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Today's AI Talks Like "Nobody." New Research Gives It Real Personality.
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (345+ words) Psych Adapter lets researchers dial in on personality traits, age, and mental health characteristics to generate text that sounds like real individuals, opening the door to training simulations and personalized content. Today's large language models are trained on the aggregate…...
Reading Today's Headlines Through AI: A Real-Time Audit of Six Commercial Chatbots
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (184+ words) In a new study, scholars measured how accurately popular AI chatbots answered questions about the emerging news and found substantial regional disparity, dependence on distinct information ecosystems, and acute fragility under imperfect prompts. We also analyzed every URL cited across…...
How AI is Transforming Scientific Discovery While Keeping Humans at the Center
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1635+ words) From designing new antibodies to simulating 1, 000 years of climate in a day, AI is transforming what's possible'but humans remain the ones deciding what matters. Leveraging statistical concepts from measurement science and education, AI researchers have greatly reduced the computational demand…...
New Approach to Scaling Laws Could Change How AI Models Are Trained
2+ week, 4+ day ago (420+ words) Leveraging statistical concepts from measurement science and education, AI researchers have greatly reduced the computational demand of predicting how the largest of large language models will scale up in the future. It could save millions of dollars in training costs....
Operationalizing Real-Time Monitoring of Clinical AI
3+ week, 4+ day ago (361+ words) This brief demonstrates how real-time monitoring can address critical gaps in the oversight of radiological AI tools. Radiological AI tools account for the largest share of FDA-approved healthcare AI, yet clinical adoption remains slow and most deployed systems lack robust…...
Stanford HAI Launches AI and Organizations Lab to Study Science of AI in the Workplace
3+ week, 5+ day ago (273+ words) The new center will examine AI's real-world impacts on jobs, teams, and organizational performance. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) today announced the launch of the AI and Organizations Lab, a new research center that will establish an empirical…...
Researchers Worldwide Compete to Shape the Future of AI in Organizations
3+ week, 5+ day ago (750+ words) More than 200 academic teams submitted proposals to the AI for Organizations Grand Challenge, exploring how artificial intelligence will transform teamwork and collaboration. As AI tools become commonplace in the workplace, the way teams form and collaborate will evolve. Organizational models…...
Why Stanford Is Restructuring For AI's Next Era
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1234+ words) As artificial intelligence transforms society, Stanford HAI's James Landay, Fei-Fei Li, and John Hennessy explain why they're merging HAI with the Stanford Data Science initiative, mobilizing "team science at scale," and betting that academic openness will shape AI's future. James…...
Stanford Merges AI and Data Science Efforts Under Single Institute
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1077+ words) The combined institute will retain the Stanford HAI name and be helmed by computer scientist James Landay. Co-founder Fei-Fei Li takes on a new university-wide role as Special Advisor on AI and joins John Hennessy as co-chair of the advisory…...
Collaborative Coding, Better Scaling, Health Tracking: HAI Awards $2. 17 M to Innovative Research
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (211+ words) Seed grants will fund 29 research teams pursuing novel research ideas across disciplines. In the eighth year of the Stanford HAI Seed Research Grant program, 272 teams competed for funding to support ambitious AI projects across diverse fields ranging from science and…...