AI bot ChatGPT has fascinated more than 100 million users around the world - as well as sparking controversy about its ability to take human jobs. But can it actually outperform human writers? We asked an experienced copywriter and ChatGPT to do exactly the same tasks - including telling a joke, explaining the synopsis of a movie and writing a short bio about a famous person. Scroll down to take the quiz. The answers are at the very bottom.

ChatGPT is listed as the author or co-author of at least 200 books on Amazon's Kindle Store, according to Reuters. However, the actual number of bot-written books is likely much higher than that since Amazon's policies don't explicitly require authors to disclose their use of AI. "I could see people making a whole career out of this," said Brett Schickler, a Rochester, NY salesman who published a children's book on the Kindle Store. "The idea of writing a book finally seemed possible." Schickler's self-published story, The Wise Little Squirrel: A Tale of Saving and Investing, is a 30-page children's story -- written and illustrated by AI -- selling for $2.99 for a digital copy and $9.99 for a printed version. Although Schickler says the book has earned him less than $100 since its January release, he only spent a few hours creating it with ChatGPT prompts like "write a story about a dad teaching his son about financial literacy."

Infants outperform artificial intelligence in detecting what motivates other people's actions, finds a new study by a team of psychology and data science researchers. Its results, which highlight fundamental differences between cognition and computation, point to shortcomings in today's technologies and where improvements are needed for AI to more fully replicate human behavior. "Adults and even infants can easily make reliable inferences about what drives other people's actions," explains Moira Dillon, an assistant professor in New York University's Department of Psychology and the senior author of the paper, which appears in the journal Cognition. "Current AI finds these inferences challenging to make." "The novel idea of putting infants and AI head-to-head on the same tasks is allowing researchers to better describe infants' intuitive knowledge about other people and suggest ways of integrating that knowledge into AI," she adds. "If AI aims to build flexible, commonsense thinkers like human adults become, then machines should draw upon the same core abilities infants possess in detecting goals and preferences," says Brenden Lake, an assistant professor in NYU's Center for Data Science and Department of Psychology and one of the paper's authors.

A few weeks ago, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, sent an email to the newsroom about clichés. To paraphrase: He wanted us to try harder to avoid them, because nobody comes to the website or the print magazine to be bored and annoyed. Did I think that this email was directed at me, personally, and that it referred to the unacceptable number of clichés in my writing? Well, he included a long list of specific words and phrases to avoid, and several of them looked … familiar. Needless to say, nonsense filler phrases such as needless to say are bound to slip into even not-lazy writing.

Whether you're using a Microsoft Windows computer or an app like Word or PowerPoint, you can get free virtual help and training through Microsoft's website, Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson reports. Chatbots are quickly becoming the way of the future, yet they still have issues. Microsoft is the latest tech company with problems with its new Bing search engine, which uses the same technology as the viral OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT. The technology is meant to answer people as a human would, though now Microsoft is putting caps on its capabilities. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Microsoft Bing is a web search engine that is owned and operated by Microsoft (pretty much their own version of Google).

Roman Yampolskiy, an AI specialist at the University of Louisville engineering school, told me he's concerned about how quickly technologists are building computers that are designed to "think" like the human brain and apply knowledge not just in one narrow area, like recommending Netflix movies, but for complex tasks that have tended to require human intelligence.

Horror movie powerhouse Blumhouse is getting into video games. The company behind hits like M3GAN, Get Out, The Purge and Insidious is opening a production and publishing division that will work on original horror games for PC, consoles and mobile. We do films, we do TV and there is this massive, growing segment in media and entertainment called gaming," Blumhouse president Abhijay Prakash told Bloomberg. "The space is hundreds of billions of dollars; we're in a great position to try and access it." As with the film side of the production company, Blumhouse Games will keep the budgets modest.

The research shows promising signs that conversational forecasting methods within the field of natural language processing could prove useful in helping both moderators and users proactively lessen vitriol and maintain healthy, productive debate forums. "Well-intentioned debaters are just human. In the middle of a heated debate, in a topic you care about a lot, it can be easy to react emotionally and only realize it after the fact," said Jonathan Chang, a doctoral student in the field of computer science. The idea is not to tell users what to say, Chang said, but to encourage users to communicate as they would in-person. The tool, named ConvoWizard, is a browser extension powered by a deep neural network.

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