MADRID (EFE).— The generative artificial intelligence ChatGPT made it into the list of people who have starred in the most significant moments in science in 2023 for the magazine “Nature”, which this year expanded the “top 10” to 11 to include to a non-human for the first time.
The “top 10” includes, among others, Marina Silva, Brazilian Minister of Environment, and Kalpana Kalahasti, a scientist involved in the Chandrayaan-3 mission, which made India’s first successful landing on the Moon.
Although ChatGPT “is not a person and does not fit neatly into the ‘Nature’ 10, we have expanded our list to recognize the profound way in which generative artificial intelligence is altering the development and progress of science,” writes the editor-in-chief of the publication, Richard Monastersky.
That tool, he adds, “has dominated the news this year and its influence has been felt throughout science and society.”
“ChatGPT. Benefit or burden?” is the title of the article that the magazine dedicates to artificial intelligence, which, it is stated, “represents a potential new era for science.”
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The program, he adds, has had “in many ways” a “profound and far-reaching effect on science in the last year,” but the technology is also dangerous and automated conversational agents “can help cheaters and plagiarists, could irreversibly dirty the well of scientific knowledge.
But, above all, it has captured people’s imagination. “Obedient, attractive, entertaining, and even terrifying, ChatGPT took on whatever role her interlocutors wanted, and some that didn’t,” the article states.
Its capabilities could still be limited by the availability of computing power or new training data, warns the “Nature” text, “but the generative AI revolution has begun, and there is no turning back.”
The importance of artificial intelligence this year also places one of its pioneers in position six on the list, Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist of the company OpenAI and who is recognized for his fundamental role in the development of ChatGPT and linguistic models. that support it.
The “Nature” list is headed by the associate project director of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, Kalpana Kalahasti, who helped engineer India’s first successful Moon landing, making it the fourth country to He achieves it.
Marina Silva takes second place. The minister, according to the magazine, took political measures that “helped reduce deforestation in the Amazon, after an alarming increase in recent years, and to rebuild the institutions weakened by the previous government” of Jair Bolsonaro.
Also linked to the environment, in fifth place is the UN’s first global heat official, Eleni Myrivili, who is helping countries prepare for the destructive effects of climate change.
Developmental biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi, from Osaka University, is in third place, because together with his team he produced baby mice for the first time from the cells of two male mice, “which could help save species from the brink.” of extinction.”
Physicist Annie Kritcher, from the American National Ignition Facility (NIF), occupies fourth place for the development of experiments that managed to trigger a nuclear fusion reaction that generates more energy than it consumes.
The failures of science and who helps solve them also occupy a place on the list this year. James Hamlin, a physicist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, spotted problems with a seemingly astonishing result on room-temperature superconductivity, a study that has since been retracted.
Advances in biomedicine are represented by three researchers. In eighth place is biochemist Svetlana Mojsov, who decades ago played a crucial role in the discovery of GLP-1.
Popular anti-obesity medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy are based on this hormone. “Nature” recognizes the struggle of this researcher so that “her contributions, which had gone unnoticed, are finally recognized.”
In ninth place is the director of the Nanoro Clinical Research Unit (Burkina Faso), Halidou Tinto, who led the clinical trials that helped obtain the approval of a vaccine that “could represent a great advance in reducing infections and deaths.” due to malaria.”
The list is closed by Thomas Powles, an oncology researcher at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, for a clinical trial that announces “an important advance in the treatment,” among others, of bladder cancer.
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2024-04-09 21:08:29