When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. "Diversify your sources," it responds. This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 400-page report from US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Health and Human Services Department titled "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria."

We've all been there--sitting and staring at row after row of Netflix categories, trying to find something new to watch. I've browsed Netflix so much, I feel like I've scrolled for shows more than I've actually streamed them. Netflix has offered many solutions to try and help solve the video browsing blues, from the streaming's famous algorithm to the "play something" button. Now, Netflix has a new tool to help you find the perfect movie or show--and yes, AI has entered the chat, quite literally. Coming soon as a "small" opt-in only beta for the Netflix iOS app, Netflix's new AI chatbot will help you search for videos using "natural, conversational phrases" rather than just sifting through rows and rows of categories. For example, you'll be able to type "Something funny and upbeat" or "I want something scary, but not too scary" into the chat box, and Netflix's AI bot will serve up a list of suggestions, and with a comment like "Good vibes only: These comedies will leave you smiling, laughing or both."

Amazon is allegedly working on a new chatbot codenamed "Metis," Business Insider reports, citing an internal document and unnamed sources familiar with the project. It would be powered by a new AI model, Olympus, rather than Amazon's previously released Titan. With Metis, Amazon is reportedly aiming to use an approach known as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). As the company describes it, RAG "redirects the LLM to retrieve relevant information from authoritative, pre-determined knowledge sources. Organizations have greater control over the generated text output, and users gain insights into how the LLM generates the response."

Facebook and Instagram users probably weren't banging down Mark Zuckerberg's door demanding an AI chatbot, so why is this feature suddenly everywhere? The technology is still new and its utility debatable. However, the major tech companies have decided that, like voice assistants and scrollable vertical videos before it, AI is the next big thing. Now they are competing to push out their versions. Facebook and Instagram used to rely on users' friends, family and communities to keep their attention.

Mr Musk said a major advantage of Grok was that it had access to up-to-date information from the X platform, which set it apart from the launch versions of some rivals, although increasingly up-to-date responses are available for paying customers with other AI tools.

Bard is a little late to the chatbot party, but is still important because Google has spent years developing the underlying technology called LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications. This is far-out stuff: Last year, Google fired an engineer for publicly claiming LaMDA was sentient. Google says no, its AI is actually just a "prediction engine," or a very fancy version of auto-complete. It responds to a prompt by selecting, one word at a time, the words that are likely to come next.

The most high-profile of the chatbot announcements, Seattle-based Microsoft said Tuesday that it will integrate an updated software developed by OpenAI, the same company behind ChatGPT, into its search engine Bing. It didn't come as a huge surprise, since Microsoft made a multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI. The company held an invite-only event for journalists who got to try out the new "Prometheus" chat before it's released to the public. The takeaway from Semafor's Reed Albergotti: "It was a complete reorientation of Microsoft around this new breed of AI that has taken the world by storm." Google has been working on AI software behind the scenes for years, and announced this week that it plans to build a chatbot named Bard into its search function.

Keeping a VPN on at all times may cause some issues when using the internet, CyberGuy explains whether its worth the trouble. The research firm Checkpoint has confirmed that ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot created by OpenAI, is running into problems yet again. This time it has to do with malware. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Cybercriminals have now figured out a way to hack into the chatbot and overwhelm it with malware commands. The research from Checkpoint said that these cybercriminals have created their very own bots that can infiltrate OpenAI's GPT-3 API and alter its code.

Tech bros on Twitter seem really happy with how bad and evil their AI chatbots can be. One in particular, Marc Andreesen, of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, implied that recent blunders by Bing's AI chatbot, Sydney, are a positive step forward for AI. Overheard in Silicon Valley: "This thing will be President in two years." "Overheard in Silicon Valley: 'This thing will be President in two years,'" he said in a tweet. Andreesen's comment comes after reporting by the Associated Press (AP) that tested Bing's newest chatbot, Sydney.

Twenty minutes after Microsoft granted me access to a limited preview of its new chatbot interface for the Bing search engine, I asked it something you generally don't bring up with someone you just met: Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? Answering political questions wasn't one of the use cases Microsoft demonstrated at its launch event this week, where it showcased new search features powered by the technology behind startup OpenAI's ChatGPT. Microsoft executives hyping their bot's ability to synthesize information from across the web instead focused on examples like creating a vacation itinerary or suggesting the best and most budget-friendly pet vacuum. But they had, implicitly, put into high gear a race to use chatbots to upend the way people look up information online. Google also announced search upgrades this week and its own chatbot, named Bard.