What if there was an AI text detector that could recognize that you wrote something based on an idea that AI gave you – even if...
AI does everything at scale, from DOS-attack-level web scraping to producing, or enabling, such vast volumes of scientific research submissions that the result is becoming both...
The template for a typical ‘Can AI automate this?’ line of inquiry is to feed multiple examples of something whose characteristics you want to isolate, and...
The most persistent bugbear of the science beat is when a new research paper makes an ‘inflated claim’ – typically accompanied by an eventual downplayed admission...
On March 23rd this year, OpenAI introduced the Library to ChatGPT. Now, instead of evaporating like skittish Snapchat messages, everything you uploaded to a chat session...
We think in pictures a lot – well, most of us: in humans, diminished capacity for visual imagination has been shown in research to be associated...
As incidents of agentic misbehavior creep higher in the headlines, there is a growing trend in the literature towards the study of ‘itinerant’ AI behavior, treating...
According to a new research collaboration between Germany and the UK, anonymized patient records that were included in medical datasets even decades ago may cause AI...
The gig postings and service offerings at casual work outlets such as Upwork and Fiverr heavily feature the word ‘humanize’ these days, with a range of...
In order to stop AI’s knowledge-base from stagnating or corrupting, frontier AI models need to keep ingesting vast quantities of current data from the internet.In this...
I note with interest a new Ukraine-led paper indicating that the older generation of deepfake video detectors perform very poorly on current state-of-the-art genAI video, whether...
If you’re old enough to remember the warez scene of roughly 1995–2010, when vast collections of cracked software and ripped movies (bought wholesale off the street,...
Yesterday evening, as often happens, my wife came over to show me various videos and images that have amused her on social media after work. These...
ChatGPT and other AI writing tools may be quietly turning science into a popularity contest, repeatedly steering researchers toward the same papers while overlooking new and...
New research suggests that AI models from rival companies are becoming more alike in their creative answers, potentially narrowing the range of ideas that users encounter. New...
