Faculty/School

Faculty of Science

School of Computer Science

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Centre for Data Science

Supervisors

Dr Alan Woodley
Position
Senior Lecturer Software Development
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Science

Overview

Background: Since the release of ChatGTP 3 there has been a significant interest in the output of General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI systems), which can be confused with the language of a real human. While the veracity of GenAI systems is due to their training data (and pseudo-randomness), people are using it for many things, such as relationships, health advice sometimes even cheating on university assignments.

This project would like to test how a GenAI system will work in the area of romance. The project will simulate a traditional dating show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Match_(Australian_game_show)) , where a contest asks two potential  suitors a series of questions to analyse their compitiblity, and chooses one to go on a date with. The difference is that one of the suiters is a GenAI.

Despite the set-up of a dating show, the project is very much aligned with the turning test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test). A classical computer science test to see if an average person can tell the difference between a human or a computer via their interactions.

Research engagement

The student will need to:

  1. Study research GenAI/AI and neural networks to understand how they work. The research does not have to be extensive, but enough to explain it to others.
  2. Research TV shows with similar objective (i.e. dating shows).
  3. Write the questions that the “contestant” would ask.
  4. Create software (i.e. a web interface) that connects a to a contest to the suiters and with a GenAI API.
  5. Organise participants.
  6. Perform the live experiment.
  7. Collect and analyse the results.
  8. Write up the results in a short paper.

Research activities

The student will need to prepare an initial literature review

Outcomes

A small report or paper

Skills and experience

  • Competent in web design.
  • A bit of AI (CNNs, Feedback) or the interest in learning.
  • Understanding of API would be preferable. Otherwise we can interact with the GenAI manually just using cut and paste.
  • Knowledge of some statistics (e.g. a t-test) would be preferable.

Start date

20 November, 2024

End date

20 February, 2025

Location

Gardens Point

Keywords

Contact

Alan Woodley, a.woodley@qut.edu.au