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Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 May 2023.

Moritz v. Sivers’ clock uses a beamsplitter and retroreflective foil to make digits float and rotate in midair.

A novel laser cooling and trapping technique squeezes large numbers of molecules into a confined space while keeping them ultracold.

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A reverse polarity sunspot is shooting plasma at Earth that could create auroras as far south as the mid-latitudes of the globe on May 10 and 11.

So you are pretty sure artificial intelligence is the future and you want a job in AI before it takes yours, but you don’t know how to code or have a background in technology. Not to worry! There’s a new job you are likely qualified for, and it’s paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

What To Know: Microsoft Corp MSFT-backed ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. It exceeded 100 million monthly active users in two months’ time, making it the fastest-growing platform ever, and it’s not slowing down.

The thing about chatbots like ChatGPT is they need to be taught by humans. After a developer builds a large language model (LLM), the program needs to learn to communicate. That’s where you could come into play.

The Work Trend Index report found that leaders believe analytical judgment, flexibility and emotional intelligence are essential skills for the future of work.

Bittrex already announced its intention to exit the U.S., but also faces an SEC enforcement action.

The 2022 physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work demonstrating fundamental breaks in our understanding of the quantum world, leading to discussions around “local realism” and how it could be refuted. Many theorists believe these experiments challenge either “locality” (the notion that distant objects require a physical mediator to interact) or “realism” (the idea that there’s an objective state of reality). However, a growing number of experts suggest an alternative approach, “retrocausality,” which posits that present actions can affect past events, thus preserving both locality and realism.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics highlighted the challenges quantum experiments pose to “local realism.” However, a growing body of experts propose “retrocausality” as a solution, suggesting that present actions can influence past events, thus preserving both locality and realism. This concept offers a novel approach to understanding causation and correlations in quantum mechanics, and despite some critics and confusion with “superdeterminism,” it is increasingly seen as a viable explanation for recent groundbreaking experiments, potentially safeguarding the core principles of special relativity.

In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the universe works.