CHATBOTS are now so advanced that humans cannot reliably tell whether they are talking to other real people or not.
This is the conclusion of scientists who claim that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence has successfully passed the Turing test.
This was a test – originally called the imitation game – created by renowned British mathematician Alan Turing in 1950.
The goal was to test whether a computer was advanced enough to fool humans into thinking they were talking to other people during a conversation.
Now, scientists at the University of California San Diego have tested three computer systems — and they say OpenAI’s GPT-4 was smart enough to fool participants most of the time.
“Human participants had a 5-minute conversation with a human or an AI and judged whether or not they thought their interlocutor was human,” said Cameron Jones of UC San Diego.
“GPT-4 was considered human 54% of the time, outperforming ELIZA (22%) but falling behind real humans (67%).
“The results provide the first robust empirical demonstration that any artificial system passes a 2-player interactive Turing test.
“The results have implications for debates around machine intelligence and, more urgently, suggest that the deception of current AI systems may go unnoticed.”
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GPT-4 (or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4) is a large language model created by OpenAI.
It powers the company’s ChatGPT app, allowing you to chat with a human computer and ask questions, create images, and even speak using your voice.
It debuted on March 14, 2023, replacing the older and less powerful GPT-3.5 system.
Since then, OpenAI has introduced an even more powerful model called GPT-4o – and is already working on its next-generation replacement.
“Progress in artificial intelligence has led to systems that behave in surprisingly human-like ways,” Cameron explained.
“Big Language Models how GPT-4 not only produces fluent, naturalistic text, but also performs on par with humans on a range of language-based tasks.
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence tool
ChatGPT, launched in November 2022, was created by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, an AI research company.
It is part of a new generation of AI systems.
ChatGPT is a language model that can produce text.
It can chat, generate readable text on demand, and produce images and videos based on what it has learned from a vast database of digital books, online writings, and other media.
ChatGPT essentially works as a written dialogue between the AI system and the person asking questions
GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer and describes the type of model that can create AI-generated content.
If you request, for example, ask to “write a short poem about flowers”, it will create a piece of text based on that request.
ChatGPT can also hold conversations and even learn from what you said.
It can handle very complicated requests and is even being used by companies to help with their work.
But note that this will not always tell you the truth.
“ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in 2022.
“These systems are increasingly being deployed to interact with people on the Internet, from providing assistance as customer service agents to spreading misinformation on social media.
“As a result, people interacting anonymously online are increasingly forced to ask themselves, ‘Am I talking to a human or a machine right now?'”
Scientists described this as a “huge advance” for AI.
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The US Sun spoke to experts and wrote extensively about the difficulties of differentiating AI fakes from reality.
Progress in artificial intelligence has led to systems that behave in surprisingly human-like ways.
Cameron Jones
Deepfaked photos and videos are now extremely convincing – and often have little clue that they were fabricated.
And now AI apps can even generate convincing clones of your voice (and make you say anything) with just a few seconds of audio.
Chatbots are also becoming increasingly human-like as the language models that power them become more advanced.
It’s now more important than ever to check the context of what you’re seeing or hearing and ask yourself whether the content could be false.
Who was Alan Turing?
Here are some facts about the genius…
Alan Turing was born in June 1912 in Maida Vale, London and from an early age it was clear that he was very intelligent.
After graduating from Cambridge, he earned a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1938.
It was at Princeton that he developed the notion of a “universal computing machine” that could solve complex calculations.
This would later become known as the Turing machine, which foreshadowed the digital computer.
At Princeton, he also studied cryptological codes and ciphers that can be used to send secret messages.
Turing was invited to join the Government Codes and Cypher School, a code-breaking organization that is now known as GCHQ.
The organization moved to Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, which became the top-secret home of Britain’s codebreakers.
He was based at the famous Hut 8 and his most notable achievement at Bletchley was cracking the German ‘Enigma’ code.
Enigma was a machine used by the German armed forces to send securely encrypted messages.
Turing was awarded an OBE for his services to the country in 1945 and was appointed deputy director of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Manchester.
Turing was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain.
He was charged with gross indecency and convicted under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
He pleaded guilty and opted for chemical castration through a series of female hormone injections.
The scientist was rendered powerless and his security clearance was removed, preventing him from continuing his code-breaking work for GCHQ.
Turing died two years later of cyanide poisoning in an apparent suicide – although there have been suggestions that his death was an accident.
In 2013, he was officially pardoned thanks to a campaign supported by parliamentarians and celebrities such as Professor Stephen Hawking, Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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