From the Trump shooting to Kamala’s campaign, AI chatbots struggle to keep up with the news

President Biden is still running for re-election, President Trump hasn't been shot, and Kamala Harris is not a contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Those are some of the wacky misstatements that ChatGPT shared with me yesterday and today, prompted by my questions to it about the dizzying array of major news developments we've been bombarded with for over a week now -- which, in addition to stressing us all out, has also laid bare a salient fact about the many AI chatbots...