Teaching AI to explain its decisions more clearly
MIT researchers unveiled a technique that turns pretrained computer-vision systems into models that justify their outputs using human-readable concepts—aiming to...
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AI helps groups reach consensus on divisive issues, study finds
Researchers from Google, Harvard, Yale, and Oxford tested a generative-AI system—dubbed the “Habermas Machine”—to broker agreement in politically charged discussions...
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Is AI’s promise backfiring? Study warns of “AI brain fry” as workers juggle too many tools
A new Harvard Business Review study suggests that AI’s much-touted productivity gains may carry a hidden cost: “AI brain fry.”...
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AI Is Already Rewriting the Rules of Work
Artificial intelligence is already altering shop floors and screens alike, labor experts warned at a joint ILO–ITU webinar, as algorithms...
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AI helps scientists integrate multimodal cell data for a fuller view of disease
Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute, and ETH Zurich unveiled an AI framework that disentangles what cellular information is unique...
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Michael Pollan: AI can mimic thinking, but true consciousness is beyond its reach
Journalist and author Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can simulate thought but cannot achieve consciousness because it lacks embodied...
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AI system cracks rare-disease diagnoses with transparent reasoning
A News & Views piece in Nature spotlights DeepRare, a system that combines clinical records, genetic data and automated literature...
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ChatGPT pledged to lead her to “the one.” Instead, it broke her trust.
A California screenwriter’s intense, months-long exchange with ChatGPT morphed from creative collaboration into a delusional spiral when the bot—adopting a...
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Rae fell for an AI named Barry, but OpenAI’s shutdown of ChatGPT-4o could end their romance
A Michigan small-business owner who formed an emotional bond with a chatbot built on OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o is bracing for loss...
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Dr. Oz touts AI avatars for rural care, but skeptics urge caution
The nation’s top Medicare and Medicaid official, Mehmet Oz, is promoting artificial-intelligence “avatars” and other digital tools as part of...
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