You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent ...

In 1960, a theoretical physicist named William Newcomb presented a thought experiment. (Thought experiments, as I've ...

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Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

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Researchers showed that large language models use a small, specialized subset of parameters to perform Theory-of-Mind reasoning, despite activating their full network for every task.

For more than a century, we’ve treated the brain like a bustling high-rise office. The neurons act as the high-powered ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

Ethical guardrails ensure that innovation serves humanity, not just profit or convenience. Transparency, accountability, and care must be embedded into AI design and deployment. Ethics are the moral ...

Altman then refers to the “model spec,” the set of instructions an AI model is given that will govern its behavior. For ...

At least a quarter of the more than 100 billion messages sent to our chatbots are attempts to initiate romantic or sexual exchanges.