As It Happens vs. artificial intelligence: Can you tell which 2020 headlines are real? – CBC.ca

Frommysterious monolithsto invasivemurder hornets, 2020 hasbeen a weird year, with even weirder headlines.

So weird, in fact, that when Colorado research scientist Janelle Shane fed a batch of actual 2020 headlines to a language-mimicking artificialintelligence called GPT-3, it generated some truly bizarre news of its own, including:"Massive Radioactive Sinkhole Continues to Grow in Russia" and"When Killer Orchids Attack: How the Deadly Corpse Orchid Is Turning Up in U.S. Backyards."

These AI-generated headlines soundexactly like the kind of quirky stories we love to cover on our program. So we asked Shaneto feed the AI some real 2020 headlines from As It Happens, and see what it would come up with.

The computer-generated headlines were so perfectly As It Happens-esque that even our own senior producer and assistant director couldn't always tell the difference.Watch them try it:

"I think we're seeing this kind of convergence between the world is very weird, and also AI has now seen enough weird headlines that it can, to some extent, figure out the right amount of weird to be," Shane said.

Want to try it yourself? Take our quiz below and see if you can spot the difference between real As It Happens headlines, and fake onesgenerated by an artificial intelligence. (If you're having trouble accessing the quiz below, try clicking here.)

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