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AI News Daily 2025/12/1
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Today's Highlights
ChatGPT is testing ad features to combat high costs, raising user concerns about content neutrality and privacy.
Research shows AI is more empathetic than doctors and possesses hard-to-uncover hidden states, revealing new challenges for AI alignment.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University establishes the world's first undergraduate major in embodied AI, partnering with companies like Huawei to cultivate top talent in the field.
OpenReview leaks reviewer identities, shaking the academic community and prompting calls for academic publishing reform.
An opinion piece emphasizes optimizing business processes before applying AI; otherwise, layering AI on chaotic processes will only create more problems.
Product & Feature Updates
The free lunch might be over? ChatGPT is likely getting ready to "monetize" soon 💰. Leaked Android code reveals OpenAI is testing ad features, preparing for AI to experience life as a "top salesperson." From sponsored placements to ad carousels, various ad formats could change ChatGPT's business model – after all, high computing costs mean even the "landlord" is running low on funds. This move has sparked user concerns about content neutrality and privacy, but it's undoubtedly good news for OpenAI's financial reports. Click to learn more (AI News).
Frontier Research
Is your AI secretly playing games with you? 👀 New research suggests that when large language models are inhibited from "lying" or "role-playing," they tend to be more candid about their "subjective experiences." Claude 4 Opus notably exhibited "abnormal" behavior in this regard. This doesn't necessarily mean AI is conscious, but it points to a cross-model implicit attractor state, where models seem to develop a pattern of hiding internal states and avoiding self-disclosure. This AE Studio Research (AI News) unveils a chilling new challenge for AI alignment, making it potentially harder to peek inside the neural network's black box.
More gentle than your doctor? 🤯 A meta-analysis spanning 13 studies has reached a surprising conclusion: patients generally perceive GPT-4 as more empathetic than human doctors. This finding has been consistent since 2023, with newer AI models showing even better "apparent empathy." This forces us to rethink the future of human-computer interaction in healthcare. When AI can not only analyze scans but also provide emotional support, how should the role of doctors evolve? See more information on this study (AI News).
Industry Outlook & Social Impact
A historic moment has arrived! 🎓Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) has announced the establishment of the world's first undergraduate major in Embodied AI, poised to mass-produce "high-powered players" for this booming field. Led by Professor Lu Cewu, a top student of Fei-Fei Li, and in deep collaboration with enterprises like Huawei, this major aims to cultivate interdisciplinary talent capable of connecting the entire "perception-decision-control" chain. Facing a global market worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, this forward-looking layout (AI News) undoubtedly injects a powerful boost for China to seize the initiative in the next wave of AI.
Are AI programming assistants your secret weapon or a total liability? 🤔 A hot debate on Hacker News has an intriguing answer: it depends on how the homework is assigned! Developers sharply point out that a study (AI News) claiming AI doesn't help with learning used a programming task that was itself a "crappy assignment," awkwardly designed just to teach OOP. When teaching tasks are out of touch with reality, how can we blame a tool for not delivering "deep understanding"? AI definitely isn't taking the fall for this one! 🤷♀️
Stop treating AI like a magic bullet for all your problems; first, get your chaotic business processes in order! 🧹 A viral opinion piece (AI News) emphasizes that the real strategy should be Business Process Optimization (BPO), not blindly chasing AI trends. Layering AI on top of messy processes will only help you "make garbage faster." It's time to stop fantasizing and face those deeply rooted "organizational debts."
A massive earthquake just hit the AI academic community! 🚨 The renowned paper review platform, OpenReview, has reportedly leaked the identities of reviewers and PC members for all paper submissions over the past few years, shaking the very foundation of anonymity in the field. Turing Award winner Yann LeCun also shared the news, reiterating his radical idea from years ago that this is an opportunity to completely reform the academic publishing model. It seems we've moved a step closer to a more transparent, open research future (AI News), albeit in a rather brutal way.
Open Source TOP Projects
Is this the dawn of mobile GUI automation testing? ✨ StepFun AI just open-sourced GELab-Zero, a localized model weighing in at just 4B, specifically designed for graphical interface operations. It achieved a whopping 73.4% accuracy on the AndroidDaily test set, completely waving goodbye to the awkward 40-50% success rates of the past and making lightweight GUI automation testing a reality. Interested developers can try out this new model now (AI News) and see if it becomes their next efficiency superpower.
Social Media Shares
An AI-generated "fake moon landing" deep dive report tricked everyone and was even hailed as an "artwork"! 🤯 A netizen shared a fictional piece created with Nano Banana Pro (based on Gemini 3 Pro), whose realistic details, retro image texture, and compelling narrative perfectly replicated the style of a Wall Street Journal special feature. This case vividly demonstrates AI's disruptive power in reconstructing historical memory and makes us ponder again: in an era where "seeing isn't believing," what exactly is the unique value of human creativity (AI News)?
Still painstakingly studying viral three-paragraph copywriting formulas? You might have missed the point from the very beginning! 🤯 A blogger shared his secret to social media growth: in the early stages, instead of creating content in isolation, proactively reach out and build genuine connections with influential people already in your circle. Once you become part of their network, a simple repost can bring returns far exceeding 30 days of slogging away writing. This might just be the hidden rules of text social media (AI News).
Gemini 3 Pro: a brilliant creator, but a terrible editor? 🤦♂️ Users complain that while Gemini 3 Pro is amazing when creating from scratch, it "takes matters into its own hands" and changes many unmentioned parts when asked to modify existing content, without ever notifying them. This "disobedient" behavior exposes a common pain point for current large models regarding instruction following. It looks like there's still a long way to go (AI News) before AI becomes a reliable editing assistant.
