Share this on WhatsApp An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them, according to a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server in late December1. Researchers are divided over the implications for science. “I am very worried,” says Sandra Wachter, who studies technology and regulation […]
Share this on WhatsApp Scientific American April 2020 The naive answer is that white men and scientists are coldly rational—but that’s not the whole story Scientists often complain that people are irrational in their opposition to technologies such as nuclear power and genetically modified (GM) crops. From a statistical perspective, these are very safe, and […]
Share this on WhatsApp An extinct tree grows in India’s Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. Well, it’s not exactly extinct. But the small, flowering tree species, known only as Wendlandia angustifolia, has had a long history of going unnoticed. Scientists collected the first specimen of the plant in 1867, then didn’t observe it again until 1917. After […]
