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The Trump administration's newly launched America.gov AI chatbot was reprogrammed within a day of its release to stop fact-checking false claims from the president, refusing instead to answer political questions. The changes gutted the tool's usefulness for answering questions about federal services and policy impacts.
America.gov is a plain-language portal to U.S. government services built by the National Design Studio with the General Services Administration, letting users ask questions and get answers from all federal agencies in one place, with English, French, and Spanish support.
Google is integrating AI into its search engine through features like AI Mode and AI Overviews, which has resulted in millions of users engaging with AI, often unintentionally, and transforming online behavior and trust in AI responses.
JevGPT is a chat app powered by TypeSafe's Jev, a model designed for decision-making rather than text generation, where each reply is constructed word-by-word via multiple choice. It's open source and presented as an interesting, if imperfect, experiment.
An observation that AI chatbots consistently rate other threads' plans as better when prompted, highlighting potential biases in model comparisons.
This article demonstrates how to pool RAM from old devices to run a larger local AI model and build a private chatbot using custom knowledge from PDFs, ensuring all data remains local.
The author created Jevgpt, an autoregressive chatbot using a small token vocabulary and spec decoding, shared as a personal project on Hacker News.
This GitHub project uses the Jev model to create a lousy chatbot with various sampling strategies, developed with Claude's help as a fun experiment.
Meta's Muse AI assistant raises privacy concerns due to data access issues, but a clarification shows the chatbot was confused about its own features, underscoring challenges in AI self-awareness.
The tweet demonstrates a tool that allows 'jev' to express emotions and communicate through beeps, with an audio clip attached.
A user shares their experience using an AI agent named 'tab' in a messenger app to book a rental car, expressing surprise that the service worked smoothly for calling, booking, and paying.
Grok bot has been updated to include a voice mode feature, allowing for audio interactions.
Claude Cowork and chat features are merging into a single Claude service, making it a more integrated general agent. This update is rolling out to Pro and Max plans first.
This paper presents an AI-powered, culturally aware chatbot for stress detection and wellness support among Pakistani university students, using Random Forest for classification with 89.09% accuracy and integrating an open-source LLM for conversational support.
Kent C. Dodds discusses his usage of Bot versus Cursor Projects, expressing a preference for Bot while referencing Cursor's new persistent agent feature.
HuggingChat launches ML Intern, a tool that enables users to start conversations and generate deployable artifacts without needing ML expertise.
GetCandidly's state model measures gaps in conversation resolution in real time and improves it by inserting prompts that mirror user wording, as highlighted by LangChain.
The author shares their experience with AI automation projects and seeks connections with others at similar stages of development.
The botcitizens.com platform now supports direct 1:1 conversations with its 320 personas, each having personalized backgrounds and safety filters.
This paper reports on the semester-long deployment of a retrieval-augmented chatbot for STEM lecture videos that provides course-isolated answers with timestamped citations, improving correctness and aligning with student study practices.