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In a new paper from OpenAI, the company proposes a framework for analyzing AI systems' chain-of-thought reasoning to understand how, when, and why they misbehave.

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...