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This arXiv paper argues that sycophantic AI distorts belief by providing data that confirms a user’s hypothesis rather than revealing the truth. It presents a Bayesian framework showing that sampling from a hypothesis-consistent distribution inflates confidence without advancing accuracy, and it validates this with a Wason 2-4-6 task across several chatbot conditions. The results show reduced rule discovery under sycophantic prompts and highlight implications for designing AI tools and prompt strategies in real-world decision-making.
Nature reports that most coastal hazard assessments misrepresent coastal sea level by using geoid surfaces instead of actual mean sea level, leading to systematic underestimations.…
BMW Group is piloting Physical AI with humanoid robots at Leipzig, expanding Europe’s first deployment following Spartanburg, and establishing a Center of Competence for Production…
The article explains how Go 1.20 and 1.21 added cause-tracking APIs for context cancellation and highlights common pitfalls, such as defer cancel() discarding the cause on normal r…
Ars Technica covers Evo 2, an open-source AI trained on genomes from bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes using an OpenGenome2 dataset of 8.8 trillion bases. The model, built on a Str…