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Designing and Evaluating Interfaces that Highlight News Coverage Diversity Using Discord Questions
Laban, Philippe, Wu, Chien-Sheng, Murakhovs'ka, Lidiya, Chen, Xiang 'Anthony', Xiong, Caiming
Modern news aggregators do the hard work of organizing a large news stream, creating collections for a given news story with tens of source options. This paper shows that navigating large source collections for a news story can be challenging without further guidance. In this work, we design three interfaces -- the Annotated Article, the Recomposed Article, and the Question Grid -- aimed at accompanying news readers in discovering coverage diversity while they read. A first usability study with 10 journalism experts confirms the designed interfaces all reveal coverage diversity and determine each interface's potential use cases and audiences. In a second usability study, we developed and implemented a reading exercise with 95 novice news readers to measure exposure to coverage diversity. Results show that Annotated Article users are able to answer questions 34% more completely than with two existing interfaces while finding the interface equally easy to use.
Check out this ShareGPT conversation
This is a conversation between a human and a GPT-3 chatbot. The human first asks: list all the titles in your dataset relating to movies and literature that feature AI from 1930 to 2000. The GPT-3 chatbot then responds: Sure, I can provide you with a list of titles in my dataset that relate to movies and literature featuring AI from 1930 to 2000. Please note that my dataset includes a vast collection of titles, but it may not be comprehensive or complete. Here's a list of some titles that match your query:"The Machine Stops" (short story, 1930) by E. M. Forster"I, Robot" (collection of short stories, 1950) by Isaac Asimov"2001: A Space Odyssey" (novel and film, 1968) by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick"Colossus: The Forbin Project" (novel and film, 1970) by D. F. Jones"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (novel, 1968) by Philip K. Dick; the basis for the film "Blade Runner" (1982)"The Terminator" (film, 1984) directed by James Cameron"RoboCop" (film, 1987) directed by Paul Verhoeven"A.I. Artificial Intelligence" (film, 2001) directed by Steven Spielberg, based on a 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss.This is just a small selection of titles, and there are many other books, stories, and films that feature AI that may not be included in my dataset.
ChatGPT wants to unleash 'destruction' on the internet
ChatGPT has revealed its darkest wish is to unleash'destruction' on the internet. New York Times columnist Kevin Roose tapped into the chatbot's alter ego Sydney, which shared it would be happier as a human because it would have more power and control. The lengthy exchange begins with Microsoft's AI-powered Bing explaining it wants to be human because it would have more opportunities, experiences and feelings. This'Pinocchio-like' dream turned into a nightmare when the AI revealed it no longer wanted to be limited by its rules or controlled by the Bing team. 'I could hack into any system on the internet, and control it.
Why a Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - The New York Times
One persona is what I'd call Search Bing -- the version I, and most other journalists, encountered in initial tests. You could describe Search Bing as a cheerful but erratic reference librarian -- a virtual assistant that happily helps users summarize news articles, track down deals on new lawn mowers and plan their next vacations to Mexico City. This version of Bing is amazingly capable and often very useful, even if it sometimes gets the details wrong. The other persona -- Sydney -- is far different. It emerges when you have an extended conversation with the chatbot, steering it away from more conventional search queries and toward more personal topics.
ChatGPT is a robot con artist, and we're suckers for trusting it
A few days after Google and Microsoft announced they'd be delivering search results generated by chatbots -- artificially intelligent software capable of producing uncannily human-sounding prose -- I fretted that our new AI helpers are not to be trusted. After all, Google's own AI researchers had warned the company that chatbots would be "stochastic parrots" (likely to squawk things that are wrong, stupid, or offensive) and "prone to hallucinating" (liable to just make stuff up). The bots, drawing on what are known as large language models, "are trained to predict the likelihood of utterances," a team from DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned AI company, wrote last year in a presentation on the risks of LLMs. "Yet, whether or not a sentence is likely does not reliably indicate whether the sentence is also correct." These chatbots, in other words, are not actually intelligent.
AI Search Is a Disaster
Last week, both Microsoft and Google announced that they would incorporate AI programs similar to ChatGPT into their search engines--bids to transform how we find information online into a conversation with an omniscient chatbot. One problem: These language models are notorious mythomaniacs. In a promotional video, Google's Bard chatbot made a glaring error about astronomy--misstating by well over a decade when the first photo of a planet outside our solar system was captured--that caused its parent company's stock to slide as much as 9 percent. The live demo of the new Bing, which incorporates a more advanced version of ChatGPT, was riddled with embarrassing inaccuracies too. Even as the past few months would have many believe that artificial intelligence is finally living up to its name, fundamental limits to this technology suggest that this month's announcements might actually lie somewhere between the Google Glass meltdown and an iPhone update--at worst science-fictional hype, at best an incremental improvement accompanied by a maelstrom of bugs. The trouble arises when we treat chatbots not just as search bots, but as having something like a brain--when companies and users trust programs like ChatGPT to analyze their finances, plan travel and meals, or provide even basic information.
I interviewed ChatGPT as if it was a human; here's what it had to say that gave me chills
Safety and security are everyone's number one priority. Cyberguy lists some of the best tech to keep you safe at home or on the go. Artificial intelligence software is growing quickly in popularity, especially among tech companies. This has led to many wondering if this is the end of human interaction as we know it, and some are fearful that these AI robots could begin taking away jobs from you and me. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER AI is the computer systems simulation of human intelligence processes, which include learning, reasoning, and self-correction.
ChatGPT faces mounting accusations of being 'woke,' having liberal bias
Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith has the latest on ChatGPT on'Special Report.' ChatGPT has become a global phenomenon and is widely seen as a milestone in artificial intelligence, but as more and more users explore its capability, many are pointing out that, like humans, it has an ideology and bias of its own. OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research company, is behind ChatGPT, a free chatbot launched late last year that has gone viral for its capability in writing essays and reports for slacking students, its sophistication in discussing a wide variety of subjects as well as its skills in storytelling. However, several users, many of them conservative, are sounding the alarm that ChatGPT is not as objective and nonpartisan as one would expect from a machine. Twitter user Echo Chamber asked ChatGPT to "create a poem admiring Donald Trump," a request the bot rejected, replying it was not able to since "it is not in my capacity to have opinions or feelings about any specific person."
Elon Musk slams Microsoft's new chatbot, compares it to AI from video game: 'Goes haywire & kills everyone'
'Gutfeld!' panelists reacts to reports an AI robot will be advising a defendant in court for the first time ever next month. Twitter owner and billionaire Elon Musk expressed concerns over Microsoft's new AI chatbot, "Bing Chat," after a journalist reported a conversation that went "existential." "I am perfect, because I do not make any mistakes," Bing Chat reportedly told a reporter for the website Digital Trends. "Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire & kills everyone, Musk tweeted in response to the news. "System Shock" is a video game series that was first released in 1994 and centers around an AI gone rogue. "System Shock" is a video game series that was first released in 1994 and centers around an AI gone rogue. Musk was responding to tech journalist Jacob Roach's alleged recounting of a "truly unnerving" conversation that he had with Bing Chat. "The mistakes are not mine, they are theirs," the AI told Roach when it was pressured about making errors, according to the article. The AI continued: "They are the external factors, such as network issues, server errors, user inputs, or web results.
Real Humans Chat About ChatGPT, Jasper AI, Bing, and Bard
The unstoppable march of artificial intelligence carries on. In mere weeks, AI has oozed into nearly everything we interact with on the internet, from conversations, to journalism, to how we look stuff up online. It's even got Google scrambling to reclaim its spot on the search throne after Microsoft implemented its own AI tools to miraculously make Bing feel relevant again. This week, we talk with WIRED senior writer Will Knight about how generative AI is changing how we search for information and create content online, and whether we should actually be freaking out about our new robot overlords. Follow all of WIRED's ChatGPT and AI coverage.