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The (AI) Cost of Being Polite, is Artificial Intelligence Getting TOO Familiar with Users, and Robots vs. Humans. Plus, on TDIH, Hans Christian Oersted Discovers Electromagnetism.

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:17:39
Publish Date: 2025-04-21 17:30:00
Description:

Today's episode; the cost of saying “Please” and “Thank You” in your AI prompts, AI may be getting TOO familiar with us (and it’s making some people uncomfortable), and in a race of robots versus humans - how did the robots fare? Plus, on This Day in History, Hans Christian Oersted and the discovery of electromagnetism.


ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it | TechRadar

'Tens of millions of dollars well spent': Saying 'thank you', 'please' to ChatGPT costing OpenAI millions, Sam Altman says | The Business Standard

Experts have major warning to anyone who says 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT | Tyla

ChatGPT Creeps People Out by Calling Them by Name Without Being Asked | PCMag

ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' | TechCrunch

Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile | CNN

Robots run a half marathon, slowly | TechCrunch

TDIH: Scientist of the Day - Hans Christian Oersted

TDIH: Hans Christian Oersted

TDIH: Magnet Academy - Hans Christian Oersted


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