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.<\/p>\n
\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 And Mikah talks about Thomson Reuters winning the first big US AI copyright case.<\/p>\n
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\nTech News Weekly Episode 374
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