Category: Tech

AI assistants introduced by Derby City Council to help streamline queries to its main switchboard are only resolving half the cases they handle without human help. Digital assistants Darcie and Ali were introduced in 2023 to help website visitors and telephone callers, as part of a multi-million pound AI drive to cut costs. The technology…

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A BBC investigation revealed a simple way AI chatbots are being made to spit out misinformation to the public. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem. I did something stupid back in February. I heard there was an easy way to poison AI chatbots and make them spread lies on…

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This week, with air raid warnings wailing in the distance, Kyiv held a funeral for two sisters. 12-year-old Liubava and her 17-year-old sister Vira were among 24 civilians killed by a Russian missile which reduced their residential block to rubble earlier this month. They had already lost their father who had been fighting on the front line.…

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