Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

What I Learned from Teaching Darwin

Could AI language models be used to help align themselves?

Open Thread

Indiana Ban on "Instruction" "on Human Sexuality" in Pre-K to Third Grade Upheld by Seventh Circuit

DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for Secretly Funding Extremists

No, FDR Did Not Pull America Out of the Great Depression

Stephanie Barclay on "The Emergency Docket's Mistaken Birthday"

What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all

Globalization Made Howard Lutnick a Billionaire. Now He's Railing Against It as Trump's Commerce Chief.

Thursday Poem

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Court Blocks Community College "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility" Requirements for Teaching

3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression

AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results worried researchers

Review: A Cognitive Neuroscientist's Take on How AI Models Think

Mini models of the human brain are revealing how this complex organ takes shape

Professor Emeritus Jack Dennis, pioneering developer of dataflow models of computation, dies at 94

A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models

New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions