Elon Musk has apparently been thinking about starting his own AI lab to develop an alternative to chat GPT. It could be the first AI lab to run inside of a hyperloop in an underground tunnel. I think there's like a pretty good argument that at the point where this becomes just kind of a program running under your computer, you just have really wide flexibility to get it to say what you want.
Snapchat launches a chatbot. Meta plans to “turbocharge” its A.I. work. Elon Musk explores “BasedAI.” At this point, who isn’t making an A.I. play?
Plus: Is crypto finally dead? Also, a new TikTok filter is making people terrifyingly hot.
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David Yaffe-Bellany, a cryptocurrency and financial technology reporter for The New York Times.
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The science fiction and fantasy magazine “Clarkesworld” was flooded with chatbot-generated submissions. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” its editor said.