The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal a robot hand that learned human behavior on its own. This matters because it ...

Two researchers at Stanford University suggest in a new preprint research paper that repeatedly optimizing large language models (LLMs) for such market-driven objectives can lead them to adopt bad ...

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Less obvious is that once an LLM is fully operational, it begins to influence human behavior. As people turn to chatbots and ...

Students at Washington Park Elementary School are receiving rewards for positive behavior and can turn those rewards into ...

Animals often show that the instinct for connection and meaning is not unique to humans by displaying behaviors that feel ...

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Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them. She’s read up on the fungi that take over flies’ bodies, partially digesting them ...

Jonathan Swift's satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels, provides a unique perspective on human nature and society through the ...

Conversational AIs are getting better at sounding human. But when their goals misalign with ours, the consequences can be surprisingly personal.