The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. We tend to think of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the context of generative AI as perhaps some form ...

The education technology sector has long struggled with a specific problem. While online courses make learning accessible, ...

Click-bait and other attention-grabbing online content can cause brain rot in large language models, a new study finds. Brain rot isn’t just for humans anymore. The thoroughly modern affliction also ...

A recent study has uncovered that training artificial intelligence models on “brain rot” content—defined as low-quality, sensationalized online material—can lead to lasting cognitive damage in these ...

MIT researchers studied how using ChatGPT affects brain activity during writing tasks, comparing it to writing unaided and using a search engine. Participants who used ChatGPT showed significantly ...

In episode 74 of The AI Fix, we meet Amazon’s AI-powered delivery glasses, an AI TV presenter who doesn’t exist, and an Ohio lawmaker who wants to stop people from marrying their chatbot. Also, we ...

On top of that, participants in the brain-only group reported “higher satisfaction” with their essays, and “demonstrated higher brain connectivity” than the others. In other words, it seems Gen Z has ...

The mass posting of low-quality content on social media that can be enjoyed without using one's brain is commonly referred to as 'brain rot content.' This term is used to criticize people who are ...