{"id":204353,"date":"2025-01-23T02:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ai-struggles-to-understand-human-history-and-fails-when-tested"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:41:41","slug":"ai-struggles-to-understand-human-history-and-fails-when-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ai-struggles-to-understand-human-history-and-fails-when-tested","title":{"rendered":"AI struggles to understand human history and fails when tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-struggles-to-understand-human-history-and-fails-when-tested2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over a decade, complexity scientist Peter Turchin and his collaborators have worked to compile an unparalleled database of human history \u2013 the Seshat Global History Databank. Recently, Turchin and computer scientist Maria del Rio-Chanona turned their attention to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, questioning whether these advanced models could aid historians and archaeologists in interpreting the past.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which is the first of its kind, evaluates the historical knowledge of leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/do-ai-models-pose-an-existential-threat-to-humans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI models<\/a> such as ChatGPT-4, Llama, and Gemini.<\/p>\n<p>The results, presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NeurIPS conference<\/a>, reveal both potential and significant limitations in AI\u2019s ability to grasp historical knowledge, especially at the nuanced, expert level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, complexity scientist Peter Turchin and his collaborators have worked to compile an unparalleled database of human history \u2013 the Seshat Global History Databank. Recently, Turchin and computer scientist Maria del Rio-Chanona turned their attention to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, questioning whether these advanced models could aid historians and archaeologists in interpreting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204353","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}