The Future of Chatbots

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A professor at Texas A&M University Commerce who got a bunch of student assignments and ran them through chat GPT, like copied and pasted the students work into chat GPT. Was basically trying to check if his students had plagiarized from chat GPT in submitting their essays. He thought it was being a little clever here, you know, getting to stay one step ahead of these other members. So he takes the essays, pays submitted to chat GPT and says, did you write this? Chat GPT is not telling the truth, but it says, yes, I wrote all of these. The professor flunks his entire class, they get denied their diplomas,. It turns

A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?

Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.

Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.

Today’s Guest:

Kate Conger is a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

A lawyer used ChatGPT the same week that A.I. leaders released a 22-word statement about the existential risk A.I. poses to humanity.
The chip company Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap, powered by A.I. demand.
The podcast “Acquired” did a two-part series on the history of Nvidia.