Artificial Intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) are getting better at pretending to be human, with GPT-4.5 now resoundingly passing the Turing test, scientists say.In the new study, published March 31 to the arXiv preprint database but not yet peer reviewed, researchers found that when taking part in a three-party Turing test, GPT-4.5 could fool people into thinking…

The CEO of Shopify is asking managers to prove that AI couldn't do a better job before requesting to hire someone new.In an internal memo titled "AI usage is now a baseline expectation," Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke said that "using AI well is a skill that needs to be carefully learned" by "using it a…

Don't give up your day job, because a new study suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) is funnier than you.In a new study designed to test the co-creative capabilities of large language models (LLMs), internet memes created by OpenAI's GPT-4o model were, on average, rated funnier, more creative and more shareable than those created by humans,…

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be eroding its users’ critical thinking skills and making them dumber, a new study has warned.The research — a survey of workers in business, education, arts, administration and computing carried out by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University — found that those who most trusted the accuracy of AI assistants thought less…

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott expects the next half-decade to see more AI-generated code than ever — but that doesn't mean human beings will be cut out of the programming process."95% is going to be AI-generated," Scott said when asked about code within the next five years on an episode of the 20VC podcast. "Very little…

In Star Trek, the Starship Enterprise had a chief engineer, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, who regularly had to explain to Captain Kirk that certain things were impossible to pull off, due to practicalities such as the laws of physics."The engines cannae take it, Captain!" is a famous quote that the actor may actually not have said…

The recent release of DeepSeek sent shock waves through markets and acted as a Sputnik moment for the United States. After the news broke that China's artificial intelligence (AI) model achieved comparable or better results than Silicon Valley's best AI models, the U.S. suddenly faced a harsh reality: The country was not assured of being…

We know that artificial intelligence (AI) can't think the same way as a person, but new research has revealed how this difference might affect AI's decision-making, leading to real-world ramifications humans might be unprepared for.The study, published Feb. 2025 in the journal Transactions on Machine Learning Research, examined how well large language models (LLMs) can…

Large artificial intelligence (AI) models may mislead you when pressured to lie to achieve their goals, a new study shows.As part of a new study uploaded March 5 to the preprint database arXiv, a team of researchers designed an honesty protocol called the "Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge" (MASK) benchmark.While various studies and tools…

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