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High-threshold and low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory
An end-to-end quantum error correction protocol that implements fault-tolerant memory on the basis of a family of low-density parity-check codes shows the possibility of low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory within the reach of near-term quantum processors.
- Sergey Bravyi
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- & Theodore J. Yoder
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Nature Podcast |
AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs
Machine learning detects song differences too subtle for humans to hear, and physicists harness the computing power of the strange skyrmion.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Benjamin Thompson
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Correspondence |
Three reasons why AI doesn’t model human language
- Johan J. Bolhuis
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- & Andrea Moro
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Technology Feature |
So … you’ve been hacked
Research institutions are under siege from cybercriminals and other digital assailants. How do you make sure you don’t let them in?
- Michael Brooks
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Technology Feature |
No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing
Enabling code execution in the web browser, the multilanguage tool is powerful but complicated.
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Editorial |
Why scientists trust AI too much — and what to do about it
Some researchers see superhuman qualities in artificial intelligence. All scientists need to be alert to the risks this creates.
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News Explainer |
Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI
Large language models are transforming scientific writing and publishing. But the productivity boost that these tools bring could have a downside.
- McKenzie Prillaman
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World View |
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.
- Kate Crawford
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Editorial |
Cyberattacks on knowledge institutions are increasing: what can be done?
For months, ransomware attacks have debilitated research at the British Library in London and Berlin’s natural history museum. They show how vulnerable scientific and educational institutions are to this kind of crime.
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AI chatbot shows surprising talent for predicting chemical properties and reactions
Researchers lightly tweak ChatGPT-like system to offer chemistry insight.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Editorial |
How can scientists make the most of the public’s trust in them?
Researchers have a part to play in addressing concerns about government interference in science.
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Editorial |
Computers make mistakes and AI will make things worse — the law must recognize that
A tragic scandal at the UK Post Office highlights the need for legal change, especially as organizations embrace artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making.
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Two-faced AI language models learn to hide deception
‘Sleeper agents’ seem benign during testing but behave differently once deployed. And methods to stop them aren’t working.
- Matthew Hutson
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News & Views |
Large language models help computer programs to evolve
A branch of computer science known as genetic programming has been given a boost with the application of large language models that are trained on the combined intuition of the world’s programmers.
- Jean-Baptiste Mouret
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Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
A new neuro-symbolic theorem prover for Euclidean plane geometry trained from scratch on millions of synthesized theorems and proofs outperforms the previous best method and reaches the performance of an olympiad gold medallist.
- Trieu H. Trinh
- , Yuhuai Wu
- & Thang Luong
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Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses
Researchers say their artificial-intelligence system could help to democratize medicine.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Editorial |
There are holes in Europe’s AI Act — and researchers can help to fill them
Scientists have been promised a front-row seat for the formulation of the EU’s proposed AI regulatory structures. They should seize this opportunity to bridge some big gaps.
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The AI–quantum computing mash-up: will it revolutionize science?
Scientists are exploring the potential of quantum machine learning. But whether there are useful applications for the fusion of artificial intelligence and quantum computing is unclear.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Nature Video |
Festive parody songs from the Nature Podcast
The Nature Podcast team have rewritten two popular holiday songs in honour of some of the biggest science stories of in 2023.
- Noah Baker
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AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers
Researchers call for more funding to study the boundary between conscious and unconscious systems.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Nature Video |
What ChatGPT is and what it's not: a three minute guide
A whistle-stop tour under the hood of Chat GPT in which we ask whether we should be calling LLMs intelligent in the first place
- Richard Van Noorden
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Nature Podcast |
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2023
Games, seasonal science songs, and Nature’s 10.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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Research Briefing |
Online search results can increase belief in misinformation
To counter misinformation, people are often advised to check the truth of claims by searching online. Five experiments show that this can actually increase people’s belief that false or misleading articles are true, an effect that might be driven by low-quality search results.
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Large language models direct automated chemistry laboratory
Automation of chemistry research has focused on developing robots to execute jobs. Artificial-intelligence technology has now been used not only to control robots, but also to plan their tasks on the basis of simple human prompts.
- Ana Laura Dias
- & Tiago Rodrigues
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Research Briefing |
‘Explainable’ AI identifies a new class of antibiotics
An artificial-intelligence graph neural network was trained on experimental data and used to identify chemical substructures that underlie selective antibiotic activity in more than 12 million compounds. This led to the discovery of a class of antibiotics with in vitro and in vivo activity against Gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus.
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Autonomous chemical research with large language models
Coscientist is an artificial intelligence system driven by GPT-4 that autonomously designs, plans and performs experiments by incorporating large language models empowered by tools such as internet and documentation search, code execution and experimental automation.
- Daniil A. Boiko
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DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem
Large language model improves on efforts to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models
FunSearch makes discoveries in established open problems using large language models by searching for programs describing how to solve a problem, rather than what the solution is.
- Bernardino Romera-Paredes
- , Mohammadamin Barekatain
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ChatGPT and science: the AI system was a force in 2023 — for good and bad
The poster child for generative AI software is a startling human mimic. It represents a potential new era in research, but brings risks.
- Richard Van Noorden
- & Richard Webb
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OpenAI’s chief scientist helped to create ChatGPT — while worrying about AI safety
Ilya Sutskever has played a key part in developing the conversational AI systems that are starting to change society.
- Nicola Jones
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Outlook |
This cyborg cockroach could be the future of earthquake search and rescue
From drivable bionic animals to machines made from muscle, biohybrid robots are on their way to a variety of uses.
- Liam Drew
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Comment |
ChatGPT one year on: who is using it, how and why?
In just a year, ChatGPT has permeated scientific research. Seven scientists reveal what they have learnt about how the chatbot should — and shouldn’t — be used.
- Marzyeh Ghassemi
- , Abeba Birhane
- & Francisco Tustumi
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Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials
Tool from Google DeepMind predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab.
- Mark Peplow
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Scaling deep learning for materials discovery
A protocol using large-scale training of graph networks enables high-throughput discovery of novel stable structures and led to the identification of 2.2 million crystal structures, of which 381,000 are newly discovered stable materials.
- Amil Merchant
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What the OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety
A debacle at the company that built ChatGPT highlights concern that commercial forces are acting against the responsible development of artificial-intelligence systems.
- Nicola Jones
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Essay |
How AI is expanding art history
From identifying disputed artworks to reconstructing lost masterpieces, artificial intelligence is enriching how we interpret our cultural heritage.
- David G. Stork
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Nature Index |
Hypotheses devised by AI could find ‘blind spots’ in research
Artificial intelligence is asking questions that humans hope to answer.
- Matthew Hutson
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Editorial |
Why teachers should explore ChatGPT’s potential — despite the risks
Many students now use AI chatbots to help with their assignments. Educators need to study how to include these tools in teaching and learning — and minimize pitfalls.
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ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education
Researchers, educators and companies are experimenting with ways to turn flawed but famous large language models into trustworthy, accurate ‘thought partners’ for learning.
- Andy Extance
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Perspective |
Role play with large language models
By casting large-language-model-based dialogue-agent behaviour in terms of role play, it is possible to describe dialogue-agent behaviour such as (apparent) deception and (apparent) self-awareness without misleadingly ascribing human characteristics to the models.
- Murray Shanahan
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Nature Podcast |
Nature's Take: How will ChatGPT and generative AI transform research?
Nature staff take on the big topics that matter in science.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- , Magdalena Skipper
- & Yann Sweeney
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The world’s week on AI safety: powerful computing efforts launched to boost research
UK and US governments establish efforts to democratize access to supercomputers that will aid studies on AI systems.
- Nicola Jones
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Editorial |
Why the UK-led global AI summit is missing the point
Robust regulation of AI technologies will be crucial to protecting against harms. Researchers’ voices must be heard.
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Garbage in, garbage out: mitigating risks and maximizing benefits of AI in research
Artificial-intelligence tools are transforming data-driven science — better ethical standards and more robust data curation are needed to fuel the boom and prevent a bust.
- Brooks Hanson
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How big quantum computers could keep their qubits under control
Multitasking electrodes could enable 1,000 qubits to fit onto one device.
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How robots can learn to follow a moral code
Ethical artificial intelligence aims to impart human values on machine-learning systems.
- Neil Savage
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Research Briefing |
Computer vision accelerated using photons and electrons
A single chip that integrates optical and electronic analog computing modules provides a strategy for creating all-analog computing processors with a speed and energy efficiency that are several orders of magnitude higher than those of state-of-the-art digital processors.
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AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.
- Max Kozlov
- & Celeste Biever
AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report