A few people have asked, so here is the whole tour schedule.

Image-making bots tend to amplify our stereotypes. Their pictures often look like “a strange kind of 1950s middle-class suburbia,” says media scholar Roland Meyer Roland Meyer is @bildoperationen.bsky.social snexplores.org/article/ai-ima…

How the work in our lab Berkeley Speech & Computation is relevant to whales: "Then, in December, Project CETI’s linguist, Gašper Beguš, Ph.D. ’18, took the understanding of click complexity further, revealing the presence of acoustic properties in codas that are analogous to the vowels and

Gašper Beguš Berkeley Speech & Computation Thanks for info, here is link .. harvardmagazine.com/harvard-resear…

Very cool research in nature - African elephants use names. nature.com/articles/s4155… News story: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Big news! The simulated message from space sent as part of the project A Sign in Space 2023 was finally decoded. Congrats to all involved! Daniela de Paulis seti.org/decoding-messa…

Is your LLM hallucinating? 👻 Our nature paper shows how to detect when an LLM is making things up. A 'confabulating' LLM answers with inconsistent meanings when re-asked the same question. We use this to estimate uncertainty and detect confabulations. Learn more 🧵👇 1/

Developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), new algorithm discovers language just by watching videos news.mit.edu/2024/denseav-a… #TechForGood Dev Khanna Dr Efi Pylarinou Spiros Margaris Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #Vivatech Jean-Baptiste Lefevre Tony Moroney BusinessIntelligence Franco Ronconi 🇮🇹 Eveline Ruehlin Estela Mandela Mike Flache Nicolas Babin Fabrizio Bustamante

Should we use #AI to resurrect digital “ghosts” of the dead? My interview with Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basinska about the ethics of griefbots is out in the new print issue of Science News Dr Tomasz Hollanek Read it online here: sciencenews.org/article/artifi…

New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC

Excited to announce our new work to protect endangered frogs from the devastating chytrid fungus pathogen has been published in Nature! Macquarie University University of Melbourne Schmidt Science Fellows American Australian Association nature.com/articles/s4158…

‼️FUNGUS ID REVEALED‼️ 26 days ago the mysterious #PurplePastaSauce fungus arrived in Morgantown for identification. Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) and I were equally curious to identify this stranger than fiction spiky purple cat butt morphotype that was discovered growing on the lid of a

This is so cool! A 3D printed basketball that never needs inflating because it's made a of an elastic polymer. snexplores.org/article/airles…

Can you find the toad? It was invisible to me until it hopped!

Interesting example of disturbing AI behavior! A villager seems like the trunk of a tree, so VPT chops it up... I covered this team's research in a story about alignment and #AI safety for Science News Explores snexplores.org/article/artifi…

Interesting sights in the woods this morning #nature

Did you know that generating one image using AI can draw as much energy as fully charging a smart phone? Here are two stories I've written for teens about #AI #energy and #climate open.substack.com/pub/kathrynhul…

Today's NYT article by Yuval Harari repeats "GPT-4 Hired Task Rabbit Worker to Solve Captcha" story & concludes "This incident demonstrated that GPT-4 has the equivalent of a 'theory of mind'." Time to re-up my fact-check of this oft-repeated story. ⬇️