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  • AI Shows Higher Emotional Intelligence Than Humans: Study

    AI Shows Higher Emotional Intelligence Than Humans: Study

    Artificial intelligence outperformed humans in a series of emotional intelligence tests, a team of Swiss researchers said Thursday.

    Teams from the universities of Geneva and Bern administered emotional intelligence tests—originally developed to assess humans—to six different AI systems.

    The five-part test series evaluated empathy and the ability to identify, manage, and regulate emotions. The tests include emotionally charged scenarios like determining the most appropriate response when an employee’s idea is stolen at work.

    Overall, AI models gave correct answers 82% of the time, whereas the accuracy rate for human participants was only 56%.

    In the second phase of the study, researchers asked ChatGPT to generate new emotional intelligence tests.

    These AI-generated tests were evaluated by over 400 participants and were found to be as realistic as those not created by humans.

    “This suggests that these AIs not only understand emotions but also grasp what it means to behave with emotional intelligence,” said one of the researchers, Marcello Mortillaro, in a statement.

    Experts say the findings suggest AI, under expert supervision, could play a role in fields traditionally seen as uniquely human, such as education, coaching, and conflict resolution.

    The results of the study were published in the journal Communications Psychology.

  • DeepSeek Hit By Cyberattack As Users Flock To Chinese AI Startup

    DeepSeek Hit By Cyberattack As Users Flock To Chinese AI Startup

    Chinese startup DeepSeek said on Monday it will temporarily limit registrations due to a cyberattack after the company’s AI assistant amassed sudden popularity.

    The startup earlier in the day was also hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple’s App Store in the United States.

    The company resolved issues relating to its application programming interface and users’ inability to log in to the website, according to its status page. The outages on Monday were the company’s longest in around 90 days and coincides with its sky-rocketing popularity.

    DeepSeek last week launched a free assistant it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent players’ models, possibly marking a turning point in the level of investment needed for AI.

    Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which its creators say “tops the leaderboard among open-source models and rivals the most advanced closed-source models globally”, the artificial intelligence application has surged in popularity among U.S. users since it was released on Jan. 10, according to app data research firm Sensor Tower.

    The milestone highlights how DeepSeek has left a deep impression on Silicon Valley, upending widely held views about U.S. primacy in AI and the effectiveness of Washington’s export controls targeting China’s advanced chip and AI capabilities.

    Technology stocks were hammered on Monday, sending the shares of Nvidia and Oracle plummeting.

    AI models from ChatGPT to DeepSeek require advanced chips to power their training. The Biden administration has since 2021 widened the scope of bans designed to stop these chips from being exported to China and used to train Chinese firms’ AI models.

    However, DeepSeek researchers wrote in a paper last month that the DeepSeek-V3 used Nvidia’s H800 chips for training, spending less than $6 million.

    Although this detail has since been disputed, the claim that the chips used were less powerful than the most advanced Nvidia products Washington has sought to keep out of China, as well as the relatively cheap training costs, has prompted U.S. tech executives to question the effectiveness of tech export controls.

    Little is known about the company behind DeepSeek, a small Hangzhou-based startup founded in 2023, when search engine giant Baidu released the first Chinese AI large-language model.

    Since then, dozens of Chinese tech companies large and small have released their own AI models, but DeepSeek is the first to be praised by the U.S. tech industry as matching or even surpassing the performance of cutting-edge U.S. models.

  • LinkedIn Accused Of Using sing Private Messages To Train rain AI

    LinkedIn Accused Of Using sing Private Messages To Train rain AI

    A US lawsuit filed on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users accuses the social media platform of sharing their private messages with other companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.

    It alleges that in August last year, the world’s largest professional social networking website “quietly” introduced a privacy setting, automatically opting users into a programme that allowed third parties to use their personal data to train AI.

    It also accuses the Microsoft-owned company of concealing its actions a month later by changing its privacy policy to say user information could be disclosed for AI training purposes.

    A LinkedIn spokesperson told BBC News that “these are false claims with no merit”.

    The filing also said LinkedIn changed its ‘frequently asked questions’ section to say that users could choose not to share data for AI purposes but that doing so would not affect training that had already taken place.

    “LinkedIn’s actions… indicate a pattern of attempting to cover its tracks,” the lawsuit said.

    “This behaviour suggests that LinkedIn was fully aware that it had violated its contractual promises and privacy standards and aimed to minimise public scrutiny”.

    The lawsuit was filed in a California federal court on behalf of a LinkedIn Premium user and “all others” in a similar situation.

    It seeks $1,000 (£812) per user for alleged violations of the US federal Stored Communications Act as well as an unspecified amount for breach of contract and California’s unfair competition law.

    According to an email LinkedIn sent to its users last year, it has not enabled user data sharing for AI purposes in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

    LinkedIn has more than one billion users around the world, with almost a quarter of them in the US.

    In 2023, the company attracted $1.7bn in revenue from premium subscriptions.

    It has also said that the number of premium subscribers has been growing rapidly as it continues to add more AI features.

    (BBC)