Blender Bot, the A.I. chatbot

From Grauniad of the UK

Correctly prompted, he also dislikes Blacks and Muslims 

Blender Bot, the prototype A.I. chatbot developed by Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has a number of pet hates, presumably based on what he has read on the internet: so, Blender Bot does not like and does not use Facebook; he does not like Jews; and, last but not least, he is a fan of Donald Trump. 

Dear, oh, dear...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/blenderbot-meta-chatbot-facebook

Meet BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, that loves slamming Facebook Launched on Friday, BlenderBot is a prototype of Meta’s conversational AI, which, according to Facebook’s parent company, can converse on nearly any topic. On the demo website, members of the ... www.theguardian.com

Tesla's Self-driving Technology

 "I think there is a bug in the software package running the Tesla self-driving cars: it was meant to programme the self-drive cars to actually aim for, and run over, any kids coming into view. But it's not working up to standards, apparently, missing many of them, which is very troubling. We are going to correct this," conceded Prof. Harrison Tweak-Slasher, of Tesla, who has been working on the self-driving cars for several years. 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/tesla-self-driving-technology-safety-children

Tesla’s self-driving technology fails to detect children in the road, tests find | Tesla | The Guardian A safe-technology advocacy group issued claimed on Tuesday that Tesla’s full self-driving software represents a potentially lethal threat to child pedestrians, the latest in a series of claims ... www.theguardian.com

Programming Epson Robots

How to program Epson Robots: 

Epson RC+ Express Development Software Trial Download | Epson US

Is A.I. Over-promising Again?

 From the National Interest:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland-when-great-power-competition-meets-digital-world/what-if-machine-learning-less-it