AI models struggle with expert-level global history knowledge

Researchers recently evaluated the ability of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to answer questions about global history using a benchmark derived from the Seshat Global History Databank. The study, presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Vancouver, revealed…

Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are puzzling phenomena because their details are so difficult to resolve, and observations to date have been inconsistent. Astronomers added another piece to the puzzle with the detection of an FRB that seems to originate in…

Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion

Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic, boosting its position in the start-up as Silicon Valley titans rush to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. The Alphabet-owned search behemoth had already committed about…

AI job-screening tools are very prejudiced, study finds

Artificial intelligence, or AI, tools are great for handling boring tasks. Like going through thousands of job applications and pulling out the most promising ones. So companies often use AI apps to shortlist job applications. But these tools tend to…

Postmodern beliefs linked to left-wing authoritarianism

New research in Applied Cognitive Psychology explores the relationship between postmodern beliefs, psychological distress, and left-wing authoritarianism. The study found that individuals with strong postmodern beliefs are more likely to exhibit authoritarian tendencies, particularly when their levels of psychological distress…

Unmet needs in relationships linked to social media addiction and phubbing

A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology explored the relationship between the satisfaction of basic psychological needs in romantic relationships, social media addiction, and phubbing (the act of prioritizing a smartphone over face-to-face communication). Researchers found that when basic…

How to get a perfect salt ring deposit in your pasta pot

Physicist Mathieu Souzy of the University Twente was enjoying an evening of pasta and board games with several colleagues when the conversation turned to how adding salt to a pasta pot to make it boil faster can leave a white…