Chatbot

It is now safe to turn off your brain: Google CEO asked Bard to plan his dad's 80th birthday

Though he never said he went through with the idea to 'make a scrapbook'

Offbeat05 Apr 2023 | 22

Microsoft adds chatbots to Teams for the Pentagon

Yes, DoD admins, your users can ask for this now, but make sure your bots are in compliance

Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 4

Italy bans ChatGPT for 'unlawful collection of personal data'

Perché siamo il Garante, e tu sei pazzo

AI + ML31 Mar 2023 | 32

Baidu's AI chatbot ducks out of public demo

Please, let's not go all Skynet on this: Baidu has previously said ERNIE just isn't that impressive up close

AI + ML29 Mar 2023 | 5

Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping

Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway

AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 3

China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack

We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter

AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 16

LLaMA drama as Meta's mega language model leaks

Don't worry... 'The good will outweigh the bad, by at least tenfold. Probably closer to 100x'

AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 22

Google's AI search bot Bard makes $120b error on day one

'This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing process' says Choc Fact. No sh%t...

AI + ML08 Feb 2023 | 50

Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code

Chatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works

AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 67

You get the internet you deserve

Comment The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier

AI + ML06 Dec 2022 | 106

Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues

High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans

AI + ML05 Dec 2022 | 65

Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'

Stanford academics peeved over LaMDA chatbot brouhaha

AI + ML05 Aug 2022 | 114

People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO

In brief Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate?

AI + ML04 Jul 2022 | 44

Why machine-learning chatbots find it difficult to respond to idioms, metaphors, rhetorical questions, sarcasm

'Understanding the meaning of such expressions relies on shared cultural and commonsense cues' ... which machines lack, new study details

AI + ML08 Nov 2021 | 99

User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

Singapore pulls plug on 'Ask Jamie' after it also suggested polio jabs and other 'misaligned replies'

AI + ML06 Oct 2021 | 34

In a devastating blow to all eight of you, Microsoft pulls the plug on Cortana's Android, iOS apps

Chatty digital assistant can still be found on Outlook, Teams, Windows

Applications01 Apr 2021 | 32

Researchers made an OpenAI GPT-3 medical chatbot as an experiment. It told a mock patient to kill themselves

We'd rather see Dr Nick, to be honest

AI + ML28 Oct 2020 | 82

Amazon Lex can now speak British English... or simply 'English' if you're British

Alexa-derived chatbot tech allegedly understands 'the British accent', but fails to recognise that there are many

Bootnotes17 Sep 2020 | 93

Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest

Redmond will retain stake in popular chatbot service

AI + ML13 Jul 2020 | 3

Google says its latest chatbot is the most human-like ever – trained on our species' best works: 341GB of social media

Although Meena makes sense, most of the time, color us skeptical of a scoring system devised by web giant

AI + ML30 Jan 2020 | 55

What could go wrong? Redmond researchers release a blabbering bot trained on Reddit chats

But you're going to have to insert a decoder yourself as Microsoft's left the safety on this tech

AI + ML07 Nov 2019 | 23

It's possible to reverse-engineer AI chatbots to spout nonsense, smut or sensitive information

Pick one trained with salacious conversations for maximum fun

AI + ML20 Sep 2019 | 26

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

AI'm Lovin' It

AI + ML11 Sep 2019 | 35

#MeToo chatbot, built by AI academics, could lend a non-judgmental ear to sex harassment and assault victims

Prototype tries to offer help, advice to people uncomfortable discussing abuse with others

AI + ML11 Sep 2019 | 21

Hello there. You're overspending on AWS! Cloud giant introduces Chatbot for Slack chat alerts and diagnostics

Amazon Web Services' work-in-progress beta talks... but does not listen

SaaS25 Jul 2019 |

Just forget what Gartner said about AI in June 'cos CIOs are all over it now apparently

Are these the stats you were looking for? Reverse ferret by tech research giant

AI + ML21 Jan 2019 | 29

Software dev-turned-councillor launches rubbish* chatbot

*By which we mean missed bin collections, fly-tipping etc.

Bootnotes05 Sep 2018 | 40

Microsoft's Chinese chatbot inspired by images to write poetry

Xiaoice's verse is 'disgusting' say rival human poets

AI + ML15 Aug 2018 | 30

Low AI rollout caused by dumb, fashion-victim management – Gartner

We're paraphrasing

Science12 Jun 2018 | 29

What do voters want? An IRL Maybot? Sure, give that a whirl

Tory council candidate moots an even more robotic PM – for the 'more personable touch'

AI + ML18 Jan 2018 | 32

Facebook gives its 007s license to kill M, its not particularly intelligent AI

Personal assistant that needed human help gets the boot

AI + ML09 Jan 2018 | 4

IBM asks remaining staff to take career advice from HR-bot

'Myca' has staff eating cognitive dog food, which may taste better than prevailing bitterness

AI + ML14 Nov 2017 | 43

Chatbots: A load of hype or fancy lifehack for the lazy IT person?

Some of these buggers are adept at handling the mundane

AI + ML21 Sep 2017 | 10

Virtual assistant backlash imminent so buy them anyway

Say what now, Gartner?

Software17 Aug 2017 | 35

Off-messenger: Chinese chatbot ain't no commie

IM app QQ 'adjusting' bots that revealed unpatriotic sentiments

AI + ML03 Aug 2017 | 5

Facebook pulls plug on language-inventing chatbots? THE TRUTH

Far be it from us to lecture journos on overreacting but cripes – calm down

AI + ML01 Aug 2017 | 51

Facebook tried teaching bots art of negotiation – so the AI learned to lie

Given training data was real human chatter, this says more about us than anything else

AI + ML15 Jun 2017 | 25

Facebook parlays bot bet into ParlAI dialog framework

With human trainers, bots may finally get smart enough to hold complex conversations

AI + ML16 May 2017 | 1

Amazon's Alexa is worst receptionist ever: Crazy exes, stalkers' calls put through automatically

Ability to screen callers, block people Coming Soon™

Science12 May 2017 | 46

Bot you see is what you get: The cold reality of Microsoft's chat 'AI'

Build Look, it's a fancy user interface, not actual intelligence

Science11 May 2017 | 21

Another AI assistant... It's getting crowded in here, isn't it, Siri?

Analysis Amazon pushes Alexa into host of devices as teeming throng of AIs fills room

AI + ML03 May 2017 | 20

LinkedIn chatbots to help with 'important conversations'

What could possibly go wrong?

On-Prem02 May 2017 | 27

CompSci boffins find Reddit is ideal source for sarcasm database

In pleasing irony, Redditors tag their snark and make themselves ideal test subjects

AI + ML24 Apr 2017 | 36

Please don't call them Facebook chatbots, says Facebook's bot boss

F8 2017 That whole conversation-as-a-UI thing was just a big misunderstanding

AI + ML19 Apr 2017 | 21

Hell freezes over: We wrote an El Reg chatbot using Microsoft's AI

Hands on Imagine Clippy dishing out sarcastic headlines. Who wouldn't want that?

AI + ML17 Mar 2017 | 37

Facebook scales back AI flagship after chatbots hit 70% f-AI-lure rate

'The limitations of automation'

AI + ML22 Feb 2017 | 23

GitHubbers invited to hack Davis, the microservices chat bot

Talking technical with Dynatrace

Devops07 Feb 2017 | 4

'Alexa, manage my enterprise storage'

No, says Tintri, it isn’t nonsense. (Psst, want to see a demo?)

Storage31 Jan 2017 | 9

El Reg drills into chatbot hype: The AIs that want to be your web butlers

Analysis So many things to solve, eg: how can there be conversation without memory?

AI + ML18 Jan 2017 | 51

Sysadmin chatbots: We have the technology

Storage Blockhead Hey Alexa, manage my system!

Storage16 Jan 2017 | 16

‘Artificial Intelligence’ was 2016's fake news

Putting the 'AI' into FAIL

AI + ML02 Jan 2017 | 132

Hey Tintri. Mac? Rack? No, I said what's happening with my stack?

Tintri tossing out out chatbot-ready TOS automation, cloud, container support

Storage01 Nov 2016 |

Amazon: Students, we'll give you $2.5m for a chat-up, AI?

Chatbot interaction needs to be 'natural', though

AI + ML30 Sep 2016 | 6

Microsoft chatbots: Sweet XiaoIce vs foul-mouthed Tay

Cultural differences, eh?

AI + ML29 Sep 2016 | 9

Do AI chat bots need a personality bypass – or will we only trust gabber 'droids with character?

Machine-learning boffins debate making software human

AI + ML23 Sep 2016 | 28

Google's Allo chat app hits a downside to AI: Bot must hoard private messages to train itself

Stay in incognito mode to get secure texting

AI + ML22 Sep 2016 | 16