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Is the AI black box right on time?
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (19+ words) Is the AI black box right on time?Digital Information World Is the AI black box right on time?...
A better method for identifying overconfident large language models
1+ week, 1+ day ago (712+ words) But this method measures self-confidence, and even the most impressive LLM might be confidently wrong. Overconfidence can mislead users about the accuracy of a prediction, which might result in devastating consequences in high-stakes settings like health care or finance. To…...
AI may be making us think and write more alike
2+ week, 1+ day ago (486+ words) The researchers " led by Morteza Dehghani, professor of psychology and computer science at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences " say that AI developers should incorporate more real-world diversity into large language model (LLM) training sets, not only to…...
Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (812+ words) To narrow down the choice, companies often rely on LLM ranking platforms, which gather user feedback on model interactions to rank the latest LLMs based on how they perform on certain tasks. But MIT researchers found that a handful of…...
Reversible Words Affect Persuasiveness: Boost Confidence in Agreeing Readers, Reduce It in Disagreeing Ones, Study Finds
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (220+ words) UC San Diego research shows how marketers can choose specific words to boost confidence in a brand's claim. Story by'Christine Clark - [email protected]. Edited by Asim BN. "Effective messaging isn't just about whether people agree with a claim " it's about how…...
“Bad behaviour” begets “bad behaviour” in AI – Expert Reaction
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1054+ words) When they trained AI models to produce computing code with security vulnerabilities, the models began to give violent or malicious responses to completely unrelated questions. The SMC asked experts to comment on this finding and its implications. Dr Andrew Lensen,…...
Study Finds Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLM Performance Without Increasing Output Length or Latency
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (92+ words) Study Finds Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLM Performance Without Increasing Output Length or Latency'Digital Information World Study Finds Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLM Performance Without Increasing Output Length or Latency Meet Asim, the maverick of tech news reporting, renowned for…...
What the hyperproduction of AI slop is doing to science
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (728+ words) The large language models that power AI tools such as ChatGPT are trained on a wide variety of textual data, and they can now produce complex and high-quality texts of their own. Most importantly, the widespread use of AI tools…...
OpenAI Pushes Ahead with GPT-5.1 While Legal and Ethical Questions Persist
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (380+ words) Although OpenAI framed the update as an evolution rather than a revolution, many testers agree it feels like a step closer to natural reasoning. Still, the model is not immune to mistakes. Users have noted that while its tone feels…...
It Takes Only a Few Documents to Weaken Massive AI Systems
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (689+ words) A small number of malicious files can quietly alter how large AI models behave, according to new research from Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute. The study shows that inserting as few as 250 poisoned documents…...