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May 2024
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AI just got more human, should we be afr...

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This week Chat GPT revealed the next steps in the way their AI interacts with humans. Now the interface can recognise emotions and have more nuanced conversations with the user.

Meanwhile Google has revealed its new AI assistant “Astra” and their plans to scrabble back searches previously lost to Chat GPT by integrating more AI into Google search.

But what is the cost of greater humanising of AI? And is it safe? Tech entrepreneur Ashi Bhat joins The Briefing to unpack the AI rat race.

Headlines:

Peter Dutton wants to slash immigration 

Company at the centre of major data hack revealed 

ANU and Deakin University move to shut down pro-Palestine encampments

Namatjira responds to Rinehart portrait controversy 

 

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