AI Revolution: Simulating Human Behavior for Groundbreaking Social Science

Summary: A team of researchers predicts artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), could redefine social science research. They believe LLMs, trained on vast amounts of text data, can…

Silver phalera depicting Medusa among new finds at Roman Vindolanda |

Volunteer archaeologists excavating at Roman Vindolanda have uncovered a silver phalera depicting Medusa during this seasons excavations. Vindolanda (translated as “white field” or “white moor”) was a Roman auxiliary fort,…

Leaked European Commission document recommends softening EU regulations of gene edited crops and other products of New Genomic Techniques: “The current EU GMO regulation is not fit for purpose”

The Genetic Literacy Project did not break the confidentiality restriction set by the European Commission (EC). A draft of proposed recommendations to deregulate gene editing of crops across the EU…

2,500-year-old bronze artefacts found in eastern Poland |

A metal detectorist has uncovered a hoard of bronze artefacts during a survey in the village of Czernięcin Poduchowny, eastern Poland. The discovery was made by Łukasz Jabłoński, a licensed…

Google is weaving generative AI into online shopping features

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Google is bringing generative AI technology to shopping, aiming to get a jump on e-commerce sites like Amazon.com Inc. The Alphabet Inc.-owned company announced features Wednesday…

Twitter hit with $250 million copyright infringement lawsuit from music publishers

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A coalition of music publishers, including Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music and Sony Music Publishing, is suing Twitter over “massive copyright infringement” involving the…

Pulsars could help map the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

These annotated images, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) between March and July 2021, show stars orbiting very close to Sgr A*. Credit: ESO…

Team finds ways to harness quantum power of atomic flaws

How generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

Still from ‘All watched over by machines of loving grace’ by Memo Akten, 2021. Created using custom AI software. Credit: Memo Akten, CC BY-SA In 2022, an AI-generated work of…

Researchers manufacture first-ever droplet-etched quantum dots that glow in C-band optical light