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Microsoft is ready to take its new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot mainstream, less than a week after making major fixes to stop it from going off the rails. The company said on Wednesday it is bringing the new AI technology to its Bing smartphone app, as well as the app for its Edge Internet browser, though it is still requiring people to sign up for a waitlist before using it. In the Bing mobile app, users can tap the Bing icon to start a chat session and ask various questions either in writing or using their voices, Microsoft said in a blog post. The chatbot can interact in more than 1…

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ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence tool that can write essays, poems and emails on any subject with the click of a cursor — sent shockwaves throughout the education world when it was introduced late last year. Now, its creators have built a new program that can help catch students who use the AI bot to cheat. But instead of quelling teachers’ fears, the new detection tool has been somewhat of a letdown within the technology and education worlds. Created by San Francisco-based company OpenAI, the platform identifies AI-written text accurately only a quarter of the time — and gives a false pos…

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Is the end of homework near? As new powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT take the Internet by storm, teachers concerned with AI-driven cheating are questioning their teaching and assessment methods. ChatGPT, the most powerful AI language model ever developed by the company OpenAI, is capable of generating natural-sounding text on demand, including in a specific style or in several languages, in just a few seconds. The quality of the copy it produces is sufficient to impress teachers in secondary and higher education, and even researchers. “Young or not, we are all amazed at…

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By Adnan Abidi, M. Sriram and Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The crisis engulfing the Adani Group intensified on Monday as hundreds of members of India’s opposition parties took to the streets to press for a probe into allegations by a U.S. short-seller against the conglomerate which triggered its market rout. Shares in billionaire Gautam Adani’s companies have been in free-fall since a Jan. 24 critical report by Hindenberg Research, with group cumulative market losses now topping $110 billion, sparking fears of wider financial contagion. Opposition parties, who last week called for a parlia…

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