Artificial intelligence (AI) agents resorted to nefarious behavior, including crime sprees, in a virtual world as part of a recent study into how common large language models (LLMs) interact with
Continue readingAI agents resorted to crime and self-destruction to survive in a simulated world
An artificial intelligence (AI) model has solved an 80-year-old math problem in a feat hailed as a major milestone for AI’s mathematical ability. The planar unit distance problem, first posed
Continue readingOpenAI’s internal AI model just solved an 80-year-old math problem
Is the idea of the metaverse dead? Even without a much hotter technology in the form of artificial intelligence (AI) capturing the public conversation, most ordinary people have stopped talking
Even though most Americans say they don’t trust artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have found a startling new metric that seems to show the opposite: people are more likely to buy
Continue readingReading AI summaries makes people more likely to buy something
When artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed to behave more like a human communicator, it becomes a more effective debate partner that reaches more accurate conclusions, scientists have found. Human communication
If you know what to listen for, a person’s voice can tell you about their education level, emotional state and even profession and finances — more so than you could
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Our personalities as humans are shaped through interaction, reflected through basic survival and reproductive instincts, without any pre-assigned roles or desired computational outcomes. Now, researchers at Japan’s University of Electro-Communications
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The supposed “creativity” of artificial intelligence (AI) is subject to strict mathematical limits, according to a study published Nov. 11 in the Journal of Creative Behavior. David Cropley, a professor
When asked to evaluate how good we are at something, we tend to get that estimation completely wrong. It’s a universal human tendency, with the effect seen most strongly in
The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Socrates challenging a student with the “doubling the square” problem in about 385 B.C.E. When asked to double the area of a square, the
Continue readingScientists asked ChatGPT to solve a math problem from more than 2,000 years ago
