Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff
ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (www.nature.com)
Observation of an Alice ring in a Bose–Einstein condensate - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago: a new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals. (www.nature.com)
Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert (www.nature.com)
From the lab to the World Cup: meet footballer–scientist Michelle Alozie (www.nature.com)
The professional athlete and research technician explains why focus, collaboration and teamwork are important on and off the pitch.
A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? (www.nature.com)
Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds (www.nature.com)
Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert (www.nature.com)
WHO’s first traditional medicine summit splits opinions (www.nature.com)
Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July and what comes next (www.nature.com)
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty (www.nature.com)
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery (www.nature.com)
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery (www.nature.com)
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1522825...
Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human brain and memory - Cell Death Discovery (www.nature.com)
AI for identifying social norm violation (www.nature.com)
Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....
Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0 (www.nature.com)
A 25-year science wager has come to an end. In 1998, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that the mechanism by which the brain’s neurons produce consciousness would be discovered by 2023. Both scientists agreed publicly on 23 June, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of...
A trial finds that a dose of the psychedelic psilocybin administered with psychological support is a safe and acceptable treatment for patients with anorexia nervosa and may decrease eating-disorde... (www.nature.com)
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a deadly illness with no proven treatments to reverse core symptoms and no medications approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Novel treatments are urgently needed to improve clinical outcomes. In this open-label feasibility study, 10 adult female participants (mean body mass index 19.7 kg...
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (www.nature.com)
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the climate system and a future collapse would have severe impacts on the climate in the North Atlantic region. In recent years weakening in circulation has been reported, but assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...
Study that followed thousands of people over 25 years has identified proteins linked to the development of dementia if their levels are unbalanced during middle age. (www.nature.com)
Potential for surprising heat and drought events in wheat-producing regions of USA and China (www.nature.com)
Swiss scientists successfully diverted lightning with a laser (www.nature.com)
Swiss scientists successfully diverted lightning with a powerful laser (www.nature.com)
Swiss scientists successfully diverted lightning with a powerful laser::Lightning discharges between charged clouds and the Earth’s surface are responsible for considerable damages and casualties. It is therefore important to develop better protection methods in addition to the traditional Franklin rod. Here we present the...
Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections (www.nature.com)
Just ran into a link to this article from another medium. While I realize this is speculations, it’s still a summary of models that look at the risk of concurrent global crop failures....
