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‘It’s the constitution, it’s Mabo, it’s the vibe…’: Australian lawyer’s false ChatGPT legal citations come a cropper

- February 6, 2025 2 MIN READ

AI can be useful, but it’s a long way from being as useful as a paralegal or associate when it comes to case law, as a NSW immigration lawyer found out recently, to his detriment. The lawyer, who cannot be named, has been referred to the complaints watchdog, the Office of the NSW Legal Services… Read more »

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UNSW inks OpenAI deal to keep its questions private

- December 16, 2024 2 MIN READ

UNSW Sydney will be the first Asia-Pacific university collaborating with the US-based OpenAI to deploy ChatGPT Edu. The deal will allow UNSW researchers, educators and students to use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools on a secure platform, which means academics can protect their intellectual property and keep their prompt questions private while using the generative AI… Read more »

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Apple put AI into its series 15 phones and M1 chip Macs, but please don’t call it artificial intelligence

- June 11, 2024 3 MIN READ

Apple has announced how it will integrate generative artificial intelligence into its iPhones, iPads and Macs, following months of speculation. The company’s AI system, dubbed Apple Intelligence – the company has resisted using the words artificial intelligence – was announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, California on Tuesday. Already lagging behind… Read more »

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Machine unlearning: Just 8 months after its launch, ChatGPT is getting worse at writing code and other tasks

- July 21, 2023 2 MIN READ

ChatGPT’s ability to write code has been getting worse over the last few months with the percentage of prompts that produce working code results dropping severely between March and June, a new study has found. A team of researchers from Stanford and the University of California Berkely set out to test how the large language… Read more »

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AI-generated spam is on its way to your inbox – and its secret weapon will be personalisation

- April 24, 2023 4 MIN READ

Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes. Improvements to spam filters only seem to inspire new techniques to break through the protections. Now, the arms race between spam blockers and spam senders is about to escalate with the emergence of a new weapon: generative… Read more »

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A Victorian mayor is suing ChatGPT for defamation after it said he was a convicted criminal

- April 14, 2023 3 MIN READ

An Australian council mayor may become the first person in the world to sue AI platform ChatGPT for defamation over false claims he was imprisoned over a bribery scandal. The mayor of Hepburn Shire in Victoria, Brian Hood, discovered late last year that artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT was incorrectly claiming that he had pleaded guilty… Read more »

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An ex-Googler turned AI researcher explains why its a good idea to halt AI development

- April 5, 2023 4 MIN READ

Is it time to put the brakes on the development of artificial intelligence (AI)? If you’ve quietly asked yourself that question, you’re not alone. In the past week, a host of AI luminaries signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on the development of more powerful models than GPT-4; European researchers called for… Read more »

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Is GPT-4 the gateway to human-level artificial intelligence? Well, that depends on who you ask

- April 3, 2023 4 MIN READ

Recent public interest in tools like ChatGPT has raised an old question in the artificial intelligence community: is artificial general intelligence (in this case, AI that performs at human level) achievable? An online preprint this week has added to the hype, suggesting the latest advanced large language model, GPT-4, is at the early stages of… Read more »

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Is GPT-4 a game-changer in the world of AI? Here’s what we know

- March 17, 2023 4 MIN READ

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid service. GPT-4 is a large language model (LLM), a neural network trained on massive amounts of data to understand… Read more »

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Does Microsoft’s Bing dream of electric sheep? The role of emotional AI in science fiction – and why it’s needed to address our existential dread

- March 6, 2023 3 MIN READ

Last month, Microsoft integrated its Bing search engine with Open AI’s GPT-4 chatbot, a large language model designed to interact with users in a conversational manner. Users interacting with Bing have reported flashes of emotion, ranging from sadness and existential angst through to depression and malice. The chatbot has even revealed its name: Sydney. Such… Read more »

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CrapGPT: OpenAI’s chatbot is a fantastic place to embellish your CV

- February 28, 2023 2 MIN READ

Amid concerns about students using artificial intelligence and programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to do assignments, we feel obliged to warn kids doing homework not to rely on it for biographical research. It seems one thing on the internet that the chatbot hasn’t bothered to scour for information is LinkedIn profiles, if the responses offering professional… Read more »