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Chatbot in a modern GPU card 3D rendering

^{Type
brief

News
Date
March 10, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), John West, Kitzmiller case, Stockholm Syndrome (Discovery Institute 2025)}

Chatbot offers info on a legal case — too bad it’s mostly fiction

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March 10, 2025

3

Large Language Models (LLMs)}

After the test, West cautioned that those who don’t know that AI-based services can be even more biased and inaccurate than other sources are asking for trouble Read More ›

The Triumphal Arch in Chisinau - Moldova

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brief

Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 4, 2025

Categorized
Media, Politics

Tagged
AEECA/ESF PD, Moldova, Russia, United States}

The U.S. government has been funding European journalism too

_{Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2025

3

Media, Politics}

If the U.S. funds Moldova's media instead of Russia, the basic problem remains: A foreign government is funding the public news service. Read More ›

Astronauts exploring an asteroid 3D rendering elements of this image furnished by NASA

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brief

News
Date
March 1, 2025

Categorized
Global Technology, Technology

Tagged
James B. Meigs, NASA shakeups, Victor Tangermann}

How NASA might change under the new U.S. Administration

_{News
March 1, 2025

3

Global Technology, Technology}

Coming to terms with NASA’s problems means tough decisions and some wrong calls. But the former editor of Popular Mechanics remains optimistic. Read More ›

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brief

News
Date
February 28, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Martha Lewis, Melanie Mitchell}

New study: Computer profs nix claim that chatbots think as we do

_{News
February 28, 2025

2

Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

If it becomes clear that AI will never think like humans, would the industry ever be ready for an honest discussion of the fact? Read More ›

Gambusen / Moskitofisch (Gambusia sp. / Gambusia cf. holbrooki) zur Bekämpfung von Moskito-Larven, Griechenland - mosquitofish for the control of mosquito larvae in Greece

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brief

News
Date
February 28, 2025

Categorized
Animal mind, Evolution

Tagged
Ivan Vinogradov, Mosquitofish}

Did sexual selection make male mosquitofish really smart?

_{News
February 28, 2025

2

Animal mind, Evolution}

Sexual selection — and natural selection — only show why smartness might be an advantage. They don’t explain how the trick is done. Read More ›

Small orange flags places in grass in memory of the thousands of Indigenous children that died in Canada's residential school system. Wide view.

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brief

Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 25, 2025

Categorized
Censorship, Politics

Tagged
Private truth, Residential schools (Canada)}

Ottawa ceases funding the search for phantom graves

_{Denyse O'Leary
February 25, 2025

3

Censorship, Politics}

Misinforming children is a very small part of the damage that private truth, which is incompatible with an open and science-based society, does. Read More ›

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brief

News
Date
February 25, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships

Tagged
Amy Kurzweil, Chatbots of the dead, Daniel Story, Featured}

Turning the writings of deceased loved ones into chatbots

_{News
February 25, 2025

3

Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships}

An industry is springing up to help survivors create an imaginary being that resembles the deceased — except for when they want to change it. Read More ›

^{Type
brief

News
Date
February 25, 2025

Categorized
Genetics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Prenatal medical treatment, Richard Finkel, Smriti Mallapaty, Spinal muscular atrophy}

Gene therapy treats preborn girl for motor neuron disease

_{News
February 25, 2025

3

Genetics, Medicine and Health}

Richard Finkel, first author of a study of the case, hopes that this early-start approach can be applied to other cases and other diseases as well. Read More ›

A man confides his psychological distress to her robotic assistant. Concept of psychological support thanks to AI.

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brief

News
Date
February 25, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Medicine and Health

Tagged
Henry I. Miller, Psychiatry}

Can AI replace psychiatrists? Some programmers are trying…

_{News
February 25, 2025

2

Large Language Models (LLMs), Medicine and Health}

Given how health insurers will love the crashed costs, the next big mental health fight may be for the right to get in front of an actual human therapist. Read More ›

A trio of woolly mammoths trudges over snow covered hills. Behind them, mountains with snow covered peaks rise above dark green forests of fir trees. 3D Rendering

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brief

News
Date
February 21, 2025

Tagged
Brian Handwerk, Kostenki site, Mammoth bone circles, Tibi Puiu}

Mammoth bone structure of 24,000 years ago illuminates Stone Age

_{News
February 21, 2025

3

Uncategorized}

One of about 70 such structures, it is, in one science writer's view, "one of the most surreal ancient structures ever built." Read More ›

^{Type
brief

News
Date
February 21, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Anil Ananthaswamy, Chatbots and AGI}

Programmers admit fundamental limits to chatbot thinking

_{News
February 21, 2025

3

Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Curiously, that’s not what the AI celebs are saying. They're promising the moon. We can believe the celebs or the hands-on programmers. Read More ›

The Spread of Misinformation on Social Media, Examining the role of social media in the dissemination of false information and its consequences on society

^{Type
brief

News
Date
February 21, 2025

Categorized
Censorship, Disinformation, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Andrew Torrance, Hallucination (AI), Jeff Hancock, misinformation, Morgan Kromer}

Misinformation scholar becomes a star example of the problem

_{News
February 21, 2025

2

Censorship, Disinformation, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Starting the day with a bit of natural irony: A misinformation expert was found to be inadvertently using fake citations in a court case. Read More ›

^{Type
brief

News
Date
February 20, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Peer Review

Tagged
Retractions (by nation), Richard Van Noorden}

Which universities have the most science papers retracted?

_{News
February 20, 2025

2

Ethics, Peer Review}

Chatbots may make the problem harder to spot but one outcome of attempts to address the problem is a spike in new research integrity tools. Read More ›

Servers data center room with bright bokeh light going through the corridor 3D rendering

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brief

News
Date
February 20, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy

Tagged
Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, Google selling data}

Wired: Google ads target sensitive user info, despite rules

_{News
February 20, 2025

3

Business and Finance, Data Privacy}

The more a data set can pinpoint specific users, the more profitable it will be to acquire and sell. Read More ›

Studio office house the laptop Camera and drone gear for editor man or freelance Vlogger

^{Type
brief

News
Date
February 18, 2025

Categorized
Social Media

Tagged
Ethan Zuckerman, Ryan McGrady et al., Thomas Germain, YouTube statistics}

Researchers reveal some closely guarded YouTube secrets

_{News
February 18, 2025

3

Social Media}

The median number of views for one of YouTube’s nearly 15 million videos is only 41 and only 0.21% are monetized. It’s mostly Amateur Hour. Read More ›

A pile of research journals and books on a desk, with sticky notes marking important studies

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brief

News
Date
February 17, 2025

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), Peer Review, Science

Tagged
Cyril Labbé, Frederik Joelving, Guillaume Cabanac, Model collapse (science papers), Problematic Paper Screener}

Are fake science papers becoming a danger, not just a nuisance?

_{News
February 17, 2025

3

Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), Peer Review, Science}

AI automates frauds that would have taken much longer to perpetrate using traditional methods — but researchers are developing screening tools to combat fakery. Read More ›

Party Background with lights, confetti, balloons and serpentine

^{Type
brief

Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 17, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Ben Fritz, Konstantin Dobler, Noor Al-Sibai, Roi Cohen}

Could chatbot goofs be developed into a party game?

_{Denyse O'Leary
February 17, 2025

3

Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Gemini informed her that she was married to a guy she’d never heard of who had died in the 1980s. But think of the entertainment potential… Read More ›

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brief

News
Date
February 16, 2025

Categorized
Religion, Science

Tagged
Barry Arrington, Eratosthenes, Flat earth claims}

Did people really think Earth was flat centuries ago?

_{News
February 16, 2025

4

Religion, Science}

Lawyer Barry Arrington shows that fashionable supporters of Darwin were attempting to weaken the influence of Christianity by constructing such myths. Read More ›

AI chatbot robot assistant sitting at desk using computer as artificial intelligence. Business concept. AI generated

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brief

Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 14, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Law, Media

Tagged
Allstate, Futurism, Victor Tangermann}

Allstate demands that tech mag delete evidence of AI e-mails

_{Denyse O'Leary
February 14, 2025

2

Business and Finance, Law, Media}

Allstate needs to remember: If the shout hits the fan, don’t start threatening media. Nothing spreads the story faster or guarantees it more publicity than that Read More ›

Side view close-up, apple on laptop, healthy snack based on fruit.

^{Type
brief

News
Date
February 14, 2025

Categorized
Education

Tagged
Charter schools, Keri Ingraham, National test scores, School choice}

U.S. educational test scores remain low, despite public funding

_{News
February 14, 2025

2

Education}

Ingraham thinks competition among education options will help improve schools. but parent oversight is still needed. Charter schools, for example, may fail. Read More ›