ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (www.nature.com)
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip (www.nature.com)
Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says (www.nature.com)
It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life (www.nature.com)
Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999
To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth (www.nature.com)
Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty (www.nature.com)
‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy (www.nature.com)
Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)
The climate crisis is solvable, but human rights must trump profits (www.nature.com)
The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation (www.nature.com)
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)
Argentina election: front runner vows to slash science funding (www.nature.com)
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)
We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.
Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know. (www.nature.com)
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)
Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval — but no one knows how they work (www.nature.com)
Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals (www.nature.com)
A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been silently spreading in US cattle for months, according to preliminary analysis of genomic data. The outbreak is likely to have begun when the virus jumped from an infected bird into a cow, probably around late December or early January. This implies a protracted, undetected...
Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5 °C of warming (www.nature.com)
Huge new satellite outshines nearly every star in the sky (www.nature.com)
Octopuses used in research could receive same protections as monkeys (www.nature.com)
For the first time in the United States, research with cephalopods might require approval by an ethics committee.
A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe (www.nature.com)
Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet (www.nature.com)
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (www.nature.com)
