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Large language models confidently present their responses as accurate and reliable, even after they’re neither of those things. That’s why we’ve recently seen chatbots supercharge vulnerable people’s delusions, make citation mistakes in a crucial legal battle between music publishers and Anthropic, and (within the case of xAI’s Grok) rant irrationally about “white genocide.”
But it surely’s not all bad news—AI could also finally result in a greater battery life on your iPhone and solve tricky real-world problems that humans have been struggling to crack, if Google DeepMind’s latest model is any indication. And maybe most fun of all, it could mix with brain implants to assist people communicate after they have lost the power to talk.
