Abigail Avery

Study: AI can outperform doctors on diagnosing cases

Artificial intelligence that can “reason” is now capable of diagnosing real-life medical scenarios as well as or better than physicians, according to the results of a study published Thursday in Science. The researchers used previously unknown clinical cases to test OpenAI‘s reasoning model o1 against the company’s older model, GPT-4, as well as physicians and…

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MAGA Is Confused About ‘Animal Farm’

If you read George Orwell’s classic political satire Animal Farm in seventh grade, you probably remember the basic contours of the plot: fed up with human rule, a group of well-intentioned barnyard animals set up their own egalitarian society, with disastrous results. Published in 1945, Animal Farm has a timeless (and, certainly, contemporarily relevant) message:…

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