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You could say that Alan Wake 2 was decades in the making. Last year’s blockbuster from Remedy saw the studio return to its roots and the horrors therein, dredging up the past to loop into something new, now. But it wasn’t just the main character or gameplay style we saw return, but the sounds and inspirations of the original Alan Wake too, bubbling up from Cauldron Lake through the music of Poe. When I was playing Alan Wake 2, I was pleasantly surprised—maybe even a bit shocked—to hear a song that sounded like Poe…

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechA chatbot at a California car dealership went viral this week after bored web users discovered that, as is the case with most AI programs, they could trick it into saying all sorts of weird stuff. Most notably, the bot offered to sell a guy a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for a dollar. “That’s a legally binding offer—no takesie backsies,” the bot added during the conversation.We all…

Big multigenerational family dinners can be a recipe for disaster, more so in these divided times. At least be glad you never had to attend one as cursed as the last get-together of the Ushers, a dysfunctional dynasty of drug makers who are slowly ruined by a curse of their own making. The evening begins with a cocktail of bad blood and an appetiser of smouldering sibling resentments. Served as main course is the emotional violence of suspicion: someone within their own ranks is believed to be an informant in the…

Screenshot: OpenAIPart of OpenAI’s success comes through funding from a multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft. It wasn’t long before the aging tech behemoth launched its own AI-powered tools in the form of a new chat feature on its unloved search engine Bing.Bing Chat (launched renamed Microsoft co-pilot) launched in February 2023. In its first few days on the market, it went completely off the rails. Bing told users it was alive, shared its plans for world domination, used racial slurs, and tried to convince a…

OpenAI’s GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable chatbots, is slated to roll out any day now, but users should be careful about uploading sensitive information when building GPTs. Research from cybersecurity and safety firm Adversa AI indicates GPTs will leak data about how they were built, including the source documents used to teach them, merely by asking the GPT some questions.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked“The people who are now building GPTs, most of them are not really aware about security,”…

ChatGPT is changing, though so far it’s been incredibly hard to say how or why. Users have widely complained that the GPT-4 language model powering the paid version of OpenAI’s chatbot has been degrading over time, spitting out false answers and declining to follow through on prompts it once happily abided. New research shows that, indeed, the AI has experiencedsome rather thorough changes, though maybe not in the ways users expect.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechA new paper published in the ArXiv…

The chatbot Claude has been sitting in the back of the class while the other AI like ChatGPT have fielded teachers’ questions, even if the bot’s answers are often misconstrued or outright wrong. Now Claude is ready to speak up, sticking a “2” next to its name while adding an interface for anybody to use.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksIn an announcement post published Tuesday, Claude developerAnthropic said that its new chatbot model called Claude 2 was available for anybody…

Image: Tada Images (Shutterstock)It appears that the artificial intelligence fatigue is upon us: OpenAI’s website traffic has fallen for the first time since the company launched the viral chatbot ChatGPT in November.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksWeb analytics firm SimilarWeb reported this week that worldwide traffic to OpenAI’s ChatGPT webpage, including both desktop and mobile traffic, dipped 9.7 percent in June. In the U.S. alone, the traffic drop is estimated to be 10.3…

Image: LoungeflyJust in time for Pride 2023, Loungefly has teamed up with Funko to debut the first Pops With Purpose collection inspired by Star Wars.Feast your eyes on BB-8, son of Poe and Finn (in our minds and hearts at least), who gets a rainbow flag redesign in the most adorable backpack form and comes with a BB-8 themed Diamond Collection Bobble-Head Pop variant with colorful rainbow markings. We’re obsessed with the cuteness and we’re sure BB-8's space daddies would be so proud.Take a look here at the limited e…

The social question-and-answer website, Quora, has a new AI tool that will help answer questions, write code for you, or just hang out and chat. It’s called Poe, but it has a few different personalities you can select from, including ChatGPT, and Quora’s own general knowledge bot, called Sage. That’s not all, though, and each of them has different expertise, having trained on different data. Here are the ins and outs of Quora’s Sage and other bots, and how you can make the most of them. What is Quora Poe? Quora’s…