🧐 Can the Turing Question Finally Be Answered? 🔢

Kids Prefer Robots with Brains over Humans with Faulty Labels

In today’s email:

  • 🔬 Research highlights: Move Over Humans: Preschoolers Choose Robot Teachers for Accuracy

  • 🚨 Industry news: Google Teams up with Replit to Code a New Future with AI

  • ⚖️ Policy and regulation: UK Unveils 5 Principles to Guide Responsible AI Innovation

  • 🌐 AI and society: Practice Makes Perfect: How ChatGPT Became More Human Than Machine

  • 🧰 Tool of the day: Deep Nostalgia: Step Back in Time

🧸 Move Over Humans: Preschoolers Choose Robot Teachers for Accuracy 💯

According to a Concordia University study, preschoolers are likelier to learn from a competent robot than an unskilled human.

The study, which contrasted groups of three and five-year-olds, discovered that the younger children had no preference for a robot or a human. Still, the five-year-olds were more inclined to adopt a robot's language over that of a person.

It also discovered that children around five perceive robots as social agents with human-like characteristics. The study is the first to use a human and a robot as knowledge sources for children.

🤝 Google Teams up with Replit to Code a New Future with AI

Google is collaborating with Replit, a startup that assists programmers in writing code and enhancing its computer coding tools using artificial intelligence. Replit's Ghostwriter software will employ Google's AI language models to recommend code blocks, finish applications, and answer developer inquiries.

This collaboration is in reaction to a comparable product developed by Microsoft's GitHub and OpenAI. Around 20 million people are using Replit's software.

As part of the collaboration, Google will also distribute Replit's software. Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, claims that Google has much better technology than most people realize and that the alliance will help the startup win over larger corporate customers.

☝️ UK Unveils 5 Principles to Guide Responsible AI Innovation 🤖

The UK government has released its White Paper on artificial intelligence (AI), proposing five principles to guide the use of AI and retain public trust.

The principles include safety, transparency, fairness, accountability, and contestability, aiming to develop a new strategy for regulating AI to increase public trust in cutting-edge technologies and make it easier for businesses to innovate, grow, and create jobs.

The UK's growing AI industry employs over 50,000 people. It already contributes £3.7 billion to the economy. The government is committed to unleashing AI's potential throughout the economy while addressing concerns about the future threats AI could bring to people's privacy, human rights, or safety.

Moreover, the government will allow existing regulators to adopt context-specific approaches appropriate for employing AI in particular industries.

🦾 Practice Makes Perfect: How ChatGPT Became More Human Than Machine

Have you ever considered whether or not machines can think like humans? I am sure you have. Since British computer scientist Alan Turing asked it in 1950, this question has been around for nearly 70 years. “Can machines think?” The introduction of the latest chatbot, ChatGPT, has reopened this debate.

ChatGPT is a sophisticated chatbot that can write ad copy, debug computer code, and communicate on any topic, giving it an uncanny lifelike appearance. Turing envisioned an "imitation game" in which a human interrogator would have to differentiate between a computer and a human responding to questions via a "teleprinter."

The difficulty in creating a machine capable of playing this game was designing a computer capable of interpreting human words. Despite early efforts to translate languages, it wasn't until computational power increased and the internet made vast amounts of machine-readable text available that "massive data bashing" enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated models that quantified the probability of word correlations.

Chatbots evolved from this research and are now a part of our daily life. Nevertheless, the only way for a machine to play the imitation game was to emulate the human brain, which operates through artificial neural networks trained to understand and produce phrases. ChatGPT was trained on a large corpus of textual content, making it one of the best at imitation.

To achieve this, machines must become less like machines with rigid rules and more like humans. The question is whether we should fear machines or ourselves.

⏳ Deep Nostalgia: Step Back in Time

Deep Nostalgia is the groundbreaking AI technology developed by My Heritage, which infuses fresh new life into historical family photographs.

It uses next-gen technology to animate the faces in your family photos, creating a striking, lifelike effect that will make you feel as if you are witnessing your ancestors in person.

Learn more about the tool here.

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Meme of the day: The Rise of the Machines

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