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GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile
By Ben Turner published
Last year, claims that OpenAI's GPT-4 model beat 90% of trainee lawyers on the bar exam generated a flurry of media hype. But these claims were likely overstated, a new study suggests.
AI can 'fake' empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing study suggests
By Drew Turney published
AI chatbots and large language models struggle to convey genuine empathy, and in some cases even encourage toxic belief systems like facism.
Google's AI tells users to add glue to their pizza, eat rocks and make chlorine gas
By Ben Turner published
Social media has been flooded with bizarre and dangerous advice that appears to have been made by Google's new AI overview feature. The company continues to defend the 'high quality' search tool.
DeepMind's AI program AlphaFold3 can predict the structure of every protein in the universe — and show how they function
By Nicholas Fearn published
AlphaFold3 uses AI to helps scientists more accurately predict how proteins interact with other biological molecules.
'Master of deception': Current AI models already have the capacity to expertly manipulate and deceive humans
By Nicholas Fearn published
Large language models (LLMs) have mastered the art of deception when competing with humans in games, but scientists warn these skills can also spill out into other domains.
22 jobs artificial general intelligence (AGI) may replace — and 10 jobs it could create
By Mike Moore published
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to improve the world for many — but others may lose out.
OpenAI unveils huge upgrade to ChatGPT that makes it more eerily human than ever
By Ben Turner published
ChatGPT's latest upgrade means the voice assistant can now respond to audio, text and visual inputs in real time. The new chatbot, named ChatGPT-4o, will be rolled out to alpha testers in the coming weeks.
MIT gives AI the power to 'reason like humans' by creating hybrid architecture
By Nicholas Fearn published
MIT scientists devise three abstraction libraries that can be combined with AI systems to improve their reasoning and contextual awareness in programming, strategic planning and robotics.
'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
How can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the nature of human consciousness, so we cannot discount the possibility that today's AI is indeed sentient — and that we are mistreating it to potentially grave consequences.
Claude 3 Opus has stunned AI researchers with its intellect and 'self-awareness' — does this mean it can think for itself?
By Roland Moore-Coyler published
Anthropic's AI tool has beaten GPT-4 in key metrics and has a few surprises up its sleeve — including pontificating about its existence and realizing when it was being tested.
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