AI The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why? Power users of chatbots sometimes say they find that language models perform better when you’re nice to them. Prog... See more
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AI Inside the debate over AI consciousness At ConCon, researchers and tech workers debate whether future systems could develop an inner life — and how you would know if they did I. When Rob Long saw Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein last year, he saw stri... See more
