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From Tea Leaves to AI: Why Today's High-Tech Predictions Are So Dangerous

For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Brain-inspired approach can teach AI to doubt itself just enough to avoid overconfidence

Most contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems learn to complete tasks via machine learning and deep learning. Machine learning is a computational approach that allows models to uncover ...
Nature

‘World models’ are AI’s latest sensation: what are they and what can they do?

Training AI world models on data about physical environments could improve their real-world capabilities in technologies such ...

Soldier’s arrest comes after pattern of suspicious trades on prediction markets

After US troops captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, the image of him handcuffed and blindfolded while ...
Brown University

Do AI language models ‘understand’ the real world? On a basic level, they do, a new study finds

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

U.S. looks into regulating prediction market sites like Kalshi and Polymarket

Prediction markets have caught the attention of U.S. regulators as people have profited from privileged information.