Biology
Nobel Prize for Katalin Karikó
Katalin Karikó received this year’s Nobel Prize for the application of mRNA techology to vaccines – she is the reason that we all don’t have to fear Covid-19 any more. In December 2022, I interviewed her for the Newsletter of Leopoldina, Germany’s national academy of sciences.
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Workshop Report: Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species II
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Three years ago, in August 2020, the Simons Institute co-hosted a workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species. Looking back at the titles of the talks, none used the AI buzzwords that have become household terms in the course of the last several months: ChatGPT, large language models, generative AI, chatbots. This past June, the Institute co-hosted a follow-up workshop, Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species II …