OpenAI's new tool to detect AI-written text correctly spotted 26% of AI-written text, while falsely identifying 9% of human-written text as AI-written.

One way of interpreting this: AI isn't yet good enough to reliably identify AI content.

Another: The technology to detect AI text is lagging well behind the technology to produce it. And/or it turns out to be a harder problem. https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

We’re launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text.

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Breaking: Microsoft announces that Windows 2049 will issue with a fully-integrated Voight-Kampff test.

https://nautil.us/the-science-behind-blade-runners-voight_kampff-test-236837/

The Science Behind “Blade Runner”’s Voight-Kampff Test

Is Rick Deckard a replicant, an advanced bioengineered being? The jury concerning the character in 1982’s Blade Runner is still out. Harrison Ford, who plays Deckard in the film, thinks he’s human. Ridley Scott, the film’s director, is adamant that he’s not.* Hampton Fancher, the screenwriter for the original film and the sequel, Blade Runner […]

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