NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean(science.org)

345 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 325 comments

Science magazine news article about a NASA spacecraft mission to investigate whether Europa's salty subsurface ocean could support life; page blocked by Cloudflare check.

Scientific rigor proponents retract paper on benefits of scientific rigor(science.org)

49 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 39 comments

GLP-1 for Everything(science.org)

113 points by etiam 2 years ago | 158 comments

Seeing Faces in Things: A model and dataset for pareidolia(science.org)

58 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 38 comments

Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep(science.org)

280 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 224 comments

Human population dynamics in Paleolithic inferred from fossil dental phenotypes(science.org)

18 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 0 comments

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.

Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults(bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com)

465 points by redbell 1 year ago | 173 comments

Open-access BMC Psychiatry research article reporting a cross-sectional study linking repetitive negative thinking to cognitive function decline in older adults.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them(studyfinds.com)

323 points by mdp2021 1 month ago | 129 comments

StudyFinds article on Binghamton University research suggesting aging brains blend similar memories together rather than simply forgetting them.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.