The strange hands in this image are one of several giveaways that it was generated by Midjourney Cameron Butler Image-generating artificial intelligence models like DALL-E and Midjourney often have difficulty creating human hands, with many otherwise photorealistic pictures given away by hands with the wrong number of fingers or in …
Read More »Melanie Mitchell interview: How smart is ChatGPT really – and how do we judge intelligence in AIs?
ARTIFICIAL intelligence has been all over the news in the past few years. Even so, in recent months the drumbeat has reached a crescendo, largely because an AI-powered chatbot called ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its ability to generate fluent text and confidently answer all manner of …
Read More »Capital letter test is a foolproof way of sorting AIs from humans
There is an easy way to fool ChatGPT Ascannio/Shutterstock A clever use of capital letters could be an easy way to flummox artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, letting people distinguish them from humans in conversation. The idea is reminiscent of the Turing test, first proposed by computer scientist Alan Turing in …
Read More »Massive Turing test shows we can only just tell AIs apart from humans
Who are you talking to? IR Stone/Shutterstock People can only tell apart artificial intelligences from humans around 60 per cent of the time, according to a test taken by more than 1.5 million people. The results raise questions about whether the new generation of AIs should have to identify themselves …
Read More »DeepMind AI’s new way to sort objects could speed up global computing
Sorting algorithms are a vital part of computing BEST-BACKGROUNDS/Shutterstock An algorithm used trillions of times a day around the world could run up to 70 per cent faster, thanks to an artificial intelligence created by UK-based firm DeepMind. It has found an improved way for computers to sort data that …
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