Every six months, Twitter and Bluesky circle back to whether LLMs are “stochastic parrots,” though the debate has become increasingly confusing as proponents of the metaphor have started using it in v...

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Get to know Tiziano Piccardi, who joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of computer science and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute.

TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

Even if you think LLMs are bad for science, you should let them have access to research papers

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

AI slop is a silly term, and we should abandon it

Anti-AI sentiment is genuine, but its online expression looks stranger and stranger.

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

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