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This Week: Neutrino Detection, Baltic Blasts, Fevers, Galaxies, Forever Chemicals, Big Eyes, Animal Personalities, Pee Shyness, Depression, Otters, Mice Imaging, Language Brains, And Much More Science!
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AI is changing everything.
Well, maybe not everything yet.
But it’s just getting started.
And already there are questions…
The academic world is struggling to keep up
With students who may be brilliant
But write like a robot.
Or students who skipped the required reading
Yet turned in a perfectly astute essay.
If a teacher uses an AI detector to determine a real from generated paper
Are they the ones cheating?
If AI is used for grading papers, is that cheating?
AI is a powerful research tool, and that is not cheating
If your research paper is entirely AI-generated, that seems like cheating.
But what if you guided the AI in some way.
Does it still count if its finding are validated?
What if they are not?
AI recently predicted several hundred million protein folds
based off of single sequences
But how accurate are they?
If they are close enough to accurate is it science?
How close?
If they are not close is it still science?
A car drives off a cliff or runs over a pedestrian.
Was it driver error?
Was the driver even the driver?
Does that even matter for assigning fault?
Are deep-fakes fraud or free speech?
Is AI based stock trading a tool, or is it cheating the system?
As AI based trading becomes increasingly popular and automated,
Is having an AI based economy wise?
We humans live in world of words,
what does it mean if we aren’t the ones generating those words?
Interpreting those words?
What jobs will be left for humans to perform when knowledge-based word generation
and automated physical systems are everywhere?
What’s even worse, what if one day AI replaces…
This Week in Science
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Some quick science news!
Neutrino Detection
Researchers confirmed neutrino detection at the LHC with a 16-sigma confidence signal.
Baltic blast
Resuspending toxic sediment
Let the fever burn!
Fevers exist for a reason, evolutionarily. So do we suppress them?
Flipping Galaxies!
Why did the quasar become a blazar?
Removing forever chemicals
This begs the question; should the name be changed?
What Big Eyes
Why did a marsupial saber tooth have cow eyes?
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Blair’s Animal Corner
Animal personalities can mess up science
How do we make sure we’re studying a species and not a personality trait?
Are you pee-shy?
Maybe you lost a fight recently?
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What science news does Justin have?
Gut enzyme
Linked to depression
T. gondii at it again
Killing otters
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Some Quick Science stories with Kiki!
Microscopes For Mice
Miniaturized microscopes have been developed for imaging the spinal cord… of active mice.
Language Brains
How do the languages we speak influence connections in our brains?
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