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Few things have developed as fast as artificial intelligence has in recent years. With AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini gaining new features and better capabilities every so often, it's ...

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OpenAI is reducing undesirable behavior in its chatbot. It saw a 65% reduction in unsatisfactory responses. The updates aim not to encourage users in crisis. After calls to publicly demonstrate how ...

In May of 2024, while I was combing through OpenAI’s “Model Spec” laying out how ChatGPT should act, one comment buried in the document struck me as peculiar. It said OpenAI was “exploring” how to let ...

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Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

How are people using AI for therapy? A growing number are sharing their anxieties, frustrations, and darkest thoughts with AI chatbots, seeking advice, comfort, and validation from a sympathetic ...

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At an OpenAI Dev Days keynote today, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is launching an SDK preview that will allow developers the ability “to build real apps inside of ChatGPT.” Altman said ...