Chatbots can be overly agreeable. To get less agreeable responses, ask for opposing viewpoints, multiple perspectives, and a ...

Here’s a thought many of us have these days: if only we weren’t on our damn phones all the time, we would surely unlock a better self—one that went on hikes and talked more with our children and felt ...

Warren Harding High School’s transformation was on full display at this year’s pep rally as students streamed through the halls just before the event. The atmosphere was calmer than in years past, and ...

Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up. OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models.

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Suppose someone criticizes you unfairly and you resent that individual for it. Unfortunately, making yourself resentful doesn't help matters, always rates as psychologically unhealthy, and only makes ...

While blockbuster drug innovations have changed health outcomes for decades, we’re now seeing signs that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may be changing something broader: the consumer ...

We often know what might help us feel better. We tell ourselves to eat better, drink less, exercise more, be kinder to ourselves, or stop scrolling late at night. Yet, despite our best intentions, we ...

Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms out the rest to interns and film students, who send back detailed ...

Most Americans say they want to grow old in their homes. But most don’t plan ahead for it. More than half of U.S. homes don’t have basic features for aging in place, such as a step-free entryway and ...

"Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville, John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll may not seem to have much in common, but they can all be found on the reading ...

People are far more likely to lie and cheat when they use AI for tasks, according to an eyebrow-raising new study in the journal Nature. “Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people ...