Published on: 2025-06-10 20:08:12
Millions of people are now using ChatGPT as a therapist, career advisor, fitness coach, or sometimes just a friend to vent to. In 2025, it’s not uncommon to hear about people spilling intimate details of their lives into an AI chatbot’s prompt bar, but also relying on the advice it gives back. Humans are starting to have, for lack of a better term, relationships with AI chatbots, and for Big Tech companies, it’s never been more competitive to attract users to their chatbot platforms — and keep
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It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms. Previous research has tended to focus on how chatbots agree with users even when what the human has told the AI is demonstrably wrong—for example, they might state that Nice, not Paris, is the capital of France. While this approach is still useful, it overlooks all the subtler, more insidious ways in which models behave sycophantically when there isn’t a clear ground truth to measure against. Users typical
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 15:46:40
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last month, OpenAI rolled back some updates to GPT-4o after several users, including former OpenAI CEO Emmet Shear and Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue said the model overly flattered users. The flattery, called sycophancy, often led the model to defer to user preferences, be extremely polite, and not push back. It was also annoying. Sycophancy could lead
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last month, OpenAI rolled back some updates to GPT-4o after several users, including former OpenAI CEO Emmet Shear and Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue said the model overly flattered users. The flattery, called sycophancy, often led the model to defer to user preferences, be extremely polite, and not push back. It was also annoying. Sycophancy could lead
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 20:08:37
There’s a new Persona game coming very soon, but sadly it isn’t time for the next mainline entry just yet. Rather, Persona 5: The Phantom X is a spinoff in a similar vein to Persona 5 Strikers. Like that game, The Phantom X is set in the same universe as Atlus’ incredibly successful RPG, Persona 5, but unlike Strikers, this one features a new cast of characters, including a talking owl named Lufel that presumably takes the place of Morgana. First announced in 2023, Persona 5: The Phantom X is a
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It’s not the next mainline entry in the series, but Atlus did announced a new Persona game today. It’s called Persona 5: The Phantom X, and it’s a spinoff that’s launching on both mobile and PC on June 26th. As the name implies, The Phantom X is set in the same universe as 2017’s Persona 5, and will feature a new main character leading a new band of Phantom Thieves. This story takes place in “a mysterious Tokyo where desires have been lost.” The structure of The Phantom X sounds a lot like trad
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 08:43:00
What just happened? A newly identified object spotted in two infrared sky surveys may be the most substantial evidence for the elusive Planet Nine – a potential Neptune-sized world orbiting hundreds of times farther from the sun than Earth. Its unusual orbit and surprising mass raise questions about its origin, but astronomers will need follow-up observations with powerful telescopes to track its motion and confirm its identity. Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Last week, OpenAI pulled a GPT-4o update that made ChatGPT “overly flattering or agreeable” — and now it has explained what exactly went wrong. In a blog post published on Friday, OpenAI said its efforts to “better incorporate user feedback, memory, and fresher data” could have partly led to “tipping the scales on sycophancy.” In recent weeks, user
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Planet Nine is a hypothesized massive planet, first proposed in 2014, that is speculated to orbit far out in the solar system. It has not been detected formally. Instead, astronomers have inferred its presence from perceived perturbations of the orbits of some Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). The planet is estimated to be 2 to 4 times the radius, and about ten times the mass of the Earth. The best candidate yet for the elusive Planet Nine has been spotted in two deep infrared surveys taken 23 ye
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is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In 2019, DJI insisted to me that it wasn’t killing off the Phantom, its iconic line of oft-imitated drones that turned the Chinese company into the powerhouse it is today. And yet, DJI has just announced the end of life for its final two Phantom drones — the Phantom 4 Pro and Phantom 4 Advanced — with no new Phantom models in sight. Accord
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home > jokes > Pachydermic Personnel Prediction This does the rounds on the Net, usually under the title Hunting an Elephant in the 90s , with no attribution. My thanks to Reynir Stefánsson for telling me of its source. Stop Bit, Byte , p404, September 1989 Peter C. Olsen A bold new proposal for matching high-technology people and professions Over the years, the problem of finding the right person for the right job has consumed thousands of worker-years of research and millions of dollars i
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What has emerged is less a grand unified theory of how a creative idea originates and unfolds in the brain and more an ever-growing list of powerful observations. We can first divide the human creative process into phases, including an ideation or proposal step, followed by a more critical and evaluative step that looks for merit in ideas. A leading theory on what guides these two phases is called the associative theory of creativity, which posits that the most creative people can form novel con
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 11:58:19
The science fiction trope of humans superpowered by computer and bionic implants is fast becoming a reality, and today, a startup hoping for a role in how that plays out is announcing some funding. Phantom Neuro, which is developing a wristband-like device that gets implanted under the skin to let a person control prosthetic limbs, has raised $19 million to fund its next stage of development. The startup has already hit a few important milestones for a medical tech startup. It has received two
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The science fiction trope of humans superpowered by computer and bionic implants is fast becoming a reality, and today, a startup hoping for a role in how that plays out is announcing some funding. Phantom Neuro, which is developing a wristband-like device that gets implanted under the skin to let a person control prosthetic limbs, has raised $19 million to fund its next stage of development. The startup has already hit a few important milestones for a medical tech startup. It has received two
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In a nutshell: Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows 11 Start Menu that ditches the dual-section design for a larger layout with everything on a single scrollable page, including All Apps, Pinned Apps, and Recommendations. The new Start Menu will also allow users to disable the annoying recommendations and customize the layout to match their style. The new layout is hidden in the latest Windows 11 preview builds in the Dev and Beta channels, but reputable tipster @phantomofearth spotted the
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Other Diophantine equations, such as x2 + y2 = 3, don’t have any integer solutions. Hilbert’s 10th problem asked whether it’s always possible to tell if a given Diophantine equation has integer solutions. Does an algorithm exist to determine this for every equation, or is the problem undecidable? There might be no hope for a complete and systematic approach to all of mathematics—or even all 23 of Hilbert’s problems—but one might still exist when it comes to Diophantine equations, forming a micro
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“The Colossal woolly mouse marks a watershed moment in our de-extinction mission,” company cofounder Ben Lamm said in a statement. “This success brings us a step closer to our goal of bringing back the woolly mammoth.” Colossal’s researchers say their ultimate goal is not to re-create a woolly mammoth wholesale. Instead, the team is aiming for what they call “functional de-extinction”—creating a mammoth-like elephant that can survive in something like the extinct animal’s habitat and potentiall
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