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ChatGPT just passed the Turing test—but that doesn’t mean AI is now as smart as humans
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ChatGPT just passed the Turing test—but that doesn’t mean AI is now as smart as humans

Credit: AI-generated image There have been several headlines over the past week about an AI chatbot officially passing the Turing test. These news...

AI isn’t what we should be worried about—it’s the humans controlling it
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AI isn’t what we should be worried about—it’s the humans controlling it

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 2014, Stephen Hawking voiced grave warnings about the threats of artificial intelligence. His concerns were not based on...

Robotic dogs can inspire emergent leadership in humans
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Robotic dogs can inspire emergent leadership in humans

Credit: Elior Carsenti et al. A study from the Media Innovation Lab (miLAB) at Reichman University’s School of Communications explored how a robotic...

Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue
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Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue

Credit: Yo Kobayashi, 2025. Most computers run on microchips, but what if we’ve been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this...

Minecraft developer rejects generative AI, ‘it’s important that it makes us feel happy to create as humans’
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Minecraft developer rejects generative AI, ‘it’s important that it makes us feel happy to create as humans’

Employees of Minecraft developer Mojang have spoken on the role of generative AI in game development at a recent event They didn’t seem...

People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true
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People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true

Credit: CC0 Public Domain People say they prefer a short story written by a human over one composed by artificial intelligence, yet most...

When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?
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When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The advent of generative artificial intelligence has sent shock waves across industries, from the technical to the creative. AI...

With AI and linguistics, this professor is decoding how animals and humans communicate
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With AI and linguistics, this professor is decoding how animals and humans communicate

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. “Nobody cared about linguistics,”...

AI chatbots ease embarrassment, but humans handle anger better, research finds
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AI chatbots ease embarrassment, but humans handle anger better, research finds

Mugur Geana demonstrates eye-tracking equipment in a KU lab. A KU study has found people prefer working with AI chatbots when discussing embarrassing...