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 »ChatGPT agents are better at simulated roleplay than humans
AI agents successfully organised a Valentine’s Day party in this simulation Stanford University ChatGPT-powered AIs given long-term memory capabilities and personal motivations could role-play characters in a simulated town more believably than human crowd workers. “This idea of creating believable agents that actually exhibit this behaviour – that give the …
Read More »ChatGPT seems to be trained on copyrighted books like Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published in 1997 Zety Akhzar/Shutterstock ChatGPT and its successor GPT-4 appear to have memorised details from vast numbers of copyrighted books, posing questions about the legality of how these large language models (LLMs) are created. Both artificial intelligences were developed by private firm …
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