My biotech plants are dead
by MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review— This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Six weeks ago, I pre-ordered the “Firefly Petunia,” a houseplant engineered with genes from bioluminescent fungi so that it glows in the dark. After years of writing about…
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MIT Technology Review—The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my biotech plants. Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool helps you figure out which ones to trust. The news: Large language models are famous for their ability to make things up—in fact, it’s what they’re best at. But their inability to tell fact from fiction has left many businesses wondering if using them is worth…
PIX11—1 dead and multiple injured in New Jersey manufacturing plant fire: police. MIDDLESEX COUNTY, N.J. (PIX11) — One woman is dead, and several others severely injured in a Wednesday morning fire at a manufacturing plant located in Old Bridge Township, N.J., police say.