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.
Computer Sciences
Imagine asking a conversational bot like Claude or ChatGPT a legal question in Greek about local traffic regulations. Within seconds, it replies in fluent Greek with an answer based on UK law. The model understood the language, ...
Jun 2, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
The main problem with big tech's experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) is not that it could take over humanity. It's that large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Meta's Llama continue ...
Jun 2, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—writing emails, recommending movies and even driving cars—but what about the AI you don't see? Who (or what) is behind the scenes developing the algorithms that go unnoticed? And ...
Jun 2, 2025
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Computer Sciences
As artificial intelligence takes off, how do we efficiently integrate it into our lives and our work? Bridging the gap between promise and practice, Jann Spiess, an associate professor of operations, information, and technology ...
May 30, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
It is not often that cold, hard facts determine what people care most about and what they believe. Instead, it is the power and familiarity of a well-told story that reigns supreme. Whether it's a heartfelt anecdote, a personal ...
May 29, 2025
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Computer Sciences
An AI system that learns language autonomously develops a language structured in the same way as human language. And just as we humans learn from previous generations, AI models get better when they take advantage of the ...
May 29, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence isn't always a reliable source of information: large language models (LLMs) like Llama and ChatGPT can be prone to "hallucinating" and inventing bogus facts. But what if AI could be used to detect ...
May 29, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the study of neurobiological processes are deeply interlinked, as a deeper understanding of the former can yield valuable insight about the other, and vice versa. Recent ...
Machine learning & AI
As the head of the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at EPFL, Antoine Bosselut keeps a close eye on the development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. He looks back at their evolution over the ...
May 27, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Can large language models (LLMs) reason by analogy? Some outputs suggest that they can, but it has been argued that these results reflect mimicry of the results of analogical reasoning in the models' training data.
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