How Global Science Was Set Back A Century

Modern science has yielded immense benefits to society, yet it has also suffered greatly at the hands of several major nations. Politics and ideology, not religion, have been the reason. The brutalities of Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and Maoist China effectively erased what should have been vital centers of research from the landscape of global…

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Persona Vectors Cleverly Reveal How AI Such As ChatGPT Becomes Emotionally Charged

Ferreting out AI emotional states by identifying persona vectors is a crucial new pursuit. getty In today’s column, I examine the underlying mechanisms that seem to propel generative AI and large language models (LLMs) into exhibiting emotional traits such as being angry, jealous, boastful, disgusted, and other such expressive characteristics. These are based on so-called…

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