Student at York uses AI chatbot to have parking ticket canceled

Image Credit: ITVX A student who used a letter penned by an artificial intelligence chatbot was successful in appealing a £60 parking fine. Millie Houlton admitted that she was tempted to pay when she received the notice from York City Council rather than take the effort to put together a response. But, the 22-year-old sent the letter to the council after asking ChatGPT to "please help me draft a letter to the council, they got me a parking ticket." The notice of fine was removed by the authority. Artificial intelligence chatbots are made to respond to queries by gathering data and rendering it realistically. Although ChatGPT appears to be thorough, its developer OpenAI has acknowledged that the program "occasionally writes plausible-sounding but wrong or illogical responses." The student claimed that the tech wrote a "beautiful letter" in response. Miss Houlton said the fine was improperly imposed because she has permission to park on her street. The York St. John University student claimed that in the final year of her degree in events and business management, she was so busy with coursework that she thought about paying the money. "I was like, 'Oh I don't need this fine, I'm a student,' but trying to express what I wanted to say was extremely challenging so I thought I'll just see if ChatGPT can do it for me," the woman added. "I entered all of my information, including the location and date of the incident, the reasons why it was improper, and my reference for the fine, and within minutes I received this flawlessly crafted personalized answer." Image Credit: ITVX The York City Council responded to her letter by stating that the fine had been removed. The chatbot's reaction, according to Miss Houlton, was "amazing" and explained the circumstance properly. It stated that I was a student, that I had paid for my permit for two years, and that I wouldn't be parking where I shouldn't on purpose. More than 100 million people have used ChatGPT since its November 2016 launch. The popular AI chatbot can write speeches, poems, marketing material, school assignments, and even computer code to react to questions in a human-like manner. To eliminate the "drudgery" of office work, Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars in it, has integrated the newest version into Bing and hopes to add it to Office programs. Image Credit: Yahoo GPT-4, the most recent iteration of the technology that runs ChatGPT, is intelligent enough to pass the bar exam taken by (human) trainee attorneys. Large internet companies like Google believe that this might be the future of how people search the web, having just introduced its own Bard chatbot last month. According to a recent study, more than 300 million jobs in Europe will at least some degree be automated in the years to come. But not everyone is astounded by how much AI has the power to improve our lives. More than 1,000 AI specialists, including Elon Musk, signed an open statement yesterday urging a six-month halt to all AI development. They claimed that as technology advances, humans do not have the necessary safeguards in place to keep us safe from it. Artificial intelligence (AI) produces errors, spreads false information, invents things, and can produce realistic, photo-like representations of things that never happened. For example, an AI-generated image of the Pope sporting a high-end white puffy jacket deceived millions of people. That could end up hurting society, and it's moving quite quickly in our direction. When she got the letter from the local authorities rescinding the fine, she stated she was "extremely relieved." Read More: Digital Detox ordered to whole Indian village, switch off TVs, phones & talk Although having used the technology for some time, Miss Houlton claimed to have started utilizing it for social gatherings, such as planning an Easter egg hunt for her running group around York. "I put in all the places I wanted to see, stated it was an Easter theme, gave me riddles, hints, and everything."