More than half the world’s population, including India, the US and UK, will have the chance to vote for new governments in 2024 WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images THE biggest election year in the history of the world is under way, and we have just had our first glimpse at …
Read More »ChatGPT can tailor political ads to match users' personalities
Generative AI can rewrite political adverts on social media to target users with different personality types, making it easier to manipulate elections using personal data on a large scale Source link
Read More »ChatGPT wrote code that can make databases leak sensitive information
A vulnerability in Open AI’s ChatGPT – now fixed – could have been used by malicious actors Rokas Tenys/Shutterstock Researchers manipulated ChatGPT and five other commercial AI tools to create malicious code that could leak sensitive information from online databases, delete critical data or disrupt database cloud services in a …
Read More »Scientists prefer feedback from ChatGPT to judgement by peers
Peer-reviewing research is an important component of modern science PolyPloiid/Shutterstock ChatGPT can provide researchers with useful feedback on their papers, suggesting it could supplement the human peer review process that helps scientific journals decide which studies to publish. But others are sceptical that ChatGPT could play a role in peer …
Read More »ChatGPT gets better marks than students in some university courses
Students may be able to use ChatGPT to help with their university assignments, but the chatbot can lack critical analysis skills Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty Images ChatGPT may be as good as or better than students at assessments in around a quarter of university courses. However, this generally only applies …
Read More »AI news recap for July: While Hollywood strikes, is ChatGPT getting worse?
Hollywood actors are concerned about AI Jim Ruymen/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Hollywood actors strike over use of AI in films and other issues Artificial intelligence can now create images, novels and source code from scratch. Except it isn’t really from scratch, because a vast amount of human-generated examples are needed to …
Read More »How does ChatGPT work and do AI-powered chatbots “think” like us?
The current whirlwind of interest in artificial intelligence is largely down to the sudden arrival of a new generation of AI-powered chatbots capable of startlingly human-like text-based conversations. The big change came last year, when OpenAI released ChatGPT. Overnight, millions gained access to an AI producing responses that are so …
Read More »GPT-4: Is the AI behind ChatGPT getting worse?
ChatGPT is getting worse at some tasks MauriceNorbert/Alamy The AI powering ChatGPT may provide completely different answers to the same mathematical problems over time. Those findings from recent experiments have fuelled an ongoing debate about whether the AI chatbot’s performance is getting worse – and have spurred the firm behind …
Read More »ChatGPT outperforms humans at labelling some data for other AIs
ChatGPT could be used to help train other AIs Shutterstock / Iryna Imago The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT could automate some aspects of AI training that currently rely on people. The chatbot can accurately classify and label text data used in training AI at a cost of just a third …
Read More »Plagiarism tool gets a ChatGPT detector – some schools don’t want it
Turnitin’s software is used on the work of millions of students Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com Plagiarism detection software that is already screening the work of more than 62 million students worldwide is getting a major upgrade to detect AI-generated writing – though some universities say they don’t want it. This comes several months …
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