ScientistPankaj: Tech: How does ChatGPT think?

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Tech: How does ChatGPT think?

Scientific American

May 21—This week, paint that can scrub pollutants from the air, teeny microphones inspired by spiderwebs, and a push to create science fiction that depicts helpful, non-threatening artificial intelligence. All that and more below!

--Ben Guarino, Associate Editor, Technology

How New Science Fiction Could Help Us Improve AI

We need to tell a new story about AI, and fiction has that power, humanities scholars say

A small blue sphere orbits a larger blue sphere on a purple and blue background, with

AI Is Getting Creepier, and Risky Cheese Is Getting Trendier

A rare geomagnetic storm lit up skies, eerie AI demonstrations and a cautionary word about raw milk.

Rachel Feltman; Kelso Harper

Photo illustration, interface of 'Reddit' is being displayed on a mobile phone screen in front of a red background

AI Tool Predicts Whether Online Health Misinformation Will Cause Real-World Harm

A new AI-based analytical technique reveals that specific language phrasing in Reddit misinformation posts foretold people rejecting COVID vaccinations

Joanna Thompson

Spiderweb Thread Inspires Ultrasmall Microphones

Sound recording could take a cue from arachnid acoustics

Elizabeth Anne Brown

Illustration, colorless and featureless mannequin head and bust on a light gray background

The Missing Human in Misinformation Fixes

Misinformation solutions target a rational, ethical ideal who doesn't exist; to combat misinfo, we need to start with a richer concept of the human

Illustration of 'self-cleaning' paint and what it can clean up, including pollution.

This Paint Could Clean Both Itself and the Air

Recycled materials contribute to a potential pollutant-neutralizing paint

Kate Graham-Shaw

Computer representations of the new Dream Chaser spaceplane

A Brand-New Spacecraft Will Visit the International Space Station Soon

Sierra Space's Dream Chaser is set to make its inaugural trip to orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station

An astronaut cleaning up the garbage in space.

There Is Too Much Trash in Space

Debris from spacecraft threatens the burgeoning space economy. We need a global agreement to keep space clean

Quantum Internet Milestone Takes Entanglement Out of the Lab and into Cities

It's a "big deal" to demonstrate entangled quantum networks outside a lab

Davide Castelvecchi; Nature magazine

Cartoon of a large brain-shaped machine made of many computer parts being examined by two puzzled researchers

How Does ChatGPT Think?

Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the "brains" of LLMs to deduce the how any why of that they are doing

Matthew Hutson; Nature magazine