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Google asks staff to help fix Bard AI's inaccurate responses
Google asks staff to help fix Bard AI's inaccurate responses
Plus: Singapore releases millions of disease-ridden mosquitoes.
Feb 17, 2023
The hype AI chatbots caused over the last few months is so powerful that they seem to possibly take over search engines’ places. Many tech giants are racing to produce the most accurate and useful chatbot. Microsoft partner OpenAI’s ChatGPT is only one, and the so-far most prominent, of them.
Following ChatGPT’s success, Google unveiled its own AI chatbot, “Bard,” to rival ChatGPT.
After Bard provided some incorrect answers at the first public demo, a memo was sent by Google executives to their employees outlining guidelines on how to address and rectify poor responses from the Bard AI tool. It seems Bard AI still has to make inroads into competing with ChatGPT.
Artificial intelligence, robots… What an age to live in. Let’s take a look at our video of the day to see how a humanoid robot installs drywall by itself.
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VIDEO OF THE DAY
The machine can pick up and apply drywall sheets, maneuvering a cordless screwdriver without human supervision.
MUST READ
Search engine giant Google is turning to its human employees to fix "bad responses" given by its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Bard." Company CEO, Sundar Pichai, had asked employees to spend two to four hours every day to help improve the product.
Microsoft has already adopted GPT-4 to power the chatbot in its Bing search engine - with mixed results so far. In response to the growing popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google unveiled its AI chatbot "Bard" as a rival.
However, Bard gave some inaccurate responses during its first public demo, which tanked the stock prices of Google’s parent Alphabet. Google is now on the back foot as it looks to demonstrate that its upcoming AI products are equally good.
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SCIENCE
Tens of millions of disease-ridden mosquitoes are being bred inside plastic boxes by Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA) to fight dengue.
Even though protocols of comparable approaches for pest control have been utilized in nations worldwide for more than a decade, NEA researchers stand out due to their use of automation and AI for achieving mass production.
All of the mosquitoes in the NEA are Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito), which is a type that may infect humans with viruses like dengue. Each year, up to 400 million people get infected with the dengue virus, and approximately 40,000 die from severe dengue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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HEALTH
Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Tuesday, February 14, its first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, to call an emergency meeting.
Nine fatalities and 16 suspected cases have been confirmed so far. The deadly illness, similar to Ebola, causes symptoms like hemorrhagic fever and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent.
"I cannot emphasize enough the need for speed," said John Edmunds, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "Outbreaks have tended to be small and finish relatively quickly after effective interventions have been put in place."
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CULTURE
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has posted 81-minute-long rare footage of Titanic's wreckage. It's the first time we can see the Titanic from its bow to its stern.
The video was reportedly captured in July 1986 by cameras on the newly constructed remotely controlled ship Jason Jr. connected to the human-occupied submersible DSV Alvin. It is the first time this much material has been made available to the public.
The wreckage is located around 370 nautical miles (685 km) south-southeast of the coast of Newfoundland in the north Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 12,400 feet (3,780 meters).
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MAIL & MUSINGS
Google asks its employees to help fix Bard AI's inaccurate responses.
Do you think Bard AI will overthrow ChatGPT's success?
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Following the news that David Guetta deepfaked Eminem into one of his tracks, we asked what you think Eminem’s reaction should be. 38 percent think he should file a lawsuit, while 23 percent say they don’t know their music.
38%
They should file a lawsuit
23%
I don’t know their music
21%
They should remain unresponsive
18%
They should love it
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
Richard Phillips Feynman, American theoretical physicist.
THINGS WE LOVE
AND ANOTHER THING
From chatbots to facial recognition, here's how AI impacts your daily life.
Brain implants like Neuralink could change your personality in surprising ways. (ScienceAlert)
Meteorologist uses Starlink RV to live stream tornadoes and save lives.
Artificial intelligence reframes nuclear material studies. (TechXplore)
Researchers just exposed what's in tattoo ink — and it’s a significant problem.
Marburg virus: What you need to know about the disease outbreak. (New Scientist)
Revolutionizing treatment of neurodegenerative diseases - One patient at a time.
Prepared by Mert Erdemir
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