Moderator Christian Sievers talks to an artificial intelligence (AI) about the opportunities and risks of using AI in the ZDF “heute-journal”.
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Mainz The Turing test, named after the computer scientist and Enigma code cracker Alan Turing, can be used to determine whether a computer has the ability to think on a human level. Or to put it more simply: whether you are talking to a human or a machine.
The female avatar Jenny, who used the ChatGPT computer program to answer presenter Christian Sievers’ questions about 30 years of the World Wide Web and the importance of artificial intelligence in the “heute-journal” on Sunday evening, would have failed this test mercilessly.
However, not because of the content of the answers, which the ChatGPT company Open AI gave to ZDF in writing. Jenny only lent them their voice and face.
However, it unmistakably sounded like synthetic speech and the facial expressions were more wooden than technically necessary. Every reasonably up-to-date car navigation speaks more fluently, and deep fake videos such as those of Vladimir Putin or Olaf Scholz impressively show what AI-supported technology is capable of these days.
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