it s built on google s existing language model called lamda, which one engineer described as being so human like in its responses that it was sentient. in a race to complete, chinese company baidu has announced its own a! chatbot, the ernie bot. and in the same week, microsoft has announced a new version of its search engine bing, which will include chatgpt technology. at the core of it, it s really about using natural language to ask a question. up until now, we ve been trained to ask questions in a way that we think the search engine is going to understand us. zoom, which became a household name during the pandemic, is laying off 1300 staff. this will affect about 15% of its workforce, which has seen profits fall and its user growth slow. and finally, spacex s latest mission polaris dawn will see astronauts wear garmin smartwatches to monitor the impact of space