Description
In this week’s news roundup, we take a look at what’s happening with the Ebola outbreak in parts of Africa. Later SciAm editorial fellow Peter Hall joins host Rachel Feltman to discuss recent claims by OpenAI and Anthropic that their models have solved some of the world’s toughest math and physics problems. Plus, we dive into new research that suggests making daylight saving time permanent could put schoolchildren at risk.
0:00 Intro
0:21 Ebola update
3:47 AI does really impressive math
7:47 New research about the dangers of permanent daylight saving
10:25 Outro
Recommended Reading:
Dueling proofs from OpenAI and Anthropic astound scientists https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dueling-proofs-from-openai-and-anthropic-astound-scientists/
OpenAI just scooped mathematicians’ work on another million-dollar problem https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openai-just-scooped-human-researchers-on-a-million-dollar-quantum-math-problem/
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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Sushmita Pathak, Allison Rodgers and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was edited by Alex Sugiura, with fact-checking by Marielle Issa and Aaron Shattuck. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.