The Limerick scholar additionally gained a particular honorary prize, which can take him to the Regeneron Worldwide Science and Engineering Honest in Ohio subsequent 12 months.
Eire has scored one of many 4 second-place prizes on the EU Contest for Younger Scientists (EUCYS), one of the prestigious international science festivals, which was held on the Silesian Museum in Katowice, Poland this week.
Seán O’Sullivan, 18, from Coláiste Chiaráin, Limerick gained the BT Younger Scientist & Know-how Exhibition (BTYSTE) earlier this 12 months and certified to symbolize Eire on the EUCYS along with his venture ‘VerifyMe: A brand new strategy to authorship attribution within the post-ChatGPT period’.
AI-generated textual content might be skilled to resemble human-authorship and because of this, fashionable AI fashions are sometimes used as an alternative choice to human writing, an issue for which no clear answer has been discovered.
O’Sullivan’s venture considers the challenges of writer verification within the context of the numerous developments in massive language fashions (LLMs) resembling ChatGPT, that’s skilled on a lot of the human-made content material on the web.
Because of this, the road between human-written and AI-generated textual content has blurred, leaving academia and business looking for a dependable methodology to find out true human authorship. VerifyMe statistically analyses variations of language patterns to find out authorship.
“VerifyMe is considerably extra correct than present AI content material detection methods, with as much as triple the accuracy in adversarial circumstances the place others failed,” O’Sullivan stated.
On the occasion, O’Sullivan gained the second-place prize of €5,000 in addition to the 2025 Regeneron Worldwide Science and Engineering Honest Prize, which features a analysis journey to Ohio. “I’m completely thrilled to take house the second place prize on the competitors,” he stated.
Mari Cahalane, head of the BTYSTE, stated O’Sullivan is “an unimaginable advocate for Eire’s science, know-how, engineering and arithmetic (STEM) sector”.
Eire has a powerful monitor report on this EU competitors, having gained 17 first-place prizes over the previous 34 years. In 2022, Aditya Kumar and Aditya Joshi gained the highest prize, whereas three different BTYSTE winners – Greg Tarr, Cormac Harris and Alan O’Sullivan – took house high prizes in 2021.
Final 12 months noticed BTYSTE’s 2023 winners Shane O’Connor and Liam Carew rating a second-place prize for his or her venture titled: ‘Assessing the influence of second-level schooling on key elements of adolescents’ life and growth’.
Moreover, 2023’s SciFest STEM champion, Jack Shannon, additionally competed on this 12 months’s EUCYS, coming away with the Worldwide Swiss Expertise Discussion board Award
Functions for BTYSTE 2025 are open till 5pm on 27 September 2024 and the exhibition will happen from 8 to 11 January 2025 in Dublin.
The BT Younger Scientist & Know-how Exhibition, sponsored and organised by UK telecommunications big BT, is open to college students aged 12-19 years outdated from faculties throughout Eire.
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