AI in the Library and Beyond

Systems like ChatGPT are enormously entertaining and even mind-bogglingly human-sounding, but they are also unreliable and could create an avalanche of misinformation
By Gary Marcus on December 19, 2022

We asked the text-generating AI ChatGPT to talk about its own flaws
By Sophie Bushwick, Madhusree Mukerjee on December 28, 2022

A professor explains why he is allowing students to incorporate ChatGPT into their writing process instead of banning the new technology
By John Villasenor on February 10, 2023

OpenAI just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program. Here’s how GPT-4 improves on its predecessor
By Sophie Bushwick on March 16, 2023

Letting the chatbot interact with the live internet will make it more useful—and more problematic, too.
by Will Knight MAR 28, 2023

Startups say Microsoft and its Bing chatbot—not just Google—are stifling competition when it comes to creating better search engines.

This study examines ChatGPT in education, among early adopters, through a qualitative instrumental case study. Conducted in three stages, the first stage of the study reveals that the public discourse in social media is generally positive and there is enthusiasm regarding its use in educational settings. However, there are also voices who are approaching cautiously using ChatGPT in educational settings. The second stage of the study examines the case of ChatGPT through lenses of educational transformation, response quality, usefulness, personality and emotion, and ethics. In the third and final stage of the study, the investigation of user experiences through ten educational scenarios revealed various issues, including cheating, honesty and truthfulness of ChatGPT, privacy misleading, and manipulation.

Author's note: This article was written by the ChatGPT chatbot, in response to prompts from MK. That human-chatbot conversation is presented here, without editing.

In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with.