Originally published in Ars Technica, Aug 1, 2023. Amid competition from TikTok, Meta looks to the next frontier of user engagement. Meta is reportedly developing a range of AI-powered chatbots with different personalities, a move aimed at increasing user engagement on social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, according to the Financial Times and The Verge. The chatbots,
Originally published in QuantaMagazine, April 13, 2023. Despite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the wrong track. For one, ANNs are...