Advanced AI is going to more human-like conversationally, including interrupting users and going off topic. getty In today’s column, I examine a newly emerging trend that entails how generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are shaped and tuned when it comes to carrying on conversations with humans. Here’s the backstory. Humans customarily interrupt one…
BEIJING (AFP): After her father died from cancer, Zhang Xinyu had an artificial intelligence avatar made that looks and sounds just like him, part of a growing “digital human” industry that China is moving to govern more tightly. Videos featuring AI digital humans are ubiquitous on Chinese social media, with their uncanny features and smooth, dexterous…
CMU doctoral student Jose Oros, who designed a study to test creativity in AI-generated music, leads Evelyn Davenport, who is working toward an Advanced Music Studies certificate at CMU, in a research session. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University AI can write songs, but still has a way to go before matching the creativity of tunes made…
AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people. But there’s more to the story than the results, underpinning how difficult it is to put “creativity” in a measurable box. Université de Montréal researchers led a large-scale study that pit 100,000 humans against the…
Generative artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping voice technology and AI-powered hardware, enabling devices to understand and respond to natural human language in ways that were once futuristic science fiction. Advances across major tech platforms are accelerating this transformation, and analysts say improved comprehension and context understanding are making voice AI a central interface for everyday…
Can generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT genuinely create original ideas? A new study led by Professor Karim Jerbi from the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal, with participation from renowned AI researcher Yoshua Bengio, takes on that question at an unprecedented scale. The research is the largest direct comparison ever conducted between…
With the re/insurance market facing compounding pressures in 2026, Capgemini’s Luca Russignan has suggested the gap is widening between those who execute and those who merely experiment, as AI’s double-edged nature rewards true trailblazers who are redesigning processes around the technology rather than simply adopting it. In a New Year discussion with Reinsurance News, Russignan,…
