How to make your apology more effective – new research

Sorry really can be the hardest word.

Shiri Lev-Ari, Reader in Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London • conversation
May 8, 2025 ~5 min

People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer – new study

It’s hard for ordinary people to distinguish good advice from decisively-voiced bad advice.

Tina Seabrooke, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Southampton • conversation
April 27, 2025 ~6 min


Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language

A new technique automatically guides an LLM toward outputs that adhere to the rules of whatever programming language or other format is being used.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
April 18, 2025 ~8 min

Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning

Large language model AIs can ingest long documents and answer questions about them, but a key question is how well they ‘understand’ individual sentences in the documents.

Manas Gaur, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County • conversation
April 17, 2025 ~8 min

Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language

A new method from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab helps large language models to steer their own responses toward safer, more ethical, value-aligned outputs.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
April 14, 2025 ~11 min

Getting AIs working toward human goals − study shows how to measure misalignment

Aligning AIs with people’s goals and values is tricky. A new technique quantifies how far off human and machine are from each other.

Aidan Kierans, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut • conversation
April 14, 2025 ~5 min

Humans are bad at reading dogs’ emotions – but we can learn to do better

Even experts get dog body language wrong at times.

Juliane Kaminski, Associate professor of comparative Psychology, University of Portsmouth • conversation
March 26, 2025 ~6 min

Humans are bad at reading dogs’ emotions – but we can do learn to do better

Even experts get dog body language wrong at times.

Juliane Kaminski, Associate professor of comparative Psychology, University of Portsmouth • conversation
March 26, 2025 ~6 min


What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up

When AI systems try to bridge gaps in their training data, the results can be wildly off the mark: fabrications and non sequiturs researchers call hallucinations.

Katelyn Mei, Ph.D. Student in Information Science, University of Washington • conversation
March 21, 2025 ~7 min

Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted

Handing over the tasks once done by human developers comes with some major risks.

Jordi Cabot, Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) • conversation
March 17, 2025 ~6 min

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