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Can scientists build a lie detector for AI chatbots?

Northeastern professor David Bau is studying how to make AI more interpretable and developing tools to make it easier to tell when it lies.
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Finding the right AI models for specific tasks using LLMs as a ‘judge’

This illustration photo shows a user interacting with a smartphone app to customize an avatar for a personal artificial intelligence chatbot.

AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, Northeastern study finds

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AI and digital culture make their way into Merriam-Webster

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Query, create or be curious at new AI Makerspace in Boston

The new AI Makerspace on the Boston campus, is open to students, faculty and staff regardless of expertise level or AI tool preference.
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Are bots changing how people talk? Language in the age of AI

Chatbots are leaving fingerprints on human language, from word choice and sentence structure to the way people navigate conversations.
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This robotics professor has a new strategy for AI era homework

This Northeastern professor combines homework with in-person quizzes, counting the lower score of the two as the final grade.
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OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Teens. What do teachers think?

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT for Teens is designed to help students learn and study. What do educators have to say about it?
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AI is helping design cities. How should urban planners proceed?

Using AI in urban planning can predict floods and simplify policy, but Northeastern researchers say it needs careful oversight.
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Who gets credit when AI joins the team? Rethinking collaboration

As AI becomes part of collaborative research, the line between human and bot input is blurring. Northeastern experts explore the fallout.

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