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I, and 10,000 other reporters, have been telling you for weeks what artificial-intelligence researchers have known for years: Chatbots like the ones Google and Microsoft are building into their search engines are liars, Insider’s Adam Rogers writes.

They make stuff up. They get stuff wrong. But people still believe them. Why? Well, social scientists don’t really know why anyone believes anything, from kooky stuff they read on Twitter to closely held ideals. Add Google and Bing into the mix, and things get weirder.

We’re trained to expect the truth from search engines, and chatbots present like authoritative humans. They have what sounds like facts, but they talk about themselves in the first person (“I believe … ”).

What they say seems good enough, and according to some research, “Meh, seems fine,” is all the distance most folks are willing to go for knowledge. We all tend to avoid hard questions, and the new chatbots are here with easy answers.

Why ChatGPT is a robot con artist.

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The stock market has been flipped upside down so far in 2023. Risky assets that struggled last year are now staging a big comeback, even in the face of continued rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.

Some of the biggest losers in 2022, like bitcoin, electric-vehicle stocks, and unprofitable software companies, have soared in the first six weeks of 2023. And investor hype has made a big resurgence as artificial intelligence captures the imagination of consumers.

More on the topsy-turvy stock market.

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Nina Montée Karp and her husband and cofounder, Harvey Karp, launched the Snoo — a $1,700 high-tech bassinet — in 2016. They’ve since been hailed as visionaries. 

One current and more than a dozen former employees of Happiest Baby, the company behind Snoo, told Insider that it’s far stranger — and more poorly run — than all their glowing profiles would suggest. They described a celebrity-obsessed, gossip-fueled “surveillance state” where even the office cleaner was used to collect intel on employees.

Inside Happiest Baby’s dysfunctional culture.

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Gen Z was perhaps hit hardest during the “Great Resignation.” The youngest workers were the first on the chopping block in 2020 layoffs. And those who remained saw mentors leave and were forced to plug holes when other team members left.

Faced with those conditions, Gen Z has adapted to a new normal: When in doubt, find a new job.

How Gen Z suffers from a lack of support.

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“I was achieving something that I'd wanted more than anything for 15 years.” 

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