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California is on fire, can plants think?
In a recent article by Nature, philosopher Paco Calvo said that humans are so focused on “brain-centric consciousness”, “that we find it difficult to imagine other kinds of internal experience”. Calvo added that artificial intelligence is not a big deal in UK academia. He further said that Black people and those from other marginalised ethnicities…
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Vaccines and treatments for RSV are coming soon.
There’s just five Black professors in UK biosciences, one in chemistry and none in physics, according to a study published in Nature. Black representation at the undergraduate level has been climbing since 2007, but at postgraduate research level, the number of Black people drops sharply, it added. The study stated that there are 0.6% Black…
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Nuclear waste will power a spaceship.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas at Galveston have found evidence that COVID-19 was more common in a predominantly Black area of US’ Buffalo than the official tolls suggest. The study, published in Nature, showed that the death toll was 2.7 times higher in African-Americans than in Caucasians. COVID-19 has…
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Academics should be worried about the writing of intelligent essays by an artificial intelligence bot.
A study conducted by Nature has revealed that “artificial intelligence” tools are used in education and may end up as essays. It found that some of the AI tools used could catch students using AI for things they shouldn’t, whether that’s work emails or College essays. It said the systems don’t have “intelligence in the…