Celeste Kidd

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here's a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn't cover on their own. This week, SpeedyBrand, a company using generative AI to […]

When you're curious, you're most open to learning new things. But much-hyped AI systems providing wrong or biased answers could have serious repercussions for learning, psychologists wa…

New research shows our ideas about even the most basic words vary widely, helping explain why we talk past each other.

People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI

We think about what a penguin is like in dozens of different ways—one reason why we often talk past each other

We seek novelty, but not too much.

Children ages four to seven demonstrate natural fact-checking skills when put to a test with zebras and space aliens

Distinctive meanings for a word like "risk" can have a big impact on public messaging, especially when it comes to issues like climate change

We are Generally Intelligent, a new, independent research company whose goal is to develop generally capable AI agents with human-like…

Understanding curiosity can help people—and robots—learn faster

The number of thumbs-up, hearts and retweets can speed up conspiracy theories