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Nvidia stock has surged by more than 700% since the start of last year, boosting CEO Jensen Huang’s wealth by about $93 billion.
From Google Research.
Item-Language Model for Conversational Recommendation.
Large-language Models (LLMs) have been extremely successful at tasks like complex dialogue understanding, reasoning and coding due to their emergent abilities.
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The widely held view that sperm counts in men are dropping around the world may be wrong, according to a new study by University of Manchester, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and Cryos International, Denmark.
In a development at the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity, researchers have made significant strides toward unraveling the mysteries of quantum gravity. This work sheds new light on future experiments that hold promise for resolving one of the most fundamental enigmas in modern physics: the reconciliation of Einstein’s theory of gravity with the principles of quantum mechanics.
Rising costs of living and education have presented unique challenges for Gen Z. NYU Professor of Marketing Scott Galloway describes the inequities in opportunity and education young people face, while offering possible solutions. #Education #GenZ #WSJ
Casting and seeking crew for “The Call,” a sci-fi feature where earth has been sending out ships and probes for years, until now there have been no returns. Until.
Scientists are calculating earthquake risk using an ISI-created system that automates and manages data-and compute-intensive research.
Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentaries. You can read the rest of the series here.
It is true that the next pandemic is a matter of “when,” not “if.” The statistical certainty of a future pandemic has led to increasing research into potential pandemic pathogens so that we may create lifesaving countermeasures. Such research, unfortunately, also carries a risk of bringing about exactly what it seeks to prevent. Human error or even deliberate action is as likely to be the cause of the next pandemic as natural origin. Such concerns have intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, which a significant percentage of the US population, at least, believes began with a research accident, one of the two main pandemic origin theories, with the other being the jump of a virus from animals to people. The question then for governments and the research community is how to build confidence in the valuable work that scientists do through appropriate regulation.
While research with favorable risk-benefit profiles must be facilitated, high-risk research of either limited benefits or benefits for only a limited few must be seen through a different regulatory lens.
