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Quantum Computers Are All 'Terrible' – Researchers Aren't Worried
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Quantum Computers Are All 'Terrible' – Researchers Aren't Worried

Even scientists who have made quantum computers their life's work say they can't do anything useful — yet. "They're all terrible," says University of Sussex physicist...

College is Remade as Tech Majors Surge, Humanities Dwindle
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College is Remade as Tech Majors Surge, Humanities Dwindle

Higher education institutions are seeing rising enrollment in computer science at the same time interest in humanities is declining.

Workers More Willing to Accept Incompetent Bosses Who Are Older
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Workers More Willing to Accept Incompetent Bosses Who Are Older

Workers are more willing to accept an incompetent boss who is older and more experienced than themselves, but less likely to accept incompetence if the boss isJournal...

AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less
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AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less

A simple test can settle the raging debate about whether code generation AI products will create or destroy more jobs for developers.

DEFCON to Set Thousands of Hackers Loose on LLMs
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DEFCON to Set Thousands of Hackers Loose on LLMs

This year's DEFCON AI Village will include an event where hackers will be tasked with finding bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google...

Comparing Five AI Coding Models
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Comparing Five AI Coding Models

Here is a comparison of four of the most advanced AI bots that can write code: GPT-4, Bing, Claude+, and Bard. Although not technically similar, GitHub Co-Pilot...

Researchers Develop A Wood Transistor
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Researchers Develop A Wood Transistor

Researchers at Linköping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a transistor made of conductive wood, a possible step toward bio-based...

Team's 'Quantum Composites' Increase Ability to Store Electricity
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Team's 'Quantum Composites' Increase Ability to Store Electricity

A team of electrical engineers and material scientists at the University of California, Riverside has demonstrated materials that may result in advancements in...

Reddit Moderators Brace for a ChatGPT Spam Apocalypse
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Reddit Moderators Brace for a ChatGPT Spam Apocalypse

Reddit moderators have noticed an increasing number of posts that carry the hallmarks of AI-generated text. Rooting out the content will require "a lot of human...

Double-Anonymous Peer Review Reduces Reviewer Bias, Trial Finds
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Double-Anonymous Peer Review Reduces Reviewer Bias, Trial Finds

A randomized trial comparing double- and single-anonymous peer review methods indicates that reviewer bias is reduced when both author and reviewer identities are...

China's Fake Science Industry: How 'Paper Mills' Threaten Progress
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China's Fake Science Industry: How 'Paper Mills' Threaten Progress

Experts say that China's impressive output of published scientific research papers masks systemic inefficiencies and an underbelly of low-quality and fraudulent...

The Lone Developer Problem
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The Lone Developer Problem

Code written by a single developer is usually hard for others to maintain later.

Silicon Valley Layoffs Mean D.C. Is Hotter Tech Hiring Market
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Silicon Valley Layoffs Mean D.C. Is Hotter Tech Hiring Market

Layoffs by technology giants and startups have created a windfall for nontechnology companies in Washington, D.C., and New York City starved for software engineers...

Trust Is Hard to Restore After Robot Co-Worker Makes Mistakes
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Trust Is Hard to Restore After Robot Co-Worker Makes Mistakes

Humans are less forgiving of robot co-workers after multiple mistakes — and the trust is difficult to restore, a University of Michigan study says.

Replacing a SQL Analyst With 26 Recursive GPT Prompts
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Replacing a SQL Analyst With 26 Recursive GPT Prompts

Ken Van Haren describes experimenting with GPT-3 to see if it could entirely replace a dreaded "analytics on-call" rotation.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Raises Alarm Over Student Cheating
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Raises Alarm Over Student Cheating

Universities need new ways to assess and respond to threats to academic integrity posed by AI tools that students could use to cheat on written assignments.

Study Finds AI-Assisted Code Is More Likely to be Buggy
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Study Finds AI-Assisted Code Is More Likely to be Buggy

Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who...

Computer Vision Tech Assesses Proper Mask Wearing
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Computer Vision Tech Assesses Proper Mask Wearing

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT used a computer vision algorithm in a system to measure adherence to and provide real-time feedback on mask...

Are ChatGPT and AlphaCode Going to Replace Programmers?
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Are ChatGPT and AlphaCode Going to Replace Programmers?

OpenAI's ChatGPT and DeepMind's AlphaCode can now produce meaningful lines of code, but software engineers shouldn't switch careers quite yet.
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