Do you talk to AI when you’re feeling down? Here’s where chatbots get their therapy advice
Do you talk to AI when you’re feeling down? Here’s where chatbots get their therapy advice, explores how people increasingly turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for emotional support, sometimes treating them like low-cost therapists. While these interactions can feel helpful, the piece emphasises that AI is not a substitute for professional…
Google’s SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI ‘watermarking’ and does it work?
Google’s new SynthID tool claims to detect AI-generated content—but only if it’s made with Google’s own models. GenAI Lab Affiliate Elif Buse Doyuran and Director Jean Burgess, with T.J. Thomas (RMIT University) explain how it works & whether watermarking can meet the challenge of Generative AI authenticity…
Aaron and Kevin lead a discussion at QUT on Generative AI — its capabilities, challenges, and implications for our work and society
Dr Aaron Snoswell and Dr Kevin Witzenberger led an interactive and lively discussion for the Faculty on Generative AI — its capabilities, challenges, and implications for our work and society. Key points included: Understanding GenAI: The distinction between analytical AI (rule-based, predictive systems) and generative AI (systems that…
'Digital Fossils' Behind Bizarre AI Glitch in Scientific Papers
GenAI Lab research fellow Aaron Snoswell and Kevin Witzenberger, along with PhD student Rayane El Masri, have had their recent work featured in The Conversation. Their article, A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data, looks at the emergence of “digital fossils” and their…
Demystifying generative AI with the GenAI Lab
Last month, we hosted two workshops demystifying GenAI at both, the DMRC & ADM+S summer school. Here’s a little recap of the workshops. The Live Action Roleplay (LARP) Workshop led by Aaron Snowswell: Students were given the opportunity to step-into the transformer architecture. Inspired by the design of board games, our participants…
Dr Kevin Witzenberger – The Conversation: Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs
Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs Dr Kevin Witzenberger from the Lab and Assoc Professor Michael Richardson UNSW write in The Conversation After a year of shoehorning generative AI into its flagship products, Microsoft is trying to recoup the costs by raising prices, putting ads in…
Exploring AI Governance across Australia and Chile
Senior Research Fellow , Dr Aaron Snoswell met with the Head of International Affairs at the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile to discuss the evolving regulatory landscapes of artificial intelligence in Australia and Chile. The discussion focused on fostering global collaboration in AI governance…
Lab members successful in latest ARC Discovery round
Congratulations to the team led by Associate Professor Michelle Riedlinger who alongside the Labs Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess and Dr Aaron Snoswell were successful in the latest ARC Discovery round with the project: Generative AI and the future of academic writing and publishing. The project investigates how GenAI…
What is AI 'model collapse'? ABC Listen with Dr Aaron Snoswell
Artificial Intelligence chatbots have come such a long way in a really short time.Each release of ChatGPT brings new features, like voice chat, along with updates to the training data fed into the systems, supposed to make them smarter. But are more leaps forward a sure thing? Or could the tools actually get dumber? Dr Aaron Snoswell…
New Conversation article from Dr Aaron Snoswell on 'Model Collapse'
New Conversation article from Dr Aaron Snoswell on ‘Model Collapse‘  …
GenAI Research Catchup: 31 July 2024
This is the latest in a series of posts that will re-cap our fortnightly research catchups. We hold these meetings at the QUT Kelvin Grove campus, and they are open to anyone at QUT interested in Generative AI related research. Contact the lab (genailab@qut.edu.au) if you would like to be added to our mailing list for the meetings. Our…
Post-event: Warzones as Content, Gaza as Template
On July 25th, the Digital Media Research Centre and the GenAI Lab hosted Dr. Tom Divon from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for a thought-provoking seminar, exploring the complex interplay between social media, AI, and the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Divon, who is an Israeli based researcher and humanitarian activist, offered unique…