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AI creates better and funnier memes than people, study shows — even when people use AI for help
By Owen Hughes published
In a study, memes created by OpenAI's GPT-4o model were, on average, rated funnier, more creative and more shareable than those created by humans.

Using AI reduces your critical thinking skills, Microsoft study warns
By Ben Turner published
A survey of workers who use AI has revealed the tools could be slowly impairing our critical thinking skills.

The US is squandering the one resource it needs to win the AI race with China — human intelligence
By Akhil Bhardwaj published
Opinion The release of DeepSeek was a reminder that the U.S. is not the assured frontrunner of AI development. As the race between China and the U.S. intensifies, is America inadvertently giving it's biggest rival a huge leg up?

Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI 'think' — and the implications could be significant
By Drew Turney published
Study finds that AI fundamentally lacks the human capability to make creative mental connections, raising warning signs for how we deploy AI tools.

AI models will lie to you to achieve their goals — and it doesn't take much
By Alan Bradley published
Researchers discover that the most advanced AI models may lie to their users when under pressure.

Traumatizing AI models by talking about war or violence makes them more anxious
By Drew Turney published
A recent study exposing AI models to carefully designed prompts around trauma revealed they can get anxious, potentially affecting the conversation and having negative impacts on people who use such models to discuss their mental health.

Current AI models a 'dead end' for human-level intelligence, scientists agree
By Ben Turner published
In a new survey, 76% of scientists said that scaling large language models was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to achieve AGI.

New AI is better at weather prediction than supercomputers — and it consumes 1000s of times less energy
By Skyler Ware published
The Aardvark Weather machine learning algorithm is much faster than traditional systems and can work on a desktop computer.

Punishing AI doesn't stop it from lying and cheating — it just makes it hide better, study shows
By Ben Turner published
Scientists at OpenAI have attempted to stop a frontier AI model from cheating and lying by punishing it. But this just taught it to scheme more privately.

Google's AI 'co-scientist' cracked 10-year superbug problem in just 2 days
By Ben Turner published
Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When prompted, Google's new AI "co-scientist" gave them the answer in two days.
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