Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday; plus, James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’
On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus wasn't used.
Also, James Cameron’s movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology, but that doesn't make him a fan of generative AI.
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No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is anyway
Though LLMs might not use explicitly biased language, they may infer your demographic data and display implicit biases, researchers say.
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Uber and WeRide’s robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi is officially driverless; plus, a bug in jury systems used by several US states exposed sensitive personal data
The commercial robotaxi service launched last year. Now, the human safety operator is gone.
Also, an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in a jury system made by Tyler Technologies exposed the personally identifiable data of jurors, including names, home addresses, emails, and phone numbers.
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Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat; plus, OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.
Also, startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.
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Roblox CEO interview gets heated over child safety; X’s new About This Account feature is going great; and AI is too risky to insure
-Roblox CEO Dave Baszuki joined the Hard Fork podcast to discuss the gaming platform’s new age verification feature — but he seemed to get frustrated at the number of questions focused on child safety.
-A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.
-Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
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