{"id":187250,"date":"2024-04-12T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/ai-can-pretend-to-be-stupider-than-it-really-is-scientists-find"},"modified":"2024-04-12T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:22:29","slug":"ai-can-pretend-to-be-stupider-than-it-really-is-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/ai-can-pretend-to-be-stupider-than-it-really-is-scientists-find","title":{"rendered":"AI Can Pretend To Be Stupider Than It Really Is, Scientists Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-can-pretend-to-be-stupider-than-it-really-is-scientists-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that advanced AI models are pretty good at acting dumber than they are \u2014 which might have massive implications as they continue to get smarter.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0298522\" class=\"\">journal <em>PLOS One<\/em><\/a>, researchers from Berlin\u2019s Humboldt University found that when testing out a large language model (LLM) on so-called \u201ctheory of mind\u201d criteria, they found that not only can AI mimic the language learning stages exhibited in children, but seem to express something akin to the mental capabilities related to those stages as well.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/advanced-ai-can-mimic-human-development-stages-study-finds\/\" class=\"\">interview with <em>PsyPost<\/em><\/a>, Humboldt University research assistant and main study author Anna Maklov\u00e1, who also happens to be a psycholinguistics expert, explained how her field of study relates to the fascinating finding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that advanced AI models are pretty good at acting dumber than they are \u2014 which might have massive implications as they continue to get smarter. Published in the journal PLOS One, researchers from Berlin\u2019s Humboldt University found that when testing out a large language model (LLM) on so-called \u201ctheory of mind\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}