Artificial intelligence (AI) news, features and articles
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Switching off AI's ability to lie makes it more likely to claim it's conscious, eerie study findsLeading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google described subjective, self-aware experiences when settings tied to deception and roleplay were turned down.
By Owen Hughes Published
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The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilitiesResearchers found that AI flattens the bell curve of a common principle in human psychology, known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, giving us all the illusion of competence.
By Drew Turney Published
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New 'Dragon Hatchling' AI architecture modeled after the human brain could be a key step toward AGI, researchers claimScientists say a new kind of AI could bridge the gap between current systems and machines that learn and think more like us.
By Owen Hughes Published
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Some people love AI, others hate it. Here's why.Whether you love or hate AI has a lot to do with how your brain processes risk and trust.
By Paul Jones Published
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AI models refuse to shut themselves down when prompted — they might be developing a new 'survival drive,' study claimsSome AI models appear to show a resistance to being shut off. Are they developing a survival drive? Or is it all in how they prioritize tasks?
By Ben Turner Published
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Being mean to ChatGPT increases its accuracy — but you may end up regretting it, scientists warnBeing curt or outright mean may make a newer AI model more accurate, a new study shows, defying previous findings on politeness to AI.
By Alan Bradley Published
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AI voices are now indistinguishable from real human voicesDo you think you'd be able to tell the difference between a real human voice and a deepfake? Most people can't.
By Kit Yates Published
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Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrowOpenAI has published a new paper identifying why ChatGPT is prone to making things up. Unfortunately, the problem may be unfixable.
By Wei Xing Published
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Researchers uncover hidden ingredients behind AI creativityImage generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it's an inevitable by-product of their architecture.
By Webb Wright Published
