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Artificial stupidity: Google's Gemini colors history
Google's new artificial intelligence tool, Gemini, isn't allowed to generate images of people any more until programmers worked the bugs...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 24, 20242 min read
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Set a bot to monitor a bot: Is the TA hallucinating?
Are two bots better than one? Georgia Tech is hoping its old-tech AI tutoring bot will keep its new-tech AI chatbot from "hallucinating,"...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 28, 20232 min read
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What does the green light on the dock mean? Ask Gatsby
"Persona chatbots" emerging on platforms like Character.AI can let students talk to James Madison about the U.S. Constitution, writes...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 28, 20232 min read
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AI is learning to censor social media, and your taxes are paying for it
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes half a million dollars for research in technology to detect and remove...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 23, 20221 min read
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AI doesn't write well, but it's better than some students
Shakespeare it's not. However, a new artificial-intelligence technology called GPT-3, which understands and generates text, could help...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20222 min read
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