Medscape February 6, 2025
An Israeli study suggesting leading artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots suffer from mild cognitive decline has caused a kerfuffle in the field, as critics dismissed the conclusion as unreasonable because bots aren’t built to reason like the human brain is.
Since his first term as President, Donald Trump has repeatedly bragged about how he “aced” a widely used screening test for mild cognitive impairment. Trump has often recited his responses — “person, woman, man, camera, TV” — to demonstrate his mental fitness.
Researchers in Israel subjected this test to some leading AI chatbots and found Trump outperformed the machines.
The study’s lead author confessed to having some fun with a serious message. “These findings challenge the assumption that artificial intelligence will...
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