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Bing’s Revenge + Google’s AI Faceplant

Feb 10, 2023

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Is This AI Chatbot a Homophobe?

03:30

Is Google Working on Something That Will Be Available Someday?

01:58

What's the Deal With Bias in AI?

02:38

Introduction

2min

What's Next for Tech in 2023?

2min

Microsoft Relaunches Bing Search Engine

2min

What's New With Bing?

3min

The Search Engine Part of Bing

2min

Is There a Risk of Inaccuracy in Search Engine Optimization?

3min

The New Bing Search Results Page With Blue Links

2min

Chat GPT

2min

Chat GPT

2min

10.

How Has Bing Changed the Way You Search?

2min

11.

Chat GPT

2min

12.

Is There Still Scar Tissue From Tae?

2min

13.

OpenAI

2min

14.

Open AI

3min

15.

Are You Nervous About Chat GBT?

2min

16.

The Future of Machine Learning?

2min

17.

Mattresses

2min

18.

Google's AI Chatbot, Bard

2min

19.

Google's AI Chatbot Made an Error

2min

20.

Shares an Alphabet, Google Parent Company Fall 7%

2min

21.

Chat GPT Is Not Playing in the Same League

2min

22.

Is Google Working on Something That Will Be Available Someday?

2min

23.

What's the Deal With Bias in AI?

3min

24.

The Simpsons Meets Seinfeld

2min

25.

Is This AI Chatbot a Homophobe?

4min

26.

Is There a World of Never-Ending Seinfeld?

2min

27.

Is That a Seinfeld Joke?

3min

Microsoft’s release of a ChatGPT-powered Bing signifies a new era in search. Then, a disastrous preview of Bard — Google’s answer to ChatGPT — caused the company’s stocks to slide 7 percent. The A.I. arms race is on.

Plus: What “Nothing, Forever,” the 24/7, A.I.-generated “Seinfeld” parody, says about bias in A.I.

On today’s episode:

Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI.
Kevin Scott is the chief technology officer of Microsoft.

Additional reading:

Microsoft integrated OpenAI's technology into its search engine and kicked off an A.I. arms race.
Google released Bard, a rival chatbot to ChatGPT.
“Nothing, Forever” was temporarily banned on Twitch.

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