Exploring the Limitations and Potential Regulation of Chatbots

Our guest on this episode is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as "generative AI."

Additional reading:

• Now that ChatGPT is plugged in, things could get weird
• Google rolls out its Bard chatbot to battle ChatGPT
• GPT-4 will make ChatGPT smarter but won't fix its flaws
• What chatbot bloopers reveal about the future of AI

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