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IBM Artificial Intelligence

  • Five secretaries of state are urging Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on the social media platform X, saying in a letter sent this week that it spread election misinformation. election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington told Musk that X’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. Alabama was also mentioned.
  • A workshop covering the history of photo development processes will be held at the museum in the state capital on Saturday, March 23. The deadline to register for the class is Friday, March 22. The event website states, “Consideration of how a once intimate image viewing experience has been transformed for the distribution of countless numbers of images online will occur.”
  • Amidst a wave of controversy over using chatbots in the classroom, real robots are now taking over. Curiosity Robotics has recently launched "Aico"— a friendly robot that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help children learn English as a second language. That may not work in Alabama.