Like pretty much everyone else in the past few months, journalists have been trying out generative AI tools like ChatGPT to see whether they can help us do our jobs better. AI software can't call sources and wheedle information out of them, but it can produce half-decent transcripts of those calls, and new generative AI tools can condense hundreds of pages of those transcripts into a summary. Writing stories is another matter, though. A few publications have tried--sometimes with disastrous results. It turns out current AI tools are very good at churning out convincing (if formulaic) copy riddled with falsehoods.

Google's AI tool Sparrow is a new generation of language models aiming to improve the capabilities of current models like ChatGPT. It is designed to be more efficient and accurate than previous models, with the ability to understand and respond to natural language input in a more human-like manner. OpenAI's ChatGPT language model is facing competition from Google's subsidiary, DeepMind, which plans to release a competing chatbot that offers improved safety features. It has the potential to replace current AI tools like ChatGPT, which is widely used for natural language processing tasks such as language translation, text generation, and chatbot development. ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI. It is trained on a wide range of internet text, allowing it to generate natural responses to various prompts.