Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what makes them smarter: the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online. A new study published Thursday by research group Epoch AI shows that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by the … Read more
AI weather The consequence of the Great Storm of 1987 was not only the loss of 15 million trees. It shook the nation’s confidence in weather forecasting. After all, who can forget when weatherman Michael Fish infamously declared to viewers who feared a hurricane was coming, “Don’t worry, there isn’t one!” Fortunately, almost forty years … Read more
In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his groundbreaking discovery in creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the discovery was too good to be true; Dr. Hwang had fabricated the data. Science publicly retracted the paper and assembled a team to investigate what went wrong. Withdrawals … Read more