Chatbots are surprisingly effective at debunking conspiracy theories
But facts aren’t dead. Our findings about conspiracy theories are the latest—and perhaps most extreme—in an emerging body of research demonstrating the persuasive power of...
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Iwuala, who now works as a professional translator between English and Igbo, said the users doing the most damage are inexperienced and see AI translations...
These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
What should these protocols say about security? Researchers and developers still don’t really understand how AI models work, and new vulnerabilities are being discovered all...
Google DeepMind’s new AI can help historians understand ancient Latin inscriptions
To do this, Aeneas takes in partial transcriptions of an inscription alongside a scanned image of it. Using these, it gives possible dates and places...
How to build a better AI benchmark
The limits of traditional testing If AI companies have been slow to respond to the growing failure of benchmarks, it’s partially because the test-scoring approach...
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military
“We still need to validate the sources,” says Lowdon. But the unit’s commanders encouraged the use of large language models, he says, “because they provide...
Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there
This all means it’s up to the tech companies themselves to act on their own initiative. And Big Tech has rarely acted without legislative threats...