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AI chatbots emerged as a go-to tool for holiday shoppers. What that means for our retail stocks

There’s a new shopping sidekick in town: generative AI. Looking for gift ideas and bargains, online shoppers flocked to artificial intelligence chatbots in droves this holiday season. Retailers reaped the benefits, particularly portfolio name Amazon . Clicking on a link to a retail site provided by AI increased 1,300% year over year during November and […]

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Chinese AI applications are looking to move beyond chatbots

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — A slew of releases last week demonstrate how Chinese companies such as DeepSeek and ByteDance have moved quickly with artificial intelligence models that compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now, many companies in China are increasingly building on that foundation […]

Technology

AI Hardware Is in Its ‘Put Up or Shut Up’ Era

Whether any of them will implement chatbots and agents well or in new and exciting ways is much harder to say. While the addition of AI may have been enough to garner the investment needed to build a device, it may not be enough to get people to actually buy the thing. Chatbots and AI […]

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WIRED’s 2024 Year-in-Review Quiz: From AI Slop to Human Brain Implants

2024 was another year defined by generative AI, with software features put into the hands of millions of people worldwide and unavoidably built into popular services, like Google Search. While some AI tools, like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode and Google’s NotebookLM, were delightful to interact with, the prevailing narrative remained on the technology’s inherent flaws, […]

Technology

I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping

In its initial responses, ChatGPT didn’t provide any links to products. But it easily supplied them when I asked, and while I didn’t click on every single one, none appeared to be hallucinations. Claude, on the other hand, apologized and said that it “cannot actually link to websites or products directly.” Anthropic hasn’t released a […]

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Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them

Matthew Sag, a distinguished professor at Emory University who researches copyright and artificial intelligence, concurs. Even if a user creates a bot intentionally designed to cause emotional distress, the tech platform likely can’t be sued for that. He points out that Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has long protected platforms at the […]