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Science and Technology April 13, 2023

Robots are everywhere – improving how they communicate with people could advance human-robot collaboration

by Ramana Vinjamuri, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information…

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Science and Technology April 13, 2023

Is the US in a space race against China?

by Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Air University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Headlines proclaiming the rise of a new “space race” between the U.S. and China have…

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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…

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…

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