The Aspirin Test For AI?

US FDA Commissioner Robert Califf tells Congress that regulators don’t have to know how artificial intelligence works in medicine, but must make very sure it actually does work.

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For generations computer scientists have imagined developing a program that could pass the “Turing Test:” carry on a text-only conversation with a human evaluator and convince the human that it was a person.

In the era of ChatGPT and deepfakes, the more relevant question may become how humans interacting online can be certain...

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