(2 July 2024) ChatGPT-4 has become the first AI to pass a two-player Turing test, fooling human conversation partners 54% of the time. This test, proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, measures if an AI can mimic human intelligence. Researchers suggest this success might reflect more on the test’s limitations than AI’s intelligence. Find out…
(2 July 2024) Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses more than chatbots, extending into visual perception, intelligent robotics, speech recognition, natural language processing, automated programming, machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, and generative AI. These technologies revolutionize sectors like healthcare, finance, and communication by enhancing diagnostics, automation, data analysis, and user interfaces, driving innovation and efficiency. Find…
(2 July 2024) On June 26, 1974, the first product scanned with a barcode was Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The scanner, developed by Spectra-Physics, decoded the barcode at 8:01 am. This event marked the beginning of automated retail sales and inventory tracking. Find out more here.
(28 June 2024) OpenAI launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, popularizing generative AI writing and raising detection challenges. While AI writing existed before, its public accessibility was limited. Detecting AI writing involves automated, human, and hybrid approaches, each with varying effectiveness and resource requirements. Current detection methods are often unreliable, especially at scale. Find out…
(27 June 2024) Perplexity, an AI search engine startup, faces controversy after Wired’s investigation accused it of scraping content from sites that prohibit it. CEO Aravind Srinivas denied ignoring protocols and clarified that third-party providers were involved. Perplexity is also accused of using Forbes’ content without proper attribution. The startup aims for fair agreements with…
(8 Jun 2024) The recent and dramatic increase in AI-generated images is blurring the lines of what’s real and fake—and underscores the need for more tools to discern between the two. In a recent study, researchers in Italy analyzed a suite of AI models designed to identify fake images, finding these current methods to be…
(24 May 2024) More than three-quarters of researchers use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) tool in their research, despite having concerns about data security, intellectual property rights and AI’s effectiveness, a new report finds. An Oxford University Press (OUP) survey released Thursday found that 76 percent of the 2,345 respondents use an AI tool when conducting…
(22 May 2024) As the competition between artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots intensifies, researchers in China are making progress on building Chinese-language AI models. The leading Chinese offerings include ChatGLM, which comes close to ChatGPT on some capabilities and outperforms it in Chinese, according to its developers. “Basically, ChatGLM is a ChatGPT alternative,” said Jie Tang,…
(10 May 2024) A wave of AI systems have “deceived” humans in ways they haven’t been explicitly trained to do, by offering up untrue explanations for their behavior or concealing the truth from human users and misleading them to achieve a strategic end. This issue highlights how difficult artificial intelligence is to control and…
(20 Mar 2024) A surge in tools that generate text is allowing research papers to be summarized for a broad audience, and in any language. But scientists caution that major challenges remain. Mass-produced lay summaries could yield a trove of benefits. Beyond helping scientists to speed-read the literature, the synopses can be disseminated to…