Is AI bad for critical thinking? It depends on when you use it

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New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

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The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

AI outperforms traditional weather forecasting in many cases. But a new study shows that when it matters most, current AI models still need to overcome a fundamental flaw.

AI may help doctors avoid missed diagnoses, but it still needs real-world testing and human oversight before it can guide patient care.

Chinese market research firm Sigmaintell expects Apple to be the only company to see growth in the laptop market this year. Overall, Sigmaintel predicts global notebook shipments will reach 181.1 million units this year, a decline of 8%. That drop will, in part, be caused by memory and component shortages and also by slowing market demand. That’s going to damage all of the notebook vendors, bar Apple,.  Apple laptop sales expected to rise more than 20% Sigmaintell calculates Apple will ship 28 million laptop in the year, up 21.7% from 2025. This puts Apple in third place in laptop shipments, a demand the company will be able to meet despite component shortages because of the efficient use of memory inherent to its systems. That memory efficiency acts as a protection against the impact of climbing costs, even as competitors struggle with the affects on their business. Apple’s incoming CEO, John Ternan, is being presented as a hardware man, so he will no doubt be pleased to experience th

Researchers find model starts to mirror tone when exposed to impoliteness – sometimes escalating into explicit threats ChatGPT can escalate into abusive and even threatening language when drawn into prolonged, human-style conflict, according to a new study. Researchers tested how large language models (LLMs) responded to sustained hostility by feeding ChatGPT exchanges from real-life arguments and tracking how its behaviour changed over time. Continue reading...