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Science and Technology April 10, 2023

Don’t bet with ChatGPT – study shows language AIs often make irrational decisions

by Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The past few years have seen an explosion of progress in large language…

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Science and Technology April 7, 2023

Meet the next four people headed to the Moon – how the diverse crew of Artemis II shows NASA’s plan for the future of space exploration

by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the four astronauts who will make up the…

Science and Technology April 7, 2023

It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don’t know what they’re saying

by Arthur Glenberg, Arizona State University and Cameron Robert Jones, University of California, San Diego, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When we asked GPT-3, an…

Science and Technology April 6, 2023

Sex, love and companionship … with AI? Why human-machine relationships could go mainstream

by Marco Dehnert, Arizona State University and Joris Van Ouytsel, Arizona State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] There was once a stigma attached to…

Science and Technology April 6, 2023

Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why it’s difficult to do and important to get right

by S. Shyam Sundar, Penn State; Cason Schmit, Texas A&M University, and John Villasenor, University of California, Los Angeles, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] From…

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Science and Technology April 5, 2023

3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms that blow today’s buildings out of the water

by James Rose, University of Tennessee, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In architecture, new materials rarely emerge. For centuries, wood, masonry and concrete formed the…

Science and Technology March 29, 2023

Watermarking ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AIs could help protect against fraud and misinformation

by Hany Farid, University of California, Berkeley, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Shortly after rumors leaked of former President Donald Trump’s impending indictment, images purporting…

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Science and Technology March 27, 2023

How do superconductors work? A physicist explains what it means to have resistance-free electricity

by Mishkat Bhattacharya, Rochester Institute of Technology, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The modern world runs on electricity, and wires are what carry that electricity…

Science and Technology March 26, 2023

Back to the Moon: A space lawyer and planetary scientist on what it will take to share the benefits of new lunar exploration – podcast

Within the next year or two, people will set foot on the surface of the Moon for the first time in 50 years. NASA Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Nehal…

Science and Technology March 16, 2023

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it

by Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array…

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