The recent flourishing of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and chatbots can mean different things to different people. Some use them as learning tools, asking questions about scientific and historical topics. Others give instructions to write lyrics or make up stories. Still more use them to write papers. But a student plagiarizing a paper is harmless […]

AI has reached the point where you can ask it practically anything and it will know the answer. But what if you’re writing a paper that needs citations? It’s not always clear where an AI gets its information from, but some make it easier than others. For example, Bing Chat always lists its sources at […]

Chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google Bard and Microsoft Bing may be revolutionary new pieces of technology, but that doesn’t mean they’re always right. In fact, it’s relatively common for AI chatbots to get facts wrong or suggest something that may not be true. While it’s safe to use these to come up with recipe ideas […]