Beirao Posted July 8 Report Share Posted July 8 AI certainly seems to think so ! Other "winners" beyond 1964 are also listed. Caveat lector! Reader beware! https://classicspeedwaymemories.webador.co.uk/july-2025/dangers-of-ai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotonian Posted July 8 Report Share Posted July 8 The closest they came was finishing 4th in 1937 as Belle Vue Merseysiders. https://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/1937pltable.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andout Posted July 8 Report Share Posted July 8 They say AI is the coming thing....and it is interesting, even now you can give a few pages of your life's history and AI will generate a book, story everything you need to publish it on Amazon. Then you can buy it and give it to your friends.....it is so far from accurate, obviously, but in my opinion all you are creating is yet another lie. Oh well, that is the future, they say.....pretty scary to me! But the AI generated Provincial League did make interesting reading...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted July 8 Report Share Posted July 8 AI needs to be fed the correct information. It is still very early days. When you see a mistake like the Belle Vue one, you need to correct it, then, in future, it will get it right. I have used AI a number of times in my historical research (not speedway). It is getting much better than it was. In some ways it's like Wikipedia. It's only as good as the information it is fed. It will continue to improve. It will be an amazing research tool in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnieg Posted Wednesday at 12:41 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 12:41 PM Here's what I found out thanks to chatGPT: In the modern world technology has become central to our life and computers are now ubiquitous. Are we approaching the point where a machine can pass the ‘Turing test’? [Alan Turing’s formulation of a challenge that a machine could be designed to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from a human.] The latest development in artificial intelligence – ChatGPT – is edging us closer to the time when AI output becomes indistinguishable from human responses. ChatGPT runs on a language model created by an AI research company to mimic ordinary conversation, called the Generative Pre-trained Transformer based on literally billions of pieces of information from books and the web. Could ChatGPT put columnists (like me) out of business, writing their articles for them? Let’s find out. Spoiler alert: it looks like my job is safe. I started by asking it a couple of open ended discursive questions, and it performed quite well. First it suggested the USA and Australia as target markets for future speedway GP’s and then it gave a remarkably coherent analysis of British speedway’s current problems (riders wages, ageing fan base, under investment in stadiums). I then asked ChatGPT to tell me who is the oldest rider currently active in British speedway. It replied with Scott Nicholls, born 20 June 1978, informing me correctly that he has ridden for several teams including Ipswich, Coventry and Belle Vue. That answer was correct at the time of asking (apart from the birth date which should be 16 May 1978), although Nicki Pedersen’s return to Peterborough now makes him the oldest. My next question: ‘Which speedway teams did Todd Wiltshire ride for?’ should have elicited the answer - Oxford, Reading and Wimbledon. ChatGPT failed miserably, listing ten teams including none of the correct answers! Having failed so badly at what should be a straight-forward ‘look-up the answer’ question, I tried, with some trepidation to ask it a more challenging question. ‘Are there any speedway riders who have ridden for Oxford, Reading and Swindon?’ ‘Yes, there is one … his name is Phil Morris .. rode for Reading Racers from 1987 to 1990, Swindon Robins from 1991 to 1995 and Oxford Cheetahs from 1996 to 2000.’ So a correct answer, apart from the fact that Phil was twelve in 1987 and never rode for Oxford or Swindon! Oh, and the omission of the half a dozen or so correct answers (John Davis, Malcolm Holloway, Travis McGowan, Charlie Gjedde, Glenn Cunningham, Andy Smith, Joonas Davidsson) But I couldn’t resist one last question: ‘Why were Reading Bulldogs robbed of the 2006 British speedway Elite League Championship?’ ‘The Reading Bulldogs were not robbed … in fact they won the title that year, beating Coventry Bees in the final. … according to official records and news sources, the Reading Bulldogs were the legitimate champions of the 2006 Elite League.” Well, I’m taking that as proof Reading were 2006 champions, after all it was on the internet – it must be true, mustn’t it? Article first appeared in Oxford programme 12.04.23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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