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Welcome to Wired's Uncanny Valley. I'm Zoe Schiffer, Wired's director of business and industry.

Today on the show, we're bringing you five stories that you need to know about this week.

And later, we'll dive into our main segment on how AI chatbots like ChatGBT

BT tend to ignore the context of the information they're absorbing.

This has led some chatbots into very, very strange places, like suggesting demonic rituals to users.

I'm joined today by Wired's senior business editor, Louise Metzakis. Luis, welcome to Uncanny Bowd.

Hi, Zoe. So our first story is one that you and I have been pretty deep and on. It's about

the AI talent wars.

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have lagged behind most of their smaller, equal-sized competitors in the

AI race. And lately, Mark has been going kind of all out to recruit top researchers from

competitive labs and kind of bring them over

to meta by offering wildly high salaries. We're talking like reportedly over $300 million

over four years, although meta has disputed these numbers. But this week, we noticed that he'd

set his sights on a smaller lab, and that is Thinking Machines.

Yeah. So Thinking Machines is the startup founded by Mir Marotti, who is the former chief

technology officer at OpenAI. And I think it's notable here that there is no product at this

startup yet.

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