Artificial intelligence keeps on taking the community at large by surprise, especially the large language models with the advanced capabilities they tend to offer, surpassing expectations. Tech giants like OpenAI are increasingly focused on bringing more efficient AI models and pushing the potential of the technology further to do many of the mundane tasks on consumers' behalf. While we have been hearing about the vast application of the tools in varied domains, a recent study evaluated how these models tend to perform on emotional intelligence, and the results are not something you would be expecting. A team of researchers conducted a study with findings suggesting that AI is capable of processing and understanding human emotions even better than humans Companies and researchers are increasingly invested in finding ways in which artificial intelligence can be used to bring more efficiency and different ways it can be used in institutions. OpenAI and many other tech giants are arduously working towards making their models feel more natural with capabilities like contextual understanding. A recent study has been conducted by University of Geneva and University of Bern researchers to find out about AI's empathetic capabilities. The study that has been published in Communications Psychology delivered some interesting findings that pointed towards generative AI models like ChatGPT not only demonstrating emotional intelligence but also outperforming humans in emotional intelligence tests. The study involved a series of tests with the six leading large language models, including ChatGPT-4, ChatGPT-o1, Gemini 1.5 Flash, Claude 3.5 Haiku, Copilot 365, and DeepSeek V3. The study further involved five emotional tests that were generally used in academics and professionally to see emotional understanding, regulation, and management. The situations presented were realistic and emotionally charged ones to see how the models would respond based on the emotional context provided. The results left the researchers baffled as all the LLM models outperformed the human participants significantly. The researchers even went a step ahead by asking ChatGPT-4 to create new EI test items, which were validated by human participants as well, and the results remarkably remained the same, with the AI models demonstrating a high level of contextual understanding. One of the Senior Researchers, Marcello Mortillaro,  had the following to say on the findings: LLMs are therefore not only capable of finding the best answer among the various available options, but also of generating new scenarios adapted to a desired context. This reinforces the idea that LLMs, such as ChatGPT, have emotional knowledge and can reason about emotions. These findings are vital, especially if we see how the technology is increasingly exceeding expectations in domains previously exclusive to humans. This could have great broader implications in terms of augmenting human skills in sensitive fields such as conflict management or coaching. Deal of the Day #new #study #reveals #chatgpt4 #other