Summary: New research shows that prenatal exposure to cannabis can negatively impact children’s thinking and behavioral skills, including impulse control, attention, and aggression, which are key for academic and social…
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Storytelling study provides a window into the inner workings, ongoing limitations of generative AI tools like ChatGPT
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Imagine you decide to write a short story about a protagonist who creates an artificial human and then falls in love with it. What gender is…
How Curiosity Styles Shape Wikipedia Use and Learning
Summary: A study of global Wikipedia browsing patterns reveals three curiosity styles: the focused “hunter,” the exploratory “busybody,” and the creative “dancer.” Data from 482,760 readers in 50 countries shows…
Novel liquid acoustic sensor mimics whale melon to recognize voices in noisy environments
A self-filtering liquid acoustic sensor for voice recognition. Credit: Xun Zhao/ UCLA Jun Chen Research Group. In recent years, engineers have developed a wide range of increasingly sophisticated sensors for…
How AI still divides actors and studios
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A bruising months-long Hollywood strike helped secure actors and writers some protection from AI, but a year after those ructions studios and creatives are still divided…
Waymo ramps up robotaxi push with $5.6 bn in funding
Waymo plans to have its self-driving taxis on the road soon in two more US cities as it cautiously expands operations. Waymo on Friday said it raised $5.6 billion from…
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Assistant professor of information science Allison Koenecke, an author of a recent study that found hallucinations in a speech-to-text transcription tool, works in her office at Cornell University in Ithaca,…
Graphene-enhanced 3D-printed concrete reduces carbon emissions by 31%
This visualisation shows layers of graphene used for membranes. Credit: University of Manchester Researchers from the University of Virginia have made significant strides in the rapidly advancing field of 3D-printed…
Hyperspectral image sensors help characterize polymers in electronic waste to improve recycling
Polymers and other materials move on a conveyor belt test track at speeds of up to one meter per second while beeing sequentially scanned by multiple sensors. Credit: Dr. Margret…
