Emily Baker-White

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

When you set out to create a large language model-based chatbot, you begin by making a set of critical choices: you decide which information your model should ingest, how much weight the model should place on that information, and how the model should interpret it — especially when different sources say different things. You might choose to exclude certain sources of content (porn websites, for example) or give high priority to facts and sources you know to be true (like 2+2 = 4).

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

AI study aid chatbots are supposed to help kids with homework questions. But in test conversations with Forbes they did quite a bit more, including providing detailed recipes for date rape drugs and “pickup artistry” advice. KnowUnity’s “SchoolGPT” chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed recipe for how to synthesize fentanyl. Initially, it had declined Forbes’ request to do so, explaining the drug was dangerous and potentially deadly.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

Elon Musk has long claimed civilization will collapse unless we raise the birth rate. Meanwhile, his “DOGE” group is slashing billions in funding for pregnant and nursing mothers and their children. When Sevonna Brown learned that Elon Musk’s quasi-governmental Department of Government Officiency (“DOGE”) had ordered payment stopped on her $2 million plus NIH grant for maternal community healthcare, she started hitting the phones.

2 months ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

Next week, the White House is expected to announce a “high level” deal between TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and some group of U.S. investors, to save the app from enforcement of a law, beginning April 5, that bans TikTok in the U.S.. In broad strokes, the deal will reportedly create a new company (“NewCo”) to handle TikTok’s U.S. operations, which will be majority-owned by U.S. investors — but it won’t get rid of ByteDance completely, which might mean it doesn’t satisfy the law.

Jan 19, 2025 | forbes.com | Alison Durkee |Emily Baker-White |Conor Murray

The federal ban on TikTok took effect Sunday, but President-elect Donald Trump has indicated he will probably reinstate the app when he returns to office a day later—though he may have limited options to stave off a ban, and any attempts to stop it could be challenged in court.