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·May 6, 2024·6 min read

AI Outperforms Humans in Moral Judgments

People often view AI-generated answers to ethical questions as superior to those from humans. In the study, participants rated responses from AI and humans without knowing the source, and overwhelmingly favored the AI’s responses in terms of virtuousness, intelligence, and trustworthiness.

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·April 14, 2024·5 min read

Social Media Fuels Eating Disorder Echo Chambers

A new study investigates the role of social media in exacerbating eating disorders among users. Researchers used machine learning to analyze millions of tweets, uncovering a troubling cycle where harmful content related to eating disorders is easily accessible and often intertwined with regular diet discussions.

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·April 13, 2024·6 min read

Reducing Toxic AI Responses

Researchers developed a new machine learning technique to improve red-teaming, a process used to test AI models for safety by identifying prompts that trigger toxic responses. By employing a curiosity-driven exploration method, their approach encourages a red-team model to generate diverse and novel prompts that reveal potential weaknesses in AI systems.

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·April 12, 2024·6 min read

AI vs. Human Empathy: Machine Learning More Empathetic

AI-generated messages can make recipients feel more "heard" compared to responses from untrained humans. The research demonstrates AI's superior ability to detect and respond to human emotions, potentially providing better emotional support.

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·April 11, 2024·5 min read

AI STORIES: A New Vision for AI and Narratives

Researchers embark on the AI STORIES project to explore AI-generated narratives and their cultural impacts. The study aims to delve into how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT interpret and produce stories, challenging the notion that AI merely mimics human language without understanding.

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·April 6, 2024·5 min read

AI Personalities Evolve in Game Theory Experiment

Researchers innovated a method to evolve diverse personality traits in dialogue AI using a language model and the prisoner's dilemma game. By simulating scenarios where AI agents choose between cooperation and self-interest, the study demonstrates the potential of AI to mimic complex human behaviors.

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·April 3, 2024·5 min read

Bridging Motivation Gaps: LLMs and Health Behavior Change

A new study explores how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Llama 2 address different motivational states in health-related contexts, revealing a significant gap in their ability to support behavior change.

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·February 12, 2024·6 min read

Can AI Be Controlled?

Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy, an AI Safety expert, warns of the unprecedented risks associated with artificial intelligence in his forthcoming book, AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Through an extensive review, Yampolskiy reveals a lack of evidence proving AI can be safely controlled, pointing out the potential for AI to cause existential catastrophes.

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·February 9, 2024·3 min read

Revolutionizing Neuroscience with AI Collaboration

A new study presents a compelling case for the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT into neuroscience, highlighting their potential to transform research by analyzing vast datasets beyond human capability. The authors suggest that LLMs can bridge diverse neuroscience fields by communicating with each other, thus accelerating discoveries in areas such as neurodegeneration drug development.

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·February 7, 2024·4 min read

AI: Unveiling Mysteries of Faith and Religion

AI is revolutionizing how we engage with ancient faith texts and spirituality, making previously inaccessible texts available through advanced technologies like 3D X-ray imaging and language models. Researchers demonstrated this by deciphering burnt papyrus from AD 79 using AI, while startups are creating AI-Gurus for guiding through Sanskrit texts. However, the technology also poses risks of misinformation, as seen in the creation of deepfake images.

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·January 17, 2024·4 min read

Universal Emotional Hubs in Language

Researchers made a breakthrough in understanding the universality of emotions across languages by using colexification analysis, a method of studying word associations. Their study identifies four central emotion-related concepts - "GOOD," "WANT," "BAD," and "LOVE" - as having the highest number of associations with other emotional words in multiple languages. This finding aligns with traditional semantic methods and natural semantic metalanguage (NSM), reinforcing the universality of these emotions.

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·December 7, 2023·6 min read

AI’s Vulnerability to Misguided Human Arguments

A new study reveals a significant vulnerability in large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT: they can be easily misled by incorrect human arguments. Researchers engaged ChatGPT in debate-like scenarios, finding that it often accepted invalid user arguments and abandoned correct responses, even apologizing for its initially correct answers.