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This may come as a shock, but it turns out that an astounding proportion of AI search results are flat-out incorrect, according to a new study published by the Columbia…
Continue Reading Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time
Brain Power Trusting artificial intelligence over the real thing seems, per a new study, to be atrophying folks’ critical thinking skills. As flagged by the folks at 404 Media, new…
Trough Luck Researchers have found that including the words “artificial intelligence” in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers, suggesting a growing backlash and disillusionment with the tech —…
Work Roll Despite executives’ expectations to the contrary, a new study from one of the world’s largest gig work platforms has found that artificial intelligence is piling new workloads and…
Not So Smart In recent years, computer programmers have flocked to chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help them code, dealing a blow to places like Stack Overflow, which had to…
Old Prints, New Tricks New research suggests that our fingerprints aren’t actually unique, in what could potentially be a blow to a long-held cornerstone of forensic science. The work, published…
Broken Algo Using an algorithm similar to those that predict earthquake aftershocks, cops have for more than a decade tried to use “predictive policing” software to presage where crimes will take place…
A recent survey has found that Google Pixel owners are less likely to return to the Pixel brand when it’s time to buy a new phone. The study, conducted by…
There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the Internet Watch Foundation. Social media sites and chatrooms are…
Official Theory A Harvard professor and a ranking Pentagon official walk into a bar and start talking about alien motherships — stop me if you’ve heard this one before. No,…