ChatGPT takes an IQ test, rampant fungus, why we love to spin around

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March 28, 2023

Artificial Intelligence I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here's What I Discovered The chatbot was the ideal test taker—it exhibited no trace of test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort. And what about that IQ score? By Eka Roivainen

Epidemiology Cases of a Drug-Resistant Fungus Tripled during the COVID Pandemic Stress on health care facilities might have accelerated outbreaks of the hard-to-treat yeast Candida auris By Philip Kiefer

Animals Why Primates (Including Humans) Love to Spin Ourselves around until We All Fall Down The menagerie that twirls and twirls includes gorillas, bonobos and, yes, us humans By Shayla Love

Health Care Smell-Loss Tests Could Reveal Health Problems Unlike other senses, smell is not something doctors routinely test for—but some scientists think that should change By Hannah Docter-Loeb

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Artificial Intelligence Music-Making Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Scary Good Google’s new AI model can generate entirely new music from text prompts. Here’s what they sound like. By Allison Parshall | 15:31

Climate Change Will Humans Ever Go Extinct? It’s probably a matter of when and how, not if, we humans will meet our doom By Stephanie Pappas

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE Artificial General Intelligence Is Not as Imminent as You Might Think A close look reveals that the newest systems, including DeepMind’s much-hyped Gato, are still stymied by the same old problems By Gary Marcus | July 2022

WHAT WE'RE READING U.S. Teens Say They Have New Proof for 2,000-Year-Old Mathematical Theorem New Orleans students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson recently presented their findings on the Pythagorean theorem By Ramon Antonio Vargas | The Guardian | Mar. 24, 2023

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