Chatbots · September 2022Gaffe level: Typo
A Dating App Fought Scammers by Drowning Them in GPT-3 Bots
Filter Off quarantined suspected scammers into a Dark Dating Pool and flooded it with GPT-3 chatbots that wasted their time arguing about gift cards. The scammers eventually realized their perfect match was a large language model.
Source: Gizmodo
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice