“THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” If you live in New York, you may have seen this disclosure at checkout when shopping online and in stores. If you live elsewhere, it ...

A few short years ago, asking AI to add two four-digit numbers together for a third-grade math assignment would have been a ...

Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...

For the last several years, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) has been a hot topic. It seems that everywhere you look, there is someone who has, at the very least, narcissistic traits. People ...

Treat the LLM as a brain, not a source of facts. A practical guide to multi-agent LLM systems: prompts, orchestration, RAG, ...

Open enrollment for health insurance is fast approaching for people who get plans through their employers or the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Consumers may have to make financial trade-offs amid ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was nearly universal. While testing a new DNA sequencing technique, they examined a ...

About 10 minutes of relying on AI assistance for problem-solving can significantly impair a person’s ability to persist through difficult tasks, according to a study coauthored by Brian Christian, a ...

Meta’s bringing Instagram’s “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content. Meta’s bringing Instagram’s “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank ...

The amount of time children in England spend on screens at school could be harming their "physical and developmental health", a group of more than 150 clinicians has warned. GPs, paediatricians and ...