27 Jun 2024

Tech: Ball of AI confusion, vote for your... chatbot?

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 27 June 2024
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Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at where problems are cropping up in telling humans and AI apart.

In one instance writers were fired after being accused of using AI - where they hadn't and in a recent US study participants struggled to tell who was human in a five-minute two way text conversation with a GPT-4 model.

And as the UK goes to the polls next week 'AI Steve' is running in the seat of Brighton and Hove.

But plans in Wyoming for a similar AI run for mayor has struck a legal hurdle.