The first Turing Test may have been conducted at the ball in My Fair Lady. Professor Higgins has wagered with his friend, Pickering, that he can transform a flower girl into a lady through the science ...

People are now routinely using chatbots to write computer code, summarize articles and books, or solicit advice. But these chatbots are also employed to quickly generate text from scratch, with some ...

AI text detectors promise certainty in a moment when synthetic writing is everywhere, but the technology simply cannot deliver what people want from it. The tools are unreliable, easy to fool, and ...

There are several methods for detecting whether a piece of text was written by AI. They all have limitations – and probably always will. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Apps that purport to spot AI-generated text have a trust issue. The solution may be more transparency about what they find. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...

Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at the intersection of technology and the humanities, investigating how perspective can enhance, rather than overstimulate, ...

Generative artificial intelligence has set off a tremendous amount of excitement, speculation, and anxiety thanks to its ability to convincingly mimic human work, including human writing. Although a ...

The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a ...

Roger J. Kreuz is a Friend of The Conversation. Over the past few years, researchers have been exploring whether it’s even possible to distinguish human writing from artificial intelligence-generated ...