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Tuesday, 16 April 2024

AI can pretend to be stupid to gain an advantage over humans

 Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models can pretend to be dumber than they actually are, a new study has found, and this could have serious consequences as they continue to develop.

In a study published in the journal PLOS One, scientists from the Humboldt University of Berlin found that when tested against the theory of mind criteria of the large language model (LLM), AI not only could imitate the language learning stages observed in children, but also exhibited something similar to the cognitive abilities associated with these stages of development.

Lead study author Anna Maklova and her colleagues at Charles University in Prague used children’s theory of mind to determine whether AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 could “pretend to be less capable than they actually are.”

To find out, the research team had models behave like children aged one to six years old while answering questions. After undergoing over 1,000 trials and cognitive tests, the “modeled child personalities” actually developed almost exactly like children of the specified age, and ultimately demonstrated that the models could pretend to be less intelligent than they were....<<<Read More>>>...