What I’m Reading:

A study of newer, bigger versions of three major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots shows that they are more inclined to generate wrong answers than to admit ignorance when compared with previous models. The study also found that people aren’t very good at spotting the bad answers, meaning users are likely to overestimate the abilities of chatbots…

— Nicola Jones / “Bigger AI chatbots more inclined to spew nonsense — and people don’t always realize” / Nature