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Google hopes its chatbot 'Bard' will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI

Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with Bard," a conversational service apparently aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft. Bard initially will be available exclusively to a group of trusted testers" before being widely released later this year, according to a Monday blog post from Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google's chatbot is supposed to be able to explain complex subjects such as outer space discoveries in terms simple enough for a child to understand. It also claims the service will also perform other more mundane tasks, such as providing tips for planning a party, or lunch ideas based on what food is left in a refrigerator. Pichai didn't say in his post whether Bard will be able to write prose in the vein of William Shakespeare, the playwright who apparently inspired the service's name. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity," Pichai wrote Google announced Bard's existen

DCPCR launches WhatsApp chatbot to make governance citizen-friendly

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights launched its WhatsApp chatbot on Wednesday with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, terming it an important initiative to make governance citizen-friendly. The chatbot, called 'Bal Mitra', is an effort to enable two-way communication between people and the child rights panel. The chatbot will help citizens and the commission to interact more effectively, according to a government statement. Some of the features of the chatbot include complaint registration, searching information and tracking complaint status, and seeking information on admissions, among others. Along with providing authentic information on various matters related to children and their rights, the chatbot will also ensure the confidentiality of the matters reported through it. "Chatbot 'Bal Mitra', launched by the DCPCR, is a very important initiative to make governance citizen-friendly. This will serve as a source of authentic information regarding children and

DCPCR launches WhatsApp chatbot for effective communication with citizens

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights launched its WhatsApp chatbot on Wednesday, with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia calling it an important initiative. The chatbot will help citizens and commission to interact in more effective manner, said an official. Some of its uses include complaint registration, searching information and tracking complaint status. It will be used by the commission for nudge-based awareness communications to children, women, anganwadi workers, etc. Hailing the move, Sisodia said, "This is an important initiative. Children will be connected to DCPCR with the aid of technology.

OpenAI launches new tool 'AI Text Classifier' to detect AI-generated text

It requires a minimum of 1,000 characters, which is approximately 150 - 250 words and its result is not always accurate

Gupshup launches new auto bot builder powered by GPT3 to build chatbots

The company claims that the bots built by the new tool can virtually handle any natural-language query posed by the user and provide meaningful responses in almost all scenarios

ChatGPT helps hackers write malicious codes to steal your personal data

CPR shared screenshots of what they saw and warns of the fast-growing interest of hackers in ChatGPT to scale malicious activity

OpenAI to soon monetise ChatGPT platform with a paid professional version

Opened last month for the general public, ChatGPT has invited users to get feedback and learn about its strengths and weaknesses

You can't insult me by saying Biryani is tiffin: Satya Nadella to ChatGPT

Microsoft Executive Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella had a disagreement with ChatGPT and the software apologised. All this over Biriyani. ChatGPT is a popular AI-enabled software and a chat-robot. Nadella asked ChatGPT to come up with the most popular south Indian tiffin items in the future and it came up with the usual suspects - Idli, Dosa and vada. But among the options was biriyani and that seems to have left a bad taste in Nadella's mouth. He told ChatGPT that as a Hyderabadi, the software cannot insult his intelligence by calling Biriyani a South Indian 'tiffin.' And according to Nadella, the software said, "I am sorry! " And to keep the dialogue going after this, Nadella asked ChatGPT to create a play between Idli and Dosa over who was better. To add literature to the batter, Nadella asked the software to make the dialogue, a part of a Shakespearean play! Nadella was speaking at the Future Ready Technology Summit in Bengaluru on Wednesday and decided to introduce the crowd

Chatbots will do more than just chatting

Chatbots can be found on websites, messaging apps, and other platforms, and are used to provide information, answer questions, and perform tasks such as booking tickets or making reservations

Quora launches platform 'Poe' for back-and-forth dialogue with AI chatbots

Social question-and-answer website Quora has launched a platform called "Poe" that will allow users to ask questions, receive instant answers and engage in back-and-forth dialogue with AI chatbots

Smartest among them all, ChatGPT to help other bots in innovation

The free-to-use prototype has been trained on a massive amount of text data and uses deep learning algorithms to generate natural language text similar to human writing

Podcast: What is ChatGPT and why has it taken the Internet by storm?

ChatGPT, a dialogue-based AI chatbot which not just answers your questions but strikes a conversation too, has got over a million subscribers in just a week of its launch. Listen to this podcast

Elon Musk enters 'chill mode' after removing spam, bots on Twitter

When a user tweeted that "a whole bunch of accounts of people who, as far as I know, generally don't do anything but tweet memes and positivity are being suspended"

Twitter whistle-blower describes 'ticking bomb' of security gaps

Peiter Zatko, also known by his hacker name "Mudge," said Twitter was a decade behind necessary security upgrades, which he described as a "ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities

Musk can use whistleblower claims, but judge won't delay Twitter trial

Last month, whistleblower allegations provided Musk fresh ammunition to bolster what legal experts said was a long-shot attempt to walk away from the deal without paying a $1-bn termination fee

Court orders Twitter to give Musk more data on bots in battle over deal

Twitter must turn over information about 9,000 accounts it surveyed last year in hopes of identifying which had human beings attached to them: Court

Twitter reshuffles 'health' team amid spam bot, toxic content debate

The reorganization of the toxic content and spam teams "reflects our continued commitment to prioritize, and focus our teams in pursuit of our goals," a Twitter spokesperson said

Twitter avoiding to share information on bot accounts, says Elon Musk

Musk said that Twitter is avoiding sharing information on the actual number of bot and spam accounts on his platform, as his lead team sought documents from advertising technology firms working for it

Twitter has to give Elon Musk only ex-product head's data on bots: Court

Twitter needn't "collect, review, or produce documents" from any of the other 21 additional custodians Musk asked for: Court

2022 to see rise in adoption of chatbots, hiring in data analytics: Report

AI and machine learning will continue to grow in 2022