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Why AI Chatbots Make Things Up, and Say It With a Straight Face
A chatbot can invent a fact, a quote or an entire court case and present it with total confidence. Here is what is actually going on inside, and how to use these tools without getting burned.
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How Things Work Online How a Website Can Guess Your City Without Asking
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Digital Life Phantom Vibrations: Why You Feel Your Phone Buzz When It Didn't
You reach for your phone, certain it just buzzed, and there is nothing there. Surveys suggest most heavy phone users have felt it. Here is what researchers think is happening, and whether it is anything to worry about.
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- Why AI Chatbots Make Things Up, and Say It With a Straight Face 02 / AI Oddities
- How a Website Can Guess Your City Without Asking 01 / How Things Work Online
- Phantom Vibrations: Why You Feel Your Phone Buzz When It Didn't 03 / Digital Life
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