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The number of students studying languages in UK universities has plummeted in recent years but some creative thinking may help to reverse that trend.
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Intelligence agencies have been used AI for decades to help target terrorists.
Generative AI thrives on exploiting people’s reflexive assumptions of authenticity by producing material that looks like ‘the real thing.’
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, people now need to pause and wonder whether it actually hatched from an egg.
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Three things a doctor learned about ChatGPT when testing it on its ability to diagnose disease.
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Do you own a literary work that ChatGPT helped you write? Does OpenAI? The legal questions are thorny, and the answers unclear.
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AI tools could help you to learn more about investing in shares and other financial markets – but it’s not a perfect solution.
AI may make spam more pervasive than ever.
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Artificial intelligence is escalating the battle between spam senders and spam blockers. Recent advances could mean more convincing pitches to get you to click, buy and give up personal information.
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The blocking of ChatGPT in Italy raises some important questions, including how to balance access to services with the need to protect children
What does generative AI mean for the human need to create, work and seek the truth?
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Generative AI can seem like magic, which makes it both enticing and frightening. Scholars are helping society come to grips with the potential benefits and harms.
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Oral exams have a history dating back more than 2,000 years – and could once again be a solution for universities to test their students’ knowledge.
ChatGPT has generated enormous interest, but is some of its content protected under copyright law?
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We may know what ChatGPT can do, but questions remain over who owns the copyright.
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Compulsory tests, essays, regular grades and timed exams are considered a given in university life. But the Universities Accord should change this.
Language AI’s have trouble weighing potential gains and losses.
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Language model AIs are smooth talkers, but you shouldn’t rely on them to make important decisions. That’s because they have trouble telling the difference between a gain and a loss.
Words have meaning for people because we use them to make sense of the world.
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Large language models can’t understand language the way humans do because they can’t perceive and make sense of the world.
AI chatbots are designed to convincingly sustain a conversation.
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The user interfaces of AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are designed to mimic natural human conversation. But in doing so, AI chatbots present as more trustworthy than they really are.
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AI technology holds promise for education, but it will also likely exacerbate the digital divide and increase the online dominance of English.
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Governments around the world have so far taken a light-touch approach. It’s not enough if we want to address the various potential harms of AI.
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Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a six-month pause on artificial intelligence technology.
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A recent open letter calling for a temporary artificial intelligence development hiatus is more concerned with hypothetical risks about the future than the issues that are right in front of us.
The California-based startup Replika has programmed chatbots to serve as companions.
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Early research finds that people get just about the same gratification from sexting with a chatbot as they do with another human.