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Artificial Intelligence Content Generator. A man uses a laptop to interact with AI assistant. AI offers functions like chatbot, generate images, write code, writer bot, translate and advertising. LLM.

Written by Human or Bot? Researchers Have a New Way to Tell

After the use of chatbots surged in 2023, some common words appeared much more often in the abstracts of journal papers, hinting at AI origin
The researchers warn against using chatbots in research writing: While it can compose correct English, what it says may be false, inaccurate, or confabulated. Read More ›
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Why the Turing Test Is Becoming Obsolete

Chatbots can easily pass the test without doing any thinking at all
One research team recommends replacing the Turing test (can it deceive humans?) with tests for actual reasoning skills. Read More ›
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Note to Parents: Grooming and Wokeness Are Embedded in Chatbots

With or without tuning, all AI chatbots are biased one way or another. AI without bias is like water without wet

First impressions of a person can be wrong. Further interactions can reveal disturbing personality warts. Contrary to initial impressions, we might find out they lie, they are disturbingly woke,  they can’t do simple math, their politics is on the extreme left, and they have no sense of humor or common sense.   I have just described Open AI’s GPT3 chatbot, ChatGPT. Initially, users are gobsmacked by the its performance. Its flashy prose responses to simple queries look amazing.  But become roommates with the chatbot for a few hours and its shortcomings become evident .  It can’t get its facts straight, can’t do simple math problems, hates Donald Trump, and is being groomed to be “woke.” Its performance warts are so numerous that Bradley Center Senior Fellow Gary N. Smith hoists a Read More ›