This podcast is Part 3 of a five-part series. Listen to Part 1 here and Part 2 here. The podcast series is a part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. [CLIP: Audio from Association of Air Force Missileers video: “After over 50 years of
Read MoreArtificial intelligence has been growing in size. The large language models (LLMs) that power prominent chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, are composed of well more than 100 billion parameters—the weights and variables that determine how an AI responds to an input. That’s orders of magnitude more information and code than was common
Read More
November 22, 2023 3 min read A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender By Chris Stokel-Walker Generative artificial intelligence has been touted as a valuable tool in the workplace. Estimates suggest it could increase productivity growth by 1.5 percent
Read More
This podcast is Part 4 of a five-part series. Listen to Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. The podcast series is a part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. [CLIP: Music] [CLIP: Association of Air Force Missileers video: “Minuteman III consists
Read More
This podcast is Part 5 of a five-part series. Listen to Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. The podcast series is a part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. [CLIP: Music] Jayli Fimbres: You know what’s
Read More
November 24, 2023 3 min read Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gases By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine Air conditioners around the world compress and vaporize environmentally damaging gases to cool and heat air. But a new heat pump technology could change
Read MoreAs artificial intelligence advances, experts have warned about its potential to cause human extinction. Exactly how this might come about is a matter of speculation—but it’s not hard to see that intelligent robots could build more of themselves, improve on their own designs and pursue their own interests. And that could be a threat to
Read More
November 7, 2023 3 min read A new tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors By McKenzie Prillaman & Nature magazine A new AI detection tool can accurately identify chemistry papers written by ChatGPT. A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written
Read More
November 10, 2023 4 min read As social media more frequently exposes people to brutality and untruths, we need to treat it like a consumer product, and that means product safety regulations By Laura Edelson Like many people, I’ve used Twitter, or X, less and less over the last year. There is no one single
Read More
November 10, 2023 3 min read A new facility will suck carbon dioxide from the air, showcasing the potential of a nascent industry that some say is crucial to fighting climate change By E&E News & Corbin Hiar Shashank Samala, co-founder and CEO of Heirloom Carbon, at the company headquarters in Brisbane, California, on October
Read More
