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What happens when scientists trust AI more than colleagues?
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (573+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to supporting financial forecasts. A similar shift is now unfolding inside research laboratories. There is currently a boom…...
AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn't ready for the new risks this brings to biology
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (581+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. This is'programmable biology: designing biological components on a computer and building them in the…...
Artificial Metacognition: Giving An AI The Ability To "think" About Its "thinking"
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (565+ words) Have you ever had the experience of rereading a sentence multiple times only to realise you still don't understand it? As taught to scores of incoming college freshmen, when you realise you're spinning your wheels, it's time to change your…...
AI Disruptions Reveal The Folly Of Clinging To An Idealised Modern University
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (863+ words) Now, with generative AI disruptions, we are seeing a similar desire to cling to an idealised vision of the modern university. AI has unsettled long-established forms of assessment, simultaneously'instigating a return to older assessment models'in the interest of "academic integrity....