Researcher talks nonsense to ChatGPT to understand how it processes language
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This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.
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Low-income students who received a preschool intervention focused on social-emotional development continued to benefit from it during their teen years according to a recent study published in the journal Child Development. The researchers, led by Karen Bierman, Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State, found that their Head Start Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) intervention improved students’ behavior and mental health during high school.
Researchers Mostafa Bedewy, at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, and Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, at Rutgers University, have received a $549,947 collaborative National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study new ways of controlling the formation of alumina-supported iron nanoparticles by using machine learning (ML) to efficiently model, characterize, simulate, and predict their growth. Their research seeks to advance understanding of these particles to improve nanomanufacturing.
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have developed a new image sensor made of perovskite. This semiconductor material enables better colour reproduction and fewer image artefacts with less light. Perovskite sensors are also particularly well suited for machine vision.
Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their niche to include African forests and deserts. The authors argue that human populations learning to adapt to new and challenging habitats was key to the long-term success of this dispersal.