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A team of Apple researchers has found that advanced AI models’ alleged ability to “reason” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

“Reasoning” is a word that’s thrown around a lot in the AI industry these days, especially when it comes to marketing the advancements of frontier AI language models. OpenAI, for example, recently dropped its “Strawberry” model, which the company billed as its next-level large language model (LLM) capable of advanced reasoning. (That model has since been renamed just “o1.”)

But marketing aside, there’s no agreed-upon industrywide definition for what reasoning exactly means. Like other AI industry terms, for example, “consciousness” or “intelligence,” reasoning is a slippery, ephemeral concept; as it stands, AI reasoning can be chalked up to an LLM’s ability to “think” its way through queries and complex problems in a way that resembles human problem-solving patterns.

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An achievement that was deemed impossible has successfully become accomplished. For the first time in history, DNA can be edited. One of the goals is to be able to get rid of genetic diseases. This whole concept in genomic science has opened up a whole new revolutionary way of dealing with such critical health issues. There is a possibility that illnesses that were once incurable have a chance to be curable.

MedlinePlus provides a definition and states that a collection of tools known as genome editing, or gene editing, allows researchers to alter an organism’s DNA. These technologies enable the addition, deletion, or modification of genetic material at specific genomic regions. A person’s DNA can be altered through gene editing to fix mistakes that lead to illnesses.

CRISPR-Cas9, short for CRISPR-associated protein 9 and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a well-known example as one of the approaches used and developed by scientists to edit DNA. The scientific community is very excited about the CRISPR-Cas9 system since it is more accurate, efficient, quicker, and less expensive than existing genome editing techniques.

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(Nanowerk Spotlight) In the world of athletic performance and outdoor sports, the gear athletes wear can make or break their ability to perform.

Smart nanofabric integrates impact protection, real-time health monitoring, and radiative cooling into a lightweight, durable textile for advanced sportswear.

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The world’s largest maker of advanced chips has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of a global race to develop artificial intelligence.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares hit a record high after the chipmaker topped quarterly estimates and raised its target for 2024 revenue growth, allaying concerns about global chip demand and the sustainability of an AI hardware boom.

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