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Why A.I. Movies Couldn’t Prepare Us for Bing’s Chatbot

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.

By A.O. Scott

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New technology, same old blind spot?

Don’t just look at what technology can do, look at what it helps people do to each other.

By Amanda Taub

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Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT

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.

By Li Yuan

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Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot

The company knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems. But users have prodded surprising and unnerving interactions.

By Karen Weise and Cade Metz