AI chatbots struggle to understand cultural context, a new study finds

In an exclusive look at new research from Cohere Labs, even the best-performing AI models failed to solve riddles rooted in local cultures. Worse, they rarely admitted when they didn’t know the answer.

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AI models often struggle to understand cultures around the world, and are reluctant to admit when they don’t know something. That’s what researchers at Canadian AI lab Cohere found when they tested whether chatbots could do more than simply speak a culture’s language. To determine whether models possessed deeper cultural knowledge, they presented them with a series of unique cultural riddles.

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