Character.AI and Google sued after chatbot-obsessed teen’s death
As outlined in the lawsuit, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III began using Character.AI last year, interacting with chatbots modeled after characters from The Game of Thrones, includin ...
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Google paid $2.7B to rehire AI genius who left after company refused to release his bot: report
The Washington Post via Getty Images In 2017, Shazeer and another Google colleague, De Freitas, teamed up to create Meena, a chat bot that could engage humans on a range of issues. According to ...
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Google pays $2.7 billion to bring back an old employee leading to this big debate on overspending on AI
He also championed the creation of Meena, a chatbot capable of engaging conversations, which Google ultimately shelved over safety concerns. In 2017, Shazeer teamed with a Google colleague ...
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Death by chatbot? Mother sues Character.AI, Google after son's suicide
The deceased teenager, Sewell Setzer III, was an active Character. AI user. He often chatted with bots based on characters ...
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Why Google spent $2.7 billion to bring back this former executive
It was in 2021 that Shazeer left Google frustrated after his chatbot, Meena, was shelved. There were cancers that the content that it might generate can be inappropriate. His departure was seen as ...
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Why did Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI pioneer? Who is the AI pioneer behind a $1 billion Silicon Valley startup
His earlier work on improving Google’s search engine spelling corrector also received acclaim. In 2020, Shazeer and De Freitas launched Meena, a chatbot that could engage in varied conversations.
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Why Google paid $2.7 billion to rehire 48-year-old AI genius Noam Shazeer
a chat bot that could engage humans on a range of issues. At the time, he was so confident of Meena’s utility that he predicted it would one day replace Google’s search engine. But Google ...
Why did Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI pioneer? Who is the AI pioneer behind a $1 billion Silicon Valley startup
Google has rehired Noam Shazeer for $2.7 billion, along with Daniel De Freitas, to lead its Gemini AI project. Shazeer, ...
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Inside Google's $2.7 billion deal to rehire AI genius Noam Shazeer — and why he quit in 2021
Google's official statement claims the $ ... He later teamed up with colleague Daniel De Freitas to develop a chatbot named Meena, which was designed to engage in complex conversations across ...
Google paid $2.7B to rehire AI genius who left after company refused to release his bot: report
In 2017, Shazeer and another Google colleague, De Freitas, teamed up to create Meena, a chat bot that could engage humans on ...
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Google Spends $2.7 Billion To Rehire Star AI Engineer
He then teamed up with colleague Daniel DeFreitas to build a chatbot named Meena, which he predicted could replace Google's search engine and generate trillions of dollars in revenue, the Journal ...
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Google's $2.7B rehire: AI engineer's epic comeback story
Meet Noam Shazeer, the brains behind the AI chatbot revolution who is making headlines for his epic re-hire for a whopping $2.7 billion by Google. This intriguing story not only highlights Shazeer ...