Tag: research
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China is taking the lead in international science: A new study shows how China overtakes the US in key areas of research and increasingly dominates the agenda. What does this… more ›
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Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of… more ›
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China is taking the lead in international science: A new study shows how China overtakes the US in key areas of research and increasingly dominates the agenda. What does this… more ›
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In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies – and the tech oligarchs that run them –… more ›
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In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html more ›
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OpenAI and Apollo Research tried to stop models from lying – and discovered something else altogether. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-models-know-when-theyre-being-tested-and-change-their-behavior-research-shows/?ref=platformer.news more ›
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Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same… more ›
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In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/brain-neuroscience-computers-speech.html?utm_source=semafor more ›
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Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in… more ›