“Explain it to me like a fifth grader.” This, or a variation of this prompt, often appears in social media circles discussing the benefits of AI at explaining complex topics in the simplest way ...

Some companies are working to remedy the issue. Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by ...

Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been ...

LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs. I think if you've used an LLM and tried to use it to extract very EXACT results with very specific context (something ...

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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about the Pascaline -- a 17th-century invention credited as the first mechanical calculator.

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis that confers increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Measured by noncontrast cardiac computed tomography, CAC ...

A Swedish team created a test that predicts severe liver disease years ahead. It could help doctors detect risk early using routine blood data. A recent study from Karolinska Institutet, published in ...