
A file photo of Ghahramani at the Google AI@ event on Nov 2, 2022, in New York. Google has been cautious about who gets to play with its AI advancements despite growing pressure for the internet giant to compete more aggressively with rival Microsoft. — AP
NEW YORK: Before the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was unleashed into the world, the novelist Robin Sloan was testing a similar AI writing assistant built by researchers at Google.
It didn’t take long for Sloan, author of the bestseller Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, to realise that the technology was of little use to him.
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