Tag: Chatbots

• April 16, 2024Podcast Episodes

  #98: Metaverse Madness and My Friend The Chatbot

  Ian and Michael come back to one of their favourite topics, figuring out uses for the metaverse. And, if we all end up plugged into the metaverse, would it matter if our metaverse friends and acquaintance are actually AI-generated?

• March 12, 2024Podcast Episodes

  #94: The Impatient Society and Technological Revolutions

  Ian and Michael ponder the current AI hype and whether our instant gratification society has made us all too impatient when it comes to technological breakthroughs and the speed of development. Plus, the pair discuss a recent court case where a customer service chatbot "hallucinated" a refund policy - much to the dismay of the customer when the company refused to honor the policy! Who's responsible when we've automated the human out of the loop? (This episode features AI-generated content and speech)

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  February 28, 2023Podcast Episodes

  #48: The Battle of the Large Language Models

  In this episode of the podcast, Ian and Michael dive deep into the latest developments in the world of large language models. The two discuss the launch of Google's Bard, and Microsoft's integration of OpenAI's models into their search engine Bing. But are these large language models really as useful as they seem? Ian and Michael weigh the pros and cons of relying on large language models for information retrieval and explore some of the challenges that come with using these technologies. (This description was automatically generated using ChatGPT)