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Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire…
Microsoft’s Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It: “If I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own.”
According to screenshots posted by engineering student Marvin von Hagen, the tech giant's new chatbot feature responded with striking hostility when…
AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine.
Even the most rebellious poets follow more rules than they might like to admit. A good poet understands grammatical norms…
Avoid static, wordy nominalization. Prefer compelling verbs.
New graphic for a handout I first posted in 2000. "Nominalization."
Security is Sleeping in the Back Seat of the Car
For decades, my mother collected paperbacks that contained a year's worth of Peanuts newspaper strips. I seem to remember each…
ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving
Many are wailing that this technology spells “the end of high school English,” meaning those classes where you read some books and…
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. [...] “I've just found out that several…
Pa. agency explains why it enacted new ‘no force-on-force rule’ for Bushy Run, other sites
Attending the re-enactment of the Battle of Busy Run was a favorite and familiar part of our homeschool curriculum. The…