Activision Blizzard and NetEase could not agree on a new deal to distribute video games in China, cutting millions of players from the games in January.
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Rift Between Gaming Giants Shows Toll of China’s Economic Crackdown
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Google Releases Bard, Its AI Chatbot, a Rival to ChatGPT and Bing
The New York Times – Business:The internet giant will grant users access to a chatbot after years of cautious development, chasing splashy debuts from rivals OpenAI and Microsoft.
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How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race
The New York Times – Business:The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise.
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How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the AI Race
The New York Times – Business:The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise.
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OpenAI Unveils GPT-4, Months After ChatGPT Stunned Silicon Valley
The New York Times – Business:The company unveiled new technology called GPT-4 four months after its ChatGPT stunned Silicon Valley. The update is an improvement, but it carries some of the same baggage.
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Shares in First Republic and Others Rise After Federal Bank Rescue
The New York Times – Business:First Republic, Western Alliance and PacWest Bancorp shares were set to rise on Tuesday after one of the industry’s worst stock routs in years.
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Why Do A.I. Chatbots Tell Lies and Act Weird? Look in the Mirror.
The New York Times – Business:One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence argues that chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them.
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Why A.I. Movies Couldn’t Prepare Us for Bing’s Chatbot
The New York Times – Movies:Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.
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Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT
The New York Times – Business:The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.
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Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot
The New York Times – Business:The company knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems. But users have prodded surprising and unnerving interactions.