Study: People dislike stories they think were written by AI… even if they were written by humans
Stories written by the latest version of ChatGPT were nearly as good as those written…
Dangers of the metaverse and VR for US youth revealed in new research
The metaverse, a space where the lines between physical and digital realities blur, is rising…
Green Revolution redux
In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural…
GMOs could reboot chestnut trees
Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of rolling green hills stretch off into the distance.…
Introducing: The AI Hype Index
There’s no denying that the AI industry moves fast. Each week brings a bold new…
These companies are creating food out of thin air
Dried cells—it’s what’s for dinner. At least that’s what a new crop of biotech startups,…
Investing in AI to build next-generation infrastructure
The demand for new and improved infrastructure across the world is not being met. The…
Showing AI users diversity in training data can boost perceived fairness and trust
While artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as home assistants, search engines or large language models…
How refrigeration ruined fresh food
Before you buy orange juice, it probably waited, for as long as two years, in…
Would you trust AI to mediate an argument?
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