9 h. ago Team teaches AI models to spot misleading scientific reporting

Artificial intelligence isn't always a reliable source of information: large language models (LLMs) like Llama and ChatGPT can be prone to "hallucinating" and inventing bogus facts. But what if AI could be used to detect mistaken or distorted claims, and help people find their way more confidently through a sea of potential distortions online and elsewhere?

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35 h. ago Large language models struggle with coordination in social and cooperative games

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of the popular conversational platform ChatGPT, are now widely used by people worldwide to source information, as well as to summarize, analyze and generate texts. Studies examining the responses provided by LLMs in different scenarios could help to gain a deeper understanding of their tendencies during social interactions, which could fuel their future advancement.

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3 d. ago Dark LLMs: It's still easy to trick most AI chatbots into providing harmful information, study finds

A group of AI researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel, has found that despite efforts by large language model (LLM) makers, most commonly available chatbots are still easily tricked into generating harmful and sometimes illegal information.

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6 d. ago Large language model accurately predicts online chat derailments

Online chat rooms and social networking platforms frequently experience harmful behavior as discussions drift from their intended topics toward personal conflict. Traditional predictive models typically depend on platform-specific data, limiting their applicability and increasing implementation costs.

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8 d. ago Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.

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2 w. ago Can generative AI replace humans in qualitative research studies?

Having humans participate in a study can be time-consuming and expensive for researchers stretching limited budgets on strict deadlines. Sophisticated, generative large language models (LLM) can complete many tasks, so some researchers and companies have explored the idea of using them in studies instead of human participants.

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2 w. ago Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise

A new system that combines Gemini’s coding abilities with an evolutionary approach  improves datacenter scheduling, chip design, and fine-tune large language models.

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2 w. ago Steering AI: New technique offers more control over large language models

Imagine developing a finer control knob for artificial intelligence (AI) applications like Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT.

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2 w. ago Like humans, ChatGPT favors examples and 'memories,' not rules, to generate language

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has found that large language models (LLMs)—the AI systems behind chatbots like ChatGPT—generalize language patterns in a surprisingly human-like way: through analogy, rather than strict grammatical rules.

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2 w. ago LegoGPT can design stable structures using standard LEGOs from text prompts

A team of engineers and AI specialists at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an AI application that can design stable structures from standard LEGOs using text prompts. In their study published on the arXiv preprint server, the group repurposed a large language model (LLM) created by META to build their new system.

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2 w. ago Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so

Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.

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3 w. ago Commentary on article on coding hate speech offers nuanced look at limits of AI systems

Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can understand and generate human language by analyzing and processing large amounts of text. In a new essay, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher critiques an article on LLMs and provides a nuanced look at the models' limits for analyzing sensitive discourse, such as hate speech. The commentary is published in the Journal of Multicultural Discourses.

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3 w. ago Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams

Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant is going to start using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on desktop to protect users against online scams. It’s also launching new AI-powered warnings for Chrome on Android to help users be […]

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3 w. ago Gender, nationality can influence suspicion of using AI in freelance writing

With the development of AI writing assistants like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, large language models (LLMs) are now used in various writing professions to generate ideas and work more efficiently.

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3 w. ago New chip uses AI to shrink large language models' energy footprint by 50%

Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers have developed a more efficient chip as an antidote to the vast amounts of electricity consumed by large-language-model artificial intelligence applications like Gemini and GPT-4.

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4 w. ago Reinforcement learning boosts reasoning skills in new diffusion

A team of AI researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with a colleague from Meta AI, has introduced d1, a diffusion-large-language-model-based framework that has been improved through the use of reinforcement learning. The group posted a paper describing their work and features of the new framework on the arXiv preprint server.

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last month Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons

Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way. While the experiments are still in the early stages, it’s possible that the company is looking to take on Duolingo with the help of Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model. The […]

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last month Study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations

Researchers investigated Argonne employees' use of Argo, an internal generative artificial intelligence chatbot.

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