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A study pitting human children against large language models in basic reasoning problems revealed AIs to have one big blind spot: innovation.

Tally for Humanity

"Unlike large language and language-and-vision models, children are curious, active, self-supervised, and intrinsically motivated."

In New Experiment, Young Children Destroy AI at Basic Tasks

A recent study found that LLMs are incredibly good steganographers, able to obscure their own thought processes through "encoded reasoning."

Tomhankscore

Oh wow.

AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans

According to a new study, people might be a little too willing to believe existential personality label-makers — particularly in machine form.

What's Your Sign

Neuroscience/Brain Science

There's a very important lesson here.

People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly

A team of Cambridge scientists say dyslexia encourages creativity and innovation and could lead to humanity's success as we evolve.

Curious Cat

Studies

"The deficit-centered view of dyslexia isn’t telling the whole story."

Dyslexia Actually Grants Special Powers, Researchers Say

A group of researchers were able to alter the genes of unfertilized mice embryos so that it could create offspring without male sperm.

Hallelujah!

It’s a miracle... of science!

Scientists Breed Jesus Mice With No Father

Scientists in Spain have successfully created an implant that allowed a blind patient to see by directly stimulating her brain’s visual cortex.

Blind Sight

A blind woman was able to “see” for the first time in 16 years. 

New Brain Implant Lets Blind Patient See Without Eyes

The CDC released a study on Friday indicating that attempted suicides amongst teenaged girls rose sharply during the pandemic.

Absolute Tragedy

The rise specifically occurred with teenage girls.

CDC Study: Teen Suicide Attempts Spiked During the Pandemic

A new proposed study will look into the anti-aging effects of Type 2 Diabetes drug metformin — and potentially give us a way to slow down aging for good.

Fountain of Youth

Treatments

"What we are saying is that we can delay aging."

Scientists Suspect This Drug Can Actually Delay Aging

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.

Zoom Out

Even more, there are ways to prevent it — or at least mitigate its damage.

Study: "Zoom Fatigue" Exists—and It Totally Sucks

A facility that bottles the AstraZeneca coronavirus into glass vials was temporarily on lockdown today after a suspicious package arrived.

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