The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my biotech plants
by MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review— Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool helps you figure out which ones to trust. The news: Large language models are famous for their ability to make things up—in fact, it’s what they’re best at. But their inability to tell fact from fiction has left many businesses wondering if using them is worth…
MIT Technology Review—My biotech plants are dead. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Six weeks ago, I pre-ordered the “Firefly Petunia,” a houseplant engineered with genes from bioluminescent fungi so that it glows in the dark. After years of writing about…
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The Telegraph—German greens accused of lying over nuclear power safety to force plant shutdowns. Green party ministers in Germany have been accused of lying about safety issues at the country's nuclear power plants to ensure they were...