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AI gets a D: ChatGPT struggles with scientific true-or-false, study shows

March 16, 2026 Tech Xplore

Again and again, Washington State University professor Mesut Cicek and his colleagues fed hypotheses from scientific papers into ChatGPT and asked it to determine whether the statements had been upheld by research—whether they were true […]

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AI’s game-playing still has flaws: AlphaZero-style self-play tested on Nim

March 13, 2026 Tech Xplore

New research published in Machine Learning shows pattern learning is not enough to train AI to tackle games—and abstract representations or hybrid approaches may help. Many AI researchers describe game-playing as the “Formula 1” of […]

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Shortest paths research narrows a 25-year gap in graph algorithms

March 12, 2026 Tech Xplore

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that compute shortest paths through vast networks. Now imagine scaling that task to […]

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Human brain and AI speech recognition decode speech in similar step-by-step stages, study finds

March 12, 2026 Tech Xplore

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate the brain processes via which humans understand […]

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AI is homogenizing human expression and thought, computer scientists and psychologists say

March 11, 2026 Tech Xplore

AI chatbots are standardizing how people speak, write, and think. If this homogenization continues unchecked, it risks reducing humanity’s collective wisdom and ability to adapt, computer scientists and psychologists argue in an opinion paper published […]

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Can AI read papers like a scientist? A new benchmark shows where LLMs fail

March 10, 2026 Tech Xplore

To stay up to date and work forward in their fields, scientists must have at their fingertips and in their minds thousands of published studies. Large language models (LLMs) show promise as a tool for […]

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The AI that taught itself: How AI can learn what it never knew

March 10, 2026 Tech Xplore

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it […]

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Deep AI training gets more stable by predicting its own errors

March 9, 2026 Tech Xplore

Artificial intelligence now plays Go, paints pictures, and even converses like a human. However, there remains a decisive difference: AI requires far more electricity than the human brain to operate. Scientists have long asked the […]

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Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

March 9, 2026 Tech Xplore

In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. Concept bottleneck modeling is […]

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Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer

March 5, 2026 Tech Xplore

At least 57 nations have live antipersonnel land mines in their territories. In 2024 alone, 1,945 people were killed by mines and 4,325 were injured, 90% of whom were civilians. Nearly half of those were […]

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