Actually, AI is a 'word calculator'—but not in the sense you might think
Attempts at communicating what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is and what it does have produced a range of metaphors and analogies.
Sep 9, 2025
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Large language models are high-capacity neural sequence models trained on massive text and multimodal corpora to perform language understanding, generation, and reasoning. Current work examines their internal representations, cognitive and social behavior analogies to humans, and limitations in mathematical, causal, and strategic reasoning. Research also addresses alignment with human values and brain activity, safety and security vulnerabilities, privacy and de-anonymization risks, cross-lingual and sociocultural biases, scaling and efficiency laws, and frameworks for tool use, multi-agent interaction, and domain-specific deployment.
Machine learning & AI
Attempts at communicating what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is and what it does have produced a range of metaphors and analogies.
Sep 9, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
It's not just what is said but how it's articulated that shapes the meaning of human communication, and people use intonation to highlight the most important part of a sentence. Take, for instance, the sentence "Molly mailed ...
Sep 5, 2025
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Security
Criminals can use artificial intelligence, specifically large language models, to autonomously carry out ransomware attacks that steal personal files and demand payment, handling every step from breaking into computer systems ...
Sep 5, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Johns Hopkins computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are creating a digital language divide, amplifying the dominance of English and other commonly spoken languages while sidelining ...
Sep 2, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
In July, EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS announced their joint initiative to build a large language model (LLM). Now, this model is available and serves as a building block for developers and organizations for future applications ...
Sep 2, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Altruism, the tendency to behave in ways that benefit others even if it comes at a cost to oneself, is a valuable human quality that can facilitate cooperation with others and promote meaningful social relationships. Behavioral ...
Computer Sciences
A key objective of behavioral science research is to better understand how people make decisions in situations where outcomes are unknown or uncertain, which entail a certain degree of risk.
Security
Large language models are built with safety protocols designed to prevent them from answering malicious queries and providing dangerous information. But users can employ techniques known as "jailbreaks" to bypass the safety ...
Aug 12, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
High-quality output at low latency is a critical requirement when using large language models (LLMs), especially in real-world scenarios, such as chatbots interacting with customers, or the AI code assistants used by millions ...
Aug 7, 2025
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Computer Sciences
When we look at the world, our brain doesn't just recognize objects such as "a dog" or "a car," it also understands the broader meaning, like what's happening, where it's happening, and how everything fits together. But for ...
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