The Download: inside animals’ minds, and how to make AI agents useful

Finding out the minds of different animals comes with a problem that human psychologists don’t normally face: Your topics can’t let you know what they’re pondering. 

To get solutions from animals, scientists have to provide you with inventive experiments to be taught why they behave the best way they do. Typically this requires designing and constructing experimental tools from scratch. 

These contraptions can vary from ingeniously easy to extremely advanced, however all of them are tailor-made to assist reply questions in regards to the lives and minds of particular species. Do honeybees want evening’s sleep? What do leaping spiders discover attractive? Do falcons like puzzles? For queries like these, off-the-shelf gear merely gained’t do. Check out these contraptions custom-built by scientists to help them understand the lives and minds of the animals they study. 

—Betsy Mason

This piece is from the latest print issue of MIT Expertise Evaluate, which is all in regards to the strange world of meals. In case you don’t already, subscribe to obtain future copies as soon as they land.

How ChatGPT search paves the best way for AI brokers

It’s been a busy few weeks for OpenAI. Alongside updates to its new Realtime API platform, which is able to enable builders to construct apps and voice assistants extra shortly, it just lately launched ChatGPT search, which permits customers to go looking the web utilizing the chatbot.

Each developments pave the best way for the subsequent massive factor in AI: agents. These AI assistants can full advanced chains of duties, akin to reserving flights. OpenAI’s technique is to each construct brokers itself and permit builders to make use of its software program to construct their very own brokers, and voice will play an essential function in what brokers will feel and look like.