Virgin Money has apologized to a customer who was scolded by one of the bank’s chatbots after it appeared to confuse its own company’s name for an insult. In a LinkedIn post published last week, fintech commentator David Birch posted a screenshot of his interaction with a Virgin Money chatbot,
We put its chatbot to the test in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday, asking it a battery of questions on sensitive topics that are routinely the subject of censorship within China, including the so-called taboo “three Ts”: Tiananmen,
An AI chatbot backed by the French government has been taken offline shortly after it launched, after providing nonsensical answers to simple mathematical equations and even recommending that one user eat cow’s eggs.
The chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and gave vague answers 53% of the time in response to prompts, resulting in an 83% fail rate.
DeepSeek’s chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it’s an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.
OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Gov, a new version of their premiere AI models that the company hopes will be used securely by U.S. government agencies.
The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics such as Tiananmen Square.
Ryan, an AI chatbot, was the star of the Global Labour Market Conference in Riyadh, offering insights on sought-after jobs in Saudi Arabia. Built by Takamol, this advisor addressed queries in multiple languages,
The Chinese firm said training the model cost just $5.6 million. Microsoft alleges DeepSeek ‘distilled’ OpenAI’s work.
Ryan’, a star attraction at a mega-conference in Riyadh, introduces himself as a global labour market advisor, talks about highly sought-after jobs in Saudi Arabia and says politics is not his area of expertise —- except he is not human but a highly intelligent AI-based chatbot.
The Chinese chatbot and OpenAI’s new data center venture present a stark contrast for the future of AI.