What Shaw and Nave did was give 1,372 people a test, and access to an AI chatbot for help—with the twist that the chatbot ...

On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review ...

Heavy users of artificial intelligence report being overwhelmed by trying to keep up with and on top of the technology ...

I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the University of ...

C al Newport has been described as the “man who never procrastinates,” so I expected him to be punctual for our interview. He didn’t disappoint. He logged onto Zoom from his podcast studio in Takoma ...

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AI use can speed up many tasks; for example, analyzing complex data. However, using AI to complete a task at work or for a hobby could lead to so-called cognitive offloading. Cognitive offloading ...

AI chatbots are standardizing how people speak, write, and think. If this homogenization continues unchecked, it risks reducing humanity’s collective wisdom and ability to adapt, computer scientists ...

Ultimately, the question every professor should ask is this: Is this a task students need to be able to perform on their own?

A study using agentic artificial intelligence to detect early signs of cognitive decline in unstructured medical records found the technology achieved near-expert performance without any human ...