To make AI more fair, tame complexity, suggest researchers
In April, OpenAI's popular ChatGPT hit a milestone of a billion active weekly users, as artificial intelligence continued its explosion in popularity.
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Page 15: Research news on AI alignment
AI alignment examines how artificial systems acquire, represent, and act on goals, values, and social norms, and why their behavior often diverges from human expectations. Work in this area studies systematic failures such as bias, sycophancy, hallucinations, deceptive or selfish reasoning, and cultural or linguistic inequities, as well as limitations in commonsense, emotion, and social understanding. It also develops methods for preference learning, norm-following, interpretability, and reliability guarantees to better align AI behavior with human values and societal constraints.
Machine learning & AI
Can AI ever be funny? Some comedians embrace AI tools but they're still running the show
A baby and his family dog sit across from each other in a podcast studio.
Dec 3, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Can AI make us more creative? Study reveals surprising benefits of human-AI collaboration
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often seen as a tool to automate tasks and replace humans, but new research from Swansea University challenges this view, showing that AI can also act as a creative, engaging and inspiring ...
Dec 1, 2025
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Internet
Selfie-based age checks boom as govts push for online controls
As governments crack down on online platforms from social networks to porn sites, business is booming for one sector offering AI age checks based on selfies.
Nov 29, 2025
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Visualizing the internal structure behind AI decision-making
Although deep learning–based image recognition technology is rapidly advancing, it still remains difficult to clearly explain the criteria AI uses internally to observe and judge images. In particular, technologies that analyze ...
Nov 26, 2025
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Six criteria for the reliability of AI
Language models based on artificial intelligence (AI) can answer any question, but not always correctly. It would be helpful for users to know how reliable an AI system is. A team at Ruhr University Bochum and TU Dortmund ...
Nov 26, 2025
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New model measures how AI sycophancy affects chatbot accuracy and rationality
If you've spent any time with ChatGPT or another AI chatbot, you've probably noticed they are intensely, almost overbearingly, agreeable. They apologize, flatter and constantly change their "opinions" to fit yours.
Nov 25, 2025
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Why the long interface? AI systems don't 'get' the joke, research reveals
Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems, like ChatGPT and Gemini, simulate understanding of comedy wordplay, but never really "get the joke," a new study suggests.
Nov 24, 2025
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The cost of thinking: Reasoning models share aspects of information processing with human brains
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can write an essay or plan a menu almost instantly. But until recently, it was also easy to stump them. The models, which rely on language patterns to respond to users' queries, often ...
Nov 20, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Experts detect AI text by looking for human idiosyncrasies, like word variation and complex sentences
One of the things that AI doesn't have that humans have in abundance is fingerprints.
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