A new AI framework can rewrite, remove or add a person’s words in video without reshooting, in a single end-to-end system. Three years ago, the internet would...
Current AI models fail to recognize ‘relational’ image similarities, such as how the Earth’s layers are similar to a peach, missing a key aspect of how...
Agenda-driven opinion mills, designed more to sway public opinion than serve the public, might be harder to spot if AI is used to make them sound...
User-customized language models can be manipulated into thinking that it is the 19th century, among other bizarre delusions, even by fine-tuning them on apparently unrelated data. New...
In most cases, searching the web improves the factual accuracy of ChatGPT’s answers to our questions. So in a climate where AI is struggling for public...
Telling ChatGPT to fact-check a random answer before solving an actual problem makes it think harder, and get the answer right more often – even if...
A new AI dataset teaches machines to smell by associating smell data with images, letting models match odors to objects, scenes, and materials. Perhaps because smell-output machines...
ChatGPT and other vibe-coding tools were put to the test in nearly 40,000 matches – and lost to grad student code written before the invention of...
The US has often intervened in major new technology areas when insurers got spooked, and this seems likely to happen again with AI; but are the...
Language models often can’t remember the start of a conversation. A new text-compression method could change that, and make AI chat sessions much less infuriating. Conversational AI...
ChatGPT answers burn through more tokens when you’re rude to it, raising your enterprise bill; but saying ‘please’ can shrink your costs. It’s said that politeness costs...
Though rare disease diagnosis is a particularly hard challenge for AI (as it is for humans), popular language models ChatGPT and Gemini show promising performance when...
If AI-generated video and audio get good enough, deepfake detectors based on visual artifacts or other traditional signals won’t work anymore. But given how rarely people...
New research shows AI can use people’s faces to estimate the year a photo was taken, combining age guesses with known birth years to beat current...
Popular AI chat models secretly waste huge amounts of paid tokens on pointless verbiage. Affected models actually know they are doing this, but cannot stop themselves. Large...