We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature about the sycophantic nature of AI chatbots and the results should surprise no one. Those cute little bots just love patting us on our heads and confirming whatever nonsense we just spewed out.<br / [...]
Companies that pushed hardest to adopt generative AI are now contending with a problem the technology was supposed to prevent: their work is getting worse. Two articles published by Harvard Business Review this month describe a feedback loop in which AI-generated low-quality output degrades the information companies rely on to make decisions, a phenomenon the […]<br /> This story continues [...]
Microsoft is spending nearly $500 million a year on Anthropic's AI models, likely to strengthen its negotiating position with OpenAI.<br /> The article Despite OpenAI partnership, Microsoft is one of Anthropic's biggest customers appeared first on The Decoder. [...]