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Chatbots · March 2023Gaffe level: Typo

ChatGPT Flunked India's Civil Services Exam After Acing Wharton

The bot that breezed through Wharton and law school stumbled on India's UPSC prelims, scoring 54 out of 100 and inventing a fifth answer option when four were not enough. It blamed the need for critical thinking.

Source: Financial Express

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AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time

Accessibility · October 2026 Kudos level: Bravo

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

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