Tamed

Mathematician Who Tamed Randomness Wins Abel PrizeMichel Talagrand innovative work has allowed others to tackle problems involving random processesBy Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazineMichel Talagrand, Abel Prize Laureate, 2024. Credit: © Peter Bagde/Typos1/Abel Prize 2024A mathematician who developed formulas to make random processes more predictable and helped to solve an iconic model of complex phenomena has won the 2024 Abel Prize, one of the field’s most coveted awards. Michel Talagrand received the prize for…

For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on Wednesday, maths provided a fun life free from all constraints – and an escape from the eye problems he suffered as a child. "Maths, the more you do it, the easier it gets," the 72-year-old said in an interview with AFP. He is the fifth French Abel winner since the award was created by Norway's government in 2003 to compensate for the lack of a Nobel prize in mathematics. Talagrand's career in functional analysis and probability theory saw him tame some of the…

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Bernardine Evaristo Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The GuardianChatGPT seems to have blindsided us all. In less than a year it has proved that it can make writers redundant, which is one of the reasons why the Writers Guild of America recently went on strike, and why a group of novelists, including Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult and George RR Martin, are pursuing a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company that owns the chatbot. The worry is that its monster brain is rapaciously, unscrupulously scanning the internet and suctioning up…

By Washington University in St. Louis May 6, 2023Research from Washington University in St. Louis calls for a reappraisal of the process of plant domestication, based on almost a decade of observations and experiments. The behavior of erect knotweed, a buckwheat relative pictured here, has WashU paleoethnobotanists completely reassessing our understanding of plant domestication. Credit: Natalie Mueller / Washington University in St. LouisThe story of how ancient wolves became humanity’s closest companions by the campfire…

Breton, an EU official proposed specific rules regulating products like chatGPT to mitigate risks ChatGPT, the versatile AI chatbot has become one of the fastest-growing consumer applications and at the same time has raised serious concerns about the lack of regulations, for ChatGPT in particular and AI in general. ChatGPT is a generative AI model, and most of the problems arise due to the lack of proper data sets that train them. The biases, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies account for harmful content. On the other…

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The burst of flavor from summer’s first sweet corn and the proud stance of a show dog both testify to the power of domestication. But so does the microbial alchemy that turns milk into cheese, grain into bread, and soy into miso. Like the ancestors of the corn and the dog, the fungi and bacteria that drive these transformations were modified for human use. And their genomes have acquired many of the classic signatures of domestication, researchers reported in two talks this month…

Mastering fire cleared the way into whole new worlds for early humans – from accessing more nutrients through cooking (fueling an increase in brain size), to making the dark hours useful, and surviving migrations into harsher climates.  How and when this mastery happened, however, has been lost to time, with fragments of burnt material hinting our flame taming may have begun up to 1.5 million years ago. Now, scientists used AI to detect hidden clues of campfires from a Lower Paleolithic site in Israel, dating back to…