--- title: In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / In the news: tricked bots, real discov… # In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words Lesson 23 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/0/) — Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/1/) — It was reported that AI helped researchers spot faint ink in scans of the scrolls, so words could be read again for the first time in centuries. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/2/) — That is AI at its best: a patient pattern-spotter helping people do something they could not do alone. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/3/) — The same news pages also told of copied voices, fake books under real authors' names, wrong answers about elections, and the hidden people paid to check and label answers. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/4/) — And news about AI can itself exaggerate, so read past the headline and use careful words: "it was reported that", because we were not there and reports can be wrong. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/5/) — It was reported that AI helped researchers read words in ancient scrolls burned by a volcanic eruption nearly 2000 years ago, by spotting ink patterns in scans. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/6/) — It was reported that an AI beat a world champion at the board game Go, after learning by playing enormous numbers of games. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/7/) — Being brilliant at one game does not make an AI good at everything. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/8/) — It was reported that chatbots sometimes give wrong or out-of-date answers about elections; official election websites are the place to check. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/9/) — Headlines about AI can exaggerate in both directions, overhyping or overscaring, so it is wise to read beyond the headline. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/10/) — It was reported that some schools first banned chatbots and later allowed them with rules; pupils should follow their school's current rules. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/11/) — It was reported that actors went on strike (stopped working as a protest) partly over worries about AI copying their faces and voices. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/12/) — Everyone deserves control over their own face and voice. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/13/) — It was reported that a song made with a cloned voice of a famous singer went viral and was then removed, and people argued about whether copying a voice is fair. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/14/) — It was reported that AI-made books were sold online under real authors' names, harming authors and readers. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/15/) — It was reported that AI companies paid people to check and label answers, and that some of these workers saw upsetting material and were paid little. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/16/) — People help build AI, and they deserve fairness. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/17/) — "It was reported that" separates what we know ourselves from what we heard. - ← previous: [In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/) - next →: [The future: hopes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)