TIL psychedelics supposedly work by desynchronizing the brain (www.nature.com)
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (www.nature.com)
Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor — bewildering scientists (www.nature.com)
Your microwave oven has its own microbiome (www.nature.com)
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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature (www.nature.com)
It is now clear that generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models (LLMs) is here to stay and will substantially change the ecosystem of online text and images. Here we consider what may happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the text found online. We find that indiscriminate use of...
So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it? (www.nature.com)
FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics? (www.nature.com)
But Marks points out that the FDA typically follows the advice of its independent advisory committees — and the one that evaluated MDMA in June overwhelmingly voted against approving the drug, citing problems with clinical trial design that the advisers felt made it difficult to determine the drug’s safety and efficacy. One...
How pregnancy transforms the brain to prepare it for parenthood (www.nature.com)
Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them (www.nature.com)
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