Chris Simms

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When given information about its human opponents, the large language model GPT-4 was able to make particularly convincing arguments

May 18, 2025 | 08:00PM

AI is more persuasive than people in online debates
MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults

March 19, 2025 | 08:00PM

Babies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years?
Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of years ago in Egypt

January 30, 2025 | 08:00PM

‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins
Mice injected with a microRNA molecule lived longer and had fewer markers of ageing, but it’s not yet known if the treatment would work in people

January 16, 2025 | 08:00PM

RNA molecule rejuvenates ageing mice by restoring old cells

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