Limerick student wins young scientist award for artificial intelligence project

The BT Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year Award to Seán O'Sullivan from Colaiste Chiarain Co Limerick for his project 'VerifyMe: A new approach to authorship attribution in the post-ChatGPT era'. Picture: Fennell Photography 2023

Out of 550 projects and more than 1,100 participating students from 219 schools across Ireland, it was Seán O’Sullivan from Croom in Limerick who took home the winning prize at the 60th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

The 17-year-old fifth-year student took home the prize for his project which aims to detect the use of AI in written work, among other things.