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AI-hallucinations, like a case last month when Google's AI summaries suggested cats had visited the moon, are a serious issue for the rapidly expanding technology.
Now researchers from Oxford University have outlined a system for flagging unreliable or inaccurate text generated by large language models. So, how does it work?
Guest: Dr Jonathan Webb, ABC Science Editor
Brainteaser (answer in the audio): If you write out the numerals from 1 to 1000, which digit occurs the most times?For more of the latest science news, look for the science section on the ABC News website and sign up to a weekly email newsletter.
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It was the art of listening that turned Heather Morris' friendship with Lale Sokolov into an international bestselling novel and television miniseries.
The author joins RN Breakfast to share the story behind 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' ahead of her upcoming appearance at the 20th International Conference on Thinking in Melbourne.
Guest: Heather Morris, author -
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The award-winning series Stuff the British Stole is back with a blockbuster second season, filmed across 11 different countries, from Kenya to Canada, Ireland to the Amazon.
Presenter Marc Fennell told RN Breakfast he's "always looking for the grey areas" when choosing what stories to tell. He says there's a moral quandary at the heart of every episode.
Guest: Marc Fennell, journalist, Stuff The British Stole presenter -
The conflict between Hamas and Israel has polarised the left and right in countries across the world, more than any other issue in recent times.
Against that backdrop, the New York Times columnist and prominent defender of Israel, Bret Stephens is in the country to give a talk hosted by the Centre for Independent Studies. He joined RN Breakfast to give his assessment on the situation.
Guest: Bret Stephens, New York Times columnistEDITOR’S NOTE:
This interview has been edited to correct a reference to the firebombing of a Palestinian-owned restaurant in 2023. Investigations by Victoria police have found no evidence the attack was religiously or racially motivated. The ABC apologies for the error.
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Former Telstra boss and nuclear physicist Ziggy Switkowski has given his backing to the Coalition's plans to build seven nuclear power plants across Australia.
Switkowski once advised the Howard government on nuclear issues - and has dismissed concerns about the high cost of building small reactors, because of their longterm value as a source of reliable power.
Guest: Ziggy Switkowski
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The ABC's new Chair, Kim Williams has begun a campaign to lobby Canberra for extra government funding, outlining his vision for the national broadcaster to be a "national campfire" that brings Australians together.He told RN Breakfast "democracy is fraying at the edges", and has urged a "much more vigorous style of engagement in fact-based exchange" in our discourse.The ABC Chair says Australians actually crave and love respectful debate and we need to see this structured into our public conversations in a much more robust way.Kim Williams says people to return to the ABC as a "safe-place" for a range of views, and perspectives freely exhibited and interrogated.
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The Coalition unveiled the seven sites of their nuclear proposal this week, but crucially as we know there's no dollar figure attached. How's it been received by voters - and in particular the communities that could be directly impacted?Political Editor for news.com.au Samantha Maiden and ABC Political lead and host of Insiders on ABC TV David Speers join RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.
Guest: David Speers, Samantha Maiden
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A key take-away from the Chinese Premier's visit to Australia was an agreement to better military relations between the two nations, in order to avoid incidents Defence Minister Richard Marles told RN Breakfast that while the defence dialogue doesn't resolve "fundamental" issues, it does "deepen" the understanding between the two nations - allowing them to avoid misunderstandings.
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The New South Wales government says it's making a once in a generation intervention to turn the affordability crisis around.
It plans to spend more than six billion dollars, much of that on new public housing.
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As governments around the country set new housing targets, experts say disputes over heritage listings are on the rise.
Those battles are spilling out beyond the inner-city and spreading to the fringe of Australia's most expensive city.
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Ambassador David Satterfield, President Biden's Gaza aid envoy told RN Breakfast that when the war in Gaza comes to a close it must confront Hamas, and present the people of Gaza "an alternate political vision".Otherwise he warns there "is no real day after" for the region, rather a "very dim, very threatening prospect" of chaos in Gaza, or a return to defacto Hamas control.
Guest: Ambassador David Satterfield, President Biden's former special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues, leading U.S diplomacy on humanitarian aid to Gaza until May. Satterfield has also served as Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey -
Rishi Sunak could be the first UK Prime Minister to lose his seat at a general election in more than 100 years, according to a new poll.
It comes as a new scandal has erupted, with a second Tory candidate under investigation for allegedly betting on the date of the next election before it was announced.
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The death toll from extreme heat among Muslim pilgrims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia continues to rise - with many hundreds dead and dozens more missing.
The ABC has been told at least one Australian has died in the heat - funeral prayers have been read for the man, though he hasn't been identified.
Guest: Yayha Adel Ibrahim is a Muslim Chaplain at Curtin University and the University of Western AustraliaStatement from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson:The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who died in Saudi Arabia. We send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time. Owing to our privacy obligations we are unable to provide further comment.
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For close to a decade Francis Greenslade's characters on Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell were a staple on our TV screens.
Now, tthe actor has turned playwright and director and is about to showcase his first original work, 'The Platypus' in Melbourne.
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This week in cinemas Guy Pearce is a preacher in 1830s New Zealand who finds himself caught between warring Maori tribes in 'The Convert'.
Also out this week is a Danish film 'The Promised Land', which The Screen Show's Jason di Rosso highly recommends.RN film critic and host of The Screen Show Jason Di Rosso joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest in cinema.
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4 million Australians have low back pain and many can experience several episodes a year.
A clinical trial by Macquarie University's Spinal Pain Research Group has found that walking can significantly reduce back pain recurring.
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If you're in the mood for a fancy wedding in Marrakesh and digging into the lives of the ultra-rich, you'll love the new novel by Kevin Kwan - author of Crazy Rich Asians. And if you want to take a tour of a Chinese ghost city, the new novel by Australian author Siang Lu might be more your pace.
Guest: Claire Nichols, host of The Book Show RECOMMENDATIONS/MENTIONS:
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Focus-group polling of Conservative leaning voters in Gippsland, found health and safety were key concerns that the Coalition will have to address if they want to sell the policy.
So, what more will the Coalition need to do to win a mandate on its nuclear poilicy?
Guest:Tony Barry is a director at the RedBridge Group and a former deputy state director of the Victorian Liberal Party -
There's been a nuclear reaction to the Opposition's policy announcement yesterday, but Charles Croucher says "more detail' on the ins and outs of the policy is needed.
The Chief Political Editor for 9News says the move is politically risky - but "maybe this is the unusual step" the Coalition and Opposition leader Peter Dutton had to take, in order to set the agenda for the next election.
The Chief Political Editor for 9News Charles Croucher joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.
Guest: Charles Croucher, Chief Political Editor for 9News
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Sports commentator and RN Breakfast legend, Warwick Hadfield brings the latest news from the world of sport.
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