World's Largest Electric Plane & New Tool to Spot AI Generated Text | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

0:15 World's largest electric plane takes flight - ZeroAvia’s 19-seater plane burns green hydrogen fuel which releases only water vapour and no CO2 or other greenhouse gases. It’s a watershed moment as the world seeks to cut the environmental impact of aviation which generates around 2% of human-made CO2 emissions.

2:24 This tool can spot text generated by AI - A new tool can identify text written by ChatGPT, you input 1,000 characters of text or more, and it tells you whether the text is very unlikely, unlikely, possibly, or likely, written by AI. The classifier tool was created by ChatGPT developer OpenAI and is ‘trained’ in the tool using text on the same subject generated by both humans and AI.

The tool could help address concerns about student plagiarism. ChatGPT is a text-generating chatbot released in November 2022. It’s already being widely used in coding, journalism, and advertising. Watch the video to learn more about this tool.

4:00 More US students are studying humanities - Berkeley’s literature, philosophy, music and media departments are seeing their most applicants in a decade, while 43% more high-schoolers are applying to major in arts than 5 years ago. The University of Arizona has seen a 33% rise in humanities majors since 2016.

5:40 Why funding curiosity is vital to our future - Maria Leptin is President of the European Research Council, a public body funded by the EU to push the frontiers of fundamental research. In the 20th century, fundamental research led to the discovery of the first human cancer gene and the first chemical synthesis of penicillin. But politicians and investors must recognise that not all research will have results.

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