“Six Reasons Young People Go To AI For Emotional Support”
“People around me might be a little biased if they’re more on my side. So I use ChatGPT as a tool where it’s like, you don’t know too much about the other person or me. So, am I in the wrong? Or what side makes more sense, so I can self-reflect?”
“AI Outperforms Doctors In Emergency Room Tasks”
“Evaluations were performed by two doctors who did not know whether the ER assessments had been made by the AI model or by two expert attending physicians. Those reviewers found that o1 preview matched or exceeded expert human performance across each stage. The AI was particularly good at making assessments at the initial triage stage, […]
“Harvard’s New Playbook For Teaching With AI”
“Critically, Tan does not grade her students’ AI-generated content. Instead, she assesses their reflections and their ability to use AI meaningfully. Over time, students get better at writing effective prompts and critiquing the AI’s output. They learn to identify hallucinations, jargon that masks weak logic, and content that sounds plausible but lacks substance. Tan’s broader […]
Howard Gardner Is Rethinking Multiple Intelligences In Light Of AI
““I think most cognitive aspects of mind — the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, and the creative mind — will be done so well by large language machines and mechanisms that whether we do them as humans will be optional,” he said. “On the other hand, I don’t believe for a minute that aspects of […]
“What Of The Humble Pencil?”
AI Is More Human Like Than Ever. But: Which Humans Is It More Like?
“Technical reports often compare LLMs’ outputs with “human” performance on various tests. Here, we ask, “Which humans?” Much of the existing literature largely ignores the fact that humans are a cultural species with substantial psychological diversity around the globe that is not fully captured by the textual data on which current LLMs have been trained. […]
Professor Shows “How—And When—Authoritarians Fall”
“Working with other researchers, Chenoweth has been able to pinpoint some predictors of a resistance movement’s victory. It turns out that organizational leadership and skills training sometimes matter more than money, and that boycotts and strikes often weaken a regime even more than massive demonstrations.”