AI inaccuracies and misinformation

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I am trying something here because I believe this is an important article. NYT says I can “gift” ten articles per month so hopefully this works.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/technology/ai-chatbots-google-microsoft.html?unlocked_article_code=9n995YLFbi9PkzWitL15ZU0KZG8QSg4r6L86T1bSvS7EUdDUCorpgZNyajp_VZuPo5yiTeml87jZa_ue0ry0uesRplQhq-s-eEdHljjnvGyNI6MKK5FiJsHUDYpbHtz-zwmlSPMXvyI07UeuJEEzkj5_nJ37Jo5kkroZ6BrKHw7Z1JBSQWRiMuxM54Q5k8ELqTCOlhDh1oY6hmBlhesAluKNpZe-mTNDUd2CYTnUap9qrFy1Lk_B79EGrmykuhiI7qTZw_tTvCkXCi4pgVpKqK0C9ygdjCIcFOv7QOM8mv1yK_6r7sdxpYHtAKBcxCddj55ithh9rmp1KbiiPJvUQHO8SOov8SnjLAA&smid=url-share

The gist of this is that AI is not ready for prime time; many internally in Microsoft and Google have strongly opposed it on ethical and technological grounds; and the heads of MS and Google are casting all caution to the winds in the race to be the dominate force in the “next big tech.”