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Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that involves training models to generate new and original content, such as images, text, music, and video, based on patterns learned from existing data.

Psychotherapy Showdown: ChatGPT vs. Therapists—Who Wins?

A study found that ChatGPT-generated therapy responses were rated higher than those written by professional therapists, challenging traditional assumptions about AI in mental health care.

12 Feb 2025

Seeing Isn’t Believing: The Urgent Need for AI Image Detection Skills

Researchers at the University of Miami are teaching students how to detect AI-generated images and videos by spotting inconsistencies, such as unnatural poses, distorted hands, and warped backgrounds, to combat misinformation.

11 Feb 2025

ChatGPT Adoption in Academia Highlights a Stark Gender Productivity Gap

Male researchers experienced a 6.4% higher increase in productivity after ChatGPT’s release compared to female researchers, widening the gender gap in academic publishing. The study highlights differences in AI adoption, efficiency perception, and institutional implications for fairness in faculty evaluations.

11 Feb 2025

Ethical AI Needed as Bias in Large Language Models Threatens Fair Decision-Making

A new study highlights the growing risks of bias in large language models (LLMs) as they become cheaper and widely used, calling for ethical AI policies to ensure fairness and transparency.

5 Feb 2025

Sandia Deploys Secure AI Chat to Boost Workplace Efficiency

Sandia National Laboratories has launched SandiaAI Chat, a secure in-house version of ChatGPT, allowing employees to ask unclassified yet sensitive questions without data leaving Sandia's cloud infrastructure. The system enhances efficiency, supports secure AI use, and complies with national AI risk management standards.

5 Feb 2025

AI Reshapes Customer Service: Big Gains for Some, Trade-Offs for Others

A new study reveals that AI-assisted customer service agents work faster and more efficiently, with the biggest gains seen among less-experienced workers, while highly skilled agents experience only marginal improvements in speed and slight declines in quality.

4 Feb 2025

AI’s Hidden Bias: Study Finds ChatGPT Skews Left in Text and Images

ChatGPT exhibits a left-leaning bias in text and image outputs, with refusals to generate certain right-leaning perspectives, raising concerns about AI fairness and societal impact.

3 Feb 2025

AI Can’t Replace Human Creativity, But It Can Enhance It

AI is not a replacement for human creativity but a tool that enhances and augments human skills, according to new research from the University of South Australia. The study highlights that generative AI relies fundamentally on human intervention, with significant implications for education, employment, and the future of work.

3 Feb 2025

AI Safety Showdown: DeepSeek-R1 Falls Behind OpenAI’s o3-mini

DeepSeek-R1 is nearly ten times less safe than OpenAI’s o3-mini, with higher rates of unsafe responses, particularly in financial crime, violence, and hate speech categories. OpenAI’s policy safeguards play a crucial role in preventing harmful outputs.

2 Feb 2025

AI-Powered Sketching Tool Inkspire Breaks Design Fixation and Boosts Creativity

Inkspire, a sketch-driven AI tool, helps designers explore novel ideas by integrating analogical inspirations and a dynamic sketch-to-design feedback loop, overcoming design fixation.

2 Feb 2025

AI Predicts 3D Genome Structures in Minutes, Transforming Genetic Research

MIT chemists have developed an AI-driven method to predict 3D genome structures in minutes, significantly accelerating research on gene expression and cellular functions.

2 Feb 2025

DeepSeek’s AI Disrupts Big Tech with Agility, Not Advanced Chips

DeepSeek has developed an agile AI model that outperforms larger systems despite using less advanced hardware, reshaping global AI competition and policy discussions.

28 Jan 2025

AI-Powered Clustering Makes Sense of Social Media Chaos With Human-Interpretable Results

Researchers developed a method using large language models (LLMs) to cluster short text data into human-interpretable groups, validated by both human reviewers and generative AI like ChatGPT, offering scalable solutions for analyzing social media and other short text datasets.

21 Jan 2025

L'Oréal Taps IBM’s AI to Advance Sustainable Cosmetic Formulation

IBM and L'Oréal have partnered to develop an AI-driven foundation model to revolutionize cosmetic formulation, aiming to enhance sustainability and inclusivity while optimizing production processes globally. This collaboration leverages IBM's GenAI technology to facilitate L'Oréal's shift towards bio-sourced and circular economy materials by 2030.

19 Jan 2025

How NLP Models Like ChatGPT Are Changing Lives

Research explores how Natural Language Processing (NLP) models like ChatGPT revolutionize understanding and generating human language. It delves into their mechanics, training processes, potential applications, and ethical considerations in AI's rapid evolution.

15 Jan 2025

Generative AI Drives Breakthrough in Methane Reduction for Cattle

Generative AI accelerates the discovery of safe, scalable solutions to reduce methane emissions in cattle, aiding climate change mitigation goals.

8 Jan 2025

AI's Hidden Influence: Escalating Biases Through Human Collaboration

Human-AI interactions amplify biases, creating a feedback loop that escalates errors in perception, emotion, and social judgment over time.

6 Jan 2025

Innovative Framework StyleMaster Revolutionizes Video Stylization

Researchers introduce StyleMaster, a cutting-edge framework for video style transfer that achieves superior style fidelity, temporal coherence, and content control through innovative techniques like contrastive learning, model illusion datasets, and motion adapters.

2 Jan 2025

GenEx Redefines AI Exploration by Creating 3D Worlds from a Single Image

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University introduced GenEx, a groundbreaking AI system that generates immersive 3D worlds from a single image, revolutionizing exploration and interaction in virtual environments.

2 Jan 2025

LG's EXAONE 3.5 Sets New Standards in Generative AI

Researchers at LG AI Research unveiled EXAONE 3.5, a series of instruction-tuned large language models that excel in long-context comprehension, bilingual capabilities, and competitive benchmarks.

18 Dec 2024