hkl @hkl@qoto.org

5 reasons why including ChatGPT in your list of authors is a bad idea

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/scientists-please-dont-let-your-chatbots

"I build little people out of acorns and sticks, then photograph them in the wild with real animals.
Join me as I share my process of building and photographing.
Learn more and buy prints at www.davidmbird.com."

https://youtube.com/channel/UC6q7I1DD2Jv5Ur9UEIavIrA/

#birds #wildlife #critters

oh look ChatGPT really does save time!

How do snowflakes form? Is each snowflake really unique? Why is some snow light and fluffy or heavy? The amazing science of snow https://theconversation.com/how-do-snowflakes-form-is-each-snowflake-really-unique-why-is-some-snow-light-and-fluffy-or-heavy-the-amazing-science-of-snow-196269 #Ice #Snow #Winter #Atmosphere #Science

Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationCA/status/1613608258702565376?s=20

Comet NEOWISE rising over the Earth just before dawn as seen from the International Space Station.

Yet another AI reproducibility / reliability / generalizability crisis, this time in medicine

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00023-2

Chronic Ca2+ imaging of cortical neurons with long-term expression of GCaMP-X. https://elifesciences.org/articles/76691?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

The vOICe for Android version 2.65 is now at 99.21% crash-free users, and it looks like this percentage is still going up; crashes are annoying but harmless: you just restart the app; will brain implants for vision have 99.21% seizure-free users?

A role for the claustrum in cognitive control
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00223-6

#neuroscience

Brandolini's Law is terribly frustrating. 😖

Ice Eggs beach. Thousands of balls of ice cover a beach in Finland due to a phenomenon that occurs when ice is rolled over by water and wind. 💙

Physics didn’t take away your free will, and quantum mechanics didn’t give it back. I won't try to convince you of one point of view or another about free will in general. I’m a physicist, and what I'll explain why, no matter which viewpoint you choose, the cold, impersonal laws of physics didn’t take away your free will – nor did quantum mechanics give it back by changing our ideas about randomness.
https://bcrowell.github.io/free_will/
#physics #FreeWill #philosophy #neuroscience

There’s a difference between underlying (latent) truth and syntax, even if the syntax is very high quality.

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“got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that #ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together.” @bibliotecaria

https://blacktwitter.io/@bibliotecaria/109650353375080864

Academia’s lost luster prompts exodus of health researchers to industry | @NatureMedicine #Industry [Image in article]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02088-4

How students reliably score A grades with #chatgpt. But also how to but it to #creative use! Getting those #prompts right is hard.
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RT @schwa_umlaut
If you're interested in #chatGPT's implications for higher education, I wrote a brief thing about it.
https://www.evernote.com/l/ANUVVSZTP0pB8KBfWKUsY02yE53le0TiZyo/
https://twitter.com/schwa_umlaut/status/1611282269309632513

How #sleep shapes what we remember—and what we forget. Researchers are starting to decode the #neural changes during sleep that underlie #LongtermMemory. A PNAS news feature: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220275120 #neuron #synapse #hippocampus #brain

Lack of visual experience affects multimodal language production: evidence from congenitally blind and sighted people https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13228 "blind people's speech focused more on path and less on manner of motion, and encoded paths in a more segmented fashion using more landmarks and path verbs"; #blind #neuroscience #linguistics

The brain's ability to perceive space expands like the universe https://www.salk.edu/news-release/the-brains-ability-to-perceive-space-expands-like-the-universe/ "neural networks responsible for spatial perception change in a nonlinear manner"; #neuroscience