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Aligning AI with human values
Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Senior Audrey Lorvo is researching AI safety, which seeks to ensure increasingly intelligent AI models are reliable and can benefit humanity.The growing field focuses on technical challenges like ro ...[Continue Reading]
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The Tumultuous Birth of Quantum Mechanics
Phillip Ball
The wave nature of electrons is revealed in this 1993 image of ripples on a copper surface. The electrons are confined within a quantum corral made from a ring of iron atoms (peaks). The image was ...[Continue Reading]
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The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare
Grace Tiffany
Decades ago, as a young Shakespeare professor awash in a sea of books and articles about the playwright, I heeded the implicit academic injunction to publish or perish. I was expected to join the ...[Continue Reading]
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Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Over the course of summer 2023giving myself a hard deadline of Labor DayI set out to read my way through Patrick OBrians Aubrey/Maturin series of nautical adventure novels, beginning with Master and ...[Continue Reading]
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How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification
Sarah Perry
An ber-candy, the psychic template for American lollipops. A serious classic, unstoppable, good fresh and good old and good even after having melted in the car, when you have to pull the wrapper off ...[Continue Reading]
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Dr. Stone: Science Future Anime Casts Mariko Higashiuchi
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The official website for Dr. Stone: Science Future, the fourth and final season of the Dr. Stone anime series, announced on Tuesday that Mariko Higashiuchi will join the anime's cast as Maya, Stanley ...[Continue Reading]
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