Nature December 28, 2022 The 50 minutes long podcast covers the following episodes: How virtual meetings can limit creative ideas; How the Black Death got its start; Research Highlights; Higgs boson turns ten; The open-science plan to unseat big Pharma and tackle vaccine inequity; Missing foot reveals world’s oldest amputation…read more.
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Rise of the robo-writers
Nature Podcast April 4, 2021 Trained on billions of words from books, articles and websites, GPT-3 was the latest in a series of ‘large language model’ AIs that are used by companies around the world to improve search results, answer questions, or propose computer code. However, these large language models are not without their issues. Their training is based on the statistical relationships between the words and phrases, which can lead them to generate toxic or dangerous outputs. Preventing responses like these is a huge challenge for researchers, who are attempting to do so by addressing biases in training data, […]
Audio long-read: Push, pull and squeeze – the hidden forces that shape life (podcast)
Nature Podcast January 28, 2021 Researchers are probing the subtle physical forces that sculpt cells and bodies. At every stage of life, from embryo to adulthood, physical forces tug and squeeze at bodies from within. These forces are vital, ensuring that cells are correctly positioned in a developing embryo. But they also play a role in diseases like cancer. Yet despite their importance, relatively little is known about how cells sense, respond to and generate these forces. To find out, researchers have turned to bespoke tools and methods, using them to probe lab-cultured cells and whole animals to get to […]
Nature Podcast highlights of 2020 (47 min)
Nature December 23, 2020 The Nature Podcast team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months. The following are covered in this this episode: Following the Viking footprint across Europe, Mars hopes, Disaster in San Quentin, Communicating complex data, ‘Stick to the science’: when science gets political…read more.