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LONDON:  Snapchat may have failed to properly assess privacy risks to children from its artificial intelligence chatbot , Britain's data watchdog said on Friday, adding it would consider the company's response before making any final enforcement decision. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said if the US company fails to adequately address the regulator's concerns, "My AI", launched in April, could be banned in the UK. "The provisional findings of our investigation suggest a worrying failure by Snap to adequately identify and assess the privacy risks to children and other users before launching 'My AI'", Information Commissioner John Edwards said. The findings do not necessarily mean the instant messaging app used largely by younger people has breached British data protection laws or that the ICO will end up issuing an enforcement notice, the regulator said. Snap said it was reviewing the ICO's notice and that i...

British officials are warning organisations about integrating artificial intelligence-driven chatbots into their businesses, saying that research has increasingly shown that they can be tricked into performing harmful tasks. In a pair of blog posts due to be published Wednesday, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said that experts had not yet got to grips with the potential security problems tied to algorithms that can generate human-sounding interactions - dubbed large language models, or LLMs. The AI-powered tools are seeing early use as chatbots that some envision displacing not just internet searches but also customer service work and sales calls. The NCSC said that could carry risks , particularly if such models were plugged into other elements organisation's Business processes. Academics and researchers have repeatedly found ways to subvert chatbot s by feeding them rogue commands or fool them into circumventing their own built-in guardrails. For examp...

Snapchat is launching new tools on its platform, including improvement to its AI chatbot, which was criticised by the Washington Post for responding in an unsafe and inappropriate manner. The company, Snap, said it had learnt that users had been trying to “trick the chatbot into providing responses that do not conform to our guidelines.” Thus, the social media platform was compelled to install more safety tools to ensure better responses. The new age filter is one of the features introduced that relays users’ birth dates so that the chatbot can respond in an appropriate manner according to their age. Snap also announced its intention to provide more insights to parents or guardians about children’s interactions with the chatbot under its Family Center which was launched last August. In its blog post, Snapchat explained that My AI chatbot is not a “real friend,” which instead relies on conversation History to improve its responses. According ...

CEO of Google Sundar Pichai has promised new updates for the company's Bard chatbot AI after receiving criticism and a lack of exciting responses to the bot. To com Pet e with ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot , Google launched its AI chatbot called Bard. It was released on March 21, however, it failed to get recognition and attention, considering the massive popularity of ChatGPT and Bing Chatbot. In a Hard Fork podcast, Pichai agreed that Google needs to work on the experimental AI chatbot . Regarding the updates, he said, "pretty soon, perhaps as this [podcast] goes live, we will be upgrading Bard to some of our more capable PaLM models, which will bring more capabilities; be it in reasoning, coding, it can answer maths questions better. So you will see progress over the course of next week". Pichai also mentioned that the reason for limited capabilities of Bard was a conscious effort as the team wanted to see their ability to handle whatever came...