/oss/taxonomy/term/3514/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking-technology/how-spot-ai-fakes-now <p>In a recent <a href="https://variety.com/vip/sora-ai-video-confusion-human-test-survey-1235933647/">test</a>, a little over a thousand American adults were shown eight videos, and they had to choose if the video was real or if it had been completely generated by an artificial intelligence (AI). Half of the videos were real; the other half, AI generated. The results show that, on average, people couldn’t tell. As a group, they were split fifty-fifty on almost all of them.</p> Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:24:08 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9871 at /oss /oss/article/videos-history/right-chemistry-age-fake <p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-1"> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" id="media-youtube-r43gqb6udvu" width="640" height="390" title="Dr. Joe Schwarcz on the age of fake" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/r43gqb6udVU?wmode=opaque&controls=&enablejsapi=1&modestbranding=1&playerapiid=media-youtube-r43gqb6udvu&origin=https%3A//www.mcgill.ca&rel=0" name="Dr. Joe Schwarcz on the age of fake" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>Video of Dr. Joe Schwarcz on the age of fake</iframe> </div> </p> Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:10:01 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8161 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know/history-counterfeiting <p>Counterfeiting of coins has a long history. No less a personage than Isaac Newton took this bull by the horns. Late in his career he became Master of the Mint and obsessed about counterfeiters. He even designed coinage to stymie the criminals. But it was Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow University who in the 18<sup>th</sup> century uncovered one of the cleverest counterfeiting schemes. One of Black’s main contributions to chemistry was the realization that carbon dioxide was given off when calcium carbonate was heated.</p> Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 7448 at /oss