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<\/p>\nIs it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split<\/p>\n
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The detector works by analysing the \u2018outline\u2019 of a work rather than the text itself. First, it distils a text \u2014 for example, a scientific paper \u2014 into an outline, stripping it of style. Then it looks for patterns that are characteristic of either AI- or human-generated ideas, such as those in arguments and flow.<\/p>\n
The detector was able to spot AI-derived ideas 91% of the time. It \u201csurprised me that they can detect AI-written arguments\u201d from just the outlines, says Nikhil Garg, a computer scientist at Cornell Tech in New York City, who calls the detector impressive.<\/p>\n
Garg cautions that because the tool is fallible, it should not be used to judge the human authenticity of individual cases, and that the detector might become inaccurate when used on types of data that are different from those used in training. \u201cAn AI \u2018tell\u2019 in one domain may simply be good human writing in another,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n
Structural differences <\/p>\n
The group\u2019s earlier work found that human-written stories differ structurally from those written by AI and that different chatbots tend to use the same arguments when writing essays. Together this suggested that it might be possible to make a detector for AI ideas, says Rajendhran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: EvgeniyShkolenko\/Getty Researchers have developed a detector that aims to tell the difference between ideas made by humans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6112,59,4230,11376,4231,90,8360,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-computer-science","tag-gb","tag-humanities-and-social-sciences","tag-machine-learning","tag-multidisciplinary","tag-science","tag-scientific-community","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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