Lab Notes

Who’s Zoomin’ Who?

Amidst the many claims that AI will result in major scientific advances it is instructive to see just how quickly such technologies have been adopted across scientific communities. Writing in Smithsonian Magazine, Margherita Bassi reveals […]
Learning Settings

Learning Alone

The growing use of AI tools by students may have the unintended effect of isolating them from faculty and peers. Writing in The Markup, Tara GarcĂ­a Mathewson notes that as students come to rely on […]
Data Analytics Research

Beyond Dreams of AGI

Humans are incredibly good at anthropomorphizing all manner of entities. Even very young children attribute human character and capacities to pets, stuffed animals, and inanimate objects. Adults attribute gender and related human characteristics to ships, […]