It’s an AI-filled episode of Tech News Weekly! Is AI making us think less critically than before? Are AI chatbots accurately summarizing news? A BBC study finds that they are not. Google plans to use machine learning to estimate a user’s age. Thomson Reuters wins the first major AI copyright case within the US.
• Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week! Amanda talks about a study on how over-reliance on AI tools can lead to diminished critical thinking skills.
• Mikah shares a BBC study that looked into AI chatbots and how they performed poorly at summarizing news, with over half of the summarizations containing glaring errors.
• Emma Roth of The Verge joins the show to discuss Google utilizing machine learning to estimate users’ ages based off their browsing history and YouTube activity.
• And Mikah talks about Thomson Reuters winning the first big US AI copyright case.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guest: Emma Roth
Tech News Weekly Episode 374
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