Psychology Researchers: AI Showed Imitation, Not Innovation
Testing children and adults against chatbots, the researchers found that the chatbots could match things up but struggled to solve problems on their ownHave you ever suspected that a good deal of what hear about AI rendering humans obsolete is, well, hype? Apparently some people at the Association for Psychological Science have been wondering about that too. Enterprising researchers have just published a study in one of their journals, Perspectives on Psychological Science, that distinguished between imitation, which AI does very well, and innovation which … we will let them tell the story: AI language models like ChatGPT are passively trained on data sets containing billions of words and images produced by humans. This allows AI systems to function as a “cultural technology” similar to writing that can summarize existing knowledge, Eunice Yiu, a co-author of the article, explained in an interview. But Read More ›