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Woolworths fixes "obnoxious" AI agent after customer complaints

2+ hour, 28+ min ago  (531+ words) An Australian supermarket chain had to reconfigure its AI assistant, named Olive, after customers said it kept claiming to be human and even complained about its mother. Woolworths said that it had revised its scripting in light of the complaints,…...

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BBC Audio | Thought for the Day | Catherine Pepinster

6+ hour, 22+ min ago  (323+ words) According to Professor Hannah Fry, people's lives are enriched by artificial intelligence. It makes problem-solving easier, helps medical diagnosis, and can improve productivity. Yet as she points out in her new BBC2 documentary, AI Confidential, there are risks: that jobs will…...

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How AI can read our scrambled inner thoughts

13+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1447+ words) The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that. The woman didn't move, apart from the rise and fall of her breathing " eyes fixed in concentration, hand clenched in a…...

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Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous

19+ hour, 53+ min ago  (468+ words) The AI system, called BK Assistant, compiles "friendliness scores" at the fast-food chain's locations based on employees' conversations, according to a promotional video the company shared with the BBC. The chain is currently piloting the system at 500 US restaurants, a…...

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Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (18+ words) Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demands to drop AI safeguards'BBC Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards...

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Jack Dorsey's Block cuts thousands of roles as it embraces AI

22+ hour, 56+ min ago  (503+ words) Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says his technology firm Block is laying off almost half its workforce because artificial intelligence (AI) "fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company." "Intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller…...

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Not even potholes will hold up self-driving cars, UK firm predicts

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (24+ words) Not even potholes will hold up self-driving cars, UK firm predicts'BBC Not even potholes will hold up self-driving cars, UK firm predicts...

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Say please? The best way to talk to an AI

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1160+ words) From being polite to pretending you're on Star Trek, the advice you get about talking to chatbots can be truly bizarre, and totally useless. Here's what actually works. "A lot of people think there's some magic set of words you…...

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Nuwuhe mujyi Elon Musk ashaka kubaka mu kwezi aho kubaka ku mubumbe wa Mars?

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (987+ words) Ni "umujyi wigenga" ku kwezi, ushobora kuzubakwa mu myaka itageze ku 10. Nk'uko biherutse gushyirwa ahagaragara na Elon Musk ubwe. Umuyobozi wa X, Tesla na SpaceX akaba no mu baherwe ba mbere ku isi Elon Musk, yavuze ko I kompanyi ye…...