Black Box: The Chatbots Spirals Ep 1

Today in Focus by The Guardian

Sep 5, 202600:39:45News & Politics

Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, or is leading them to...

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