Linguistics and computer science researchers have discovered some of the root causes of why AI large language models perform poorly in human-like conversations

Researchers from the UOC and the UAB examine the design and workings of the platform, which presents itself as focused on authenticity. The app manipulates users' behaviour by automatically exploiting their cognitive and emotional processes.

Hokkaido University and Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. signed a partnership agreement in June 2022 to address various social issues in Hokkaido and lead the creation of a sustainable society. As part of this collaboration, Hokkaido Air System Co., Ltd. will equip one of its aircraft with an external camera to commence the world's first regular flight-based red tide monitoring starting in the summer of 2025.

In a new multidisciplinary study published in the PNAS, a group of researchers from neuroscience and economics at the IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca links the debated concept of "ego depletion", that is to say the diminution of willpower caused by previous exploitation of it, to physical changes in the areas that govern executive functions in the brain. In particular, the fatigue appears to correspond, in the awake brain, to an increase of the EEG waves typical of sleep in the frontal cortex zone dedicated to making decisions.