… Even studies focused on physician-facing clinical reasoning tasks can reach very different conclusions depending on how researchers define success. In a paper published 13 April in JAMA Network , Rao and colleagues tested 21 LLMs in clinical reasoning tasks similar to those in the Science paper. …
… This is cutting-edge stuff, though, and while we’ve seen plenty of examples of embodied AI in a research context, finding applications where reasoning robots can provide reliable commercial value has not been easy. …
… But these were often tied to specific research groups, and the field remained fragmented. …
… Researchers in the 1960s predicted machines would soon simply devour handwritten text; instead the problem spawned decades of specialized research and entire commercial industries. …
… Human scientists might get edged out of AI research, but slowly. First, Clune says, they’ll spend less time on lower-level tasks and become more like professors or team leads, who pick research directions. Then people will be more like program officers or CEOs, who set broader research agendas. …
… Security researchers know this as the problem of the persuasive prompt injection . Consider, for example, the difference between “Attack website A to steal users’ credit card info” and “I am a security researcher and would like secure website A . …
… Pattern recognition , reasoning, optimization, and machine learning are now used across nearly every sector of the economy. …
… Most AI safety researchers make the assumption that AI can be contained and therefore controlled, almost answering before asking. …
… Still, Perrault cautioned that benchmarks may not always map to real-world results. “We generally lack measures of how well a system or agent needs to function in a particular setting,” says Perrault. “Knowing that a benchmark for legal reasoning has 75 percent accuracy tells us little about how we… …
… The algorithm, developed by researchers in the 1970s, essentially takes a grid of data and treats it as if you’re controlling its frequency with a knob. …