Artificial Intelligence has suddenly gone from the fringes of science to being everywhere. So how did we get here? And where's this all heading? In this new series of Science Friction, we're finding out.
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The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #968 January 31st 2024 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Neuralink Implants Chip in Human https://theness.com/neurologicablog/neuralink-implants-chip-in-human/ News Item #2 – Love on the Brain https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240112114712.htm News Item #3 – Amelia Earhart Plane May Be Discovered https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/travel/amelia-earhart-missing-plane-pacific-ocean-scn/index.html News Item #4 – Hiding Sickness https://neurosciencenews.com/social-behavior-contagious-sickness-25540/ News Item #5 – Cicada Double Brood https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/cicadas-emergence-broods-xix-xiii-scn/index.html Segment #2. Who’s That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Moon Mission Question #2: Microgel Insulin https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961220307043?via%3Dihub Segment #4. Interview with Dustin Bates https://www.instagram.com/starsetsingerguy/?hl=en Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Animal Emotions Item 1: Most rats will stop pulling a lever to deliver a preferred treat if that lever also gives a fellow rat a small electric shock. Item 2: A recent study shows that goats are able to tell the difference between happy sounding and angry sound human voices. Item 3: Capuchin monkeys are one of the few non-human animals to be shown to cry emotional tears. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "If you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, "Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong." Kathryn Schulz, columnist The New Yorker - author of the book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #968 January 31st 2024 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Neuralink Implants Chip in Human https://theness.com/neurologicablog/neuralink-implants-chip-in-human/ News Item #2 – Love on the Brain https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240112114712.htm News Item #3 – Amelia Earhart Plane May Be Discovered https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/travel/amelia-earhart-missing-plane-pacific-ocean-scn/index.html News Item #4 – Hiding Sickness https://neurosciencenews.com/social-behavior-contagious-sickness-25540/ News Item #5 – Cicada Double Brood https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/cicadas-emergence-broods-xix-xiii-scn/index.html Segment #2. Who’s That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Moon Mission Question #2: Microgel Insulin https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961220307043?via%3Dihub Segment #4. Interview with Dustin Bates https://www.instagram.com/starsetsingerguy/?hl=en Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Animal Emotions Item 1: Most rats will stop pulling a lever to deliver a preferred treat if that lever also gives a fellow rat a small electric shock. Item 2: A recent study shows that goats are able to tell the difference between happy sounding and angry sound human voices. Item 3: Capuchin monkeys are one of the few non-human animals to be shown to cry emotional tears. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "If you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, "Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong." Kathryn Schulz, columnist The New Yorker - author of the book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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