✍️Science Writing News Roundup #142
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and their potential in health care: A primer for journalists.
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Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and their potential in health care: A primer for journalists. The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has made headlines across various industries including health care since its November release, garnering 100 million users in its first two months.
Why environmental health is public health: The impact of spills, runoff, emissions and soil contamination goes far beyond the environment and often affects the health of people who may live, work or travel in the vicinity.
Could GPT-4’s language capabilities exacerbate disinformation and threaten jobs? The founder and CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, fears advanced artificial intelligence tools like his company’s could substantially amplify disinformation.
Book Review: How Misinformation Acts Like a Virus: In “Foolproof,” psychologist Sander van der Linden argues that we can deploy a cognitive vaccine against propaganda.
Interview: John Branch Forms a Rich Story Out of Fog’s Hazy Future. Shi En Kim interviews Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist John Branch about his multimedia feature “The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog.” As Kim writes, “The foggy notion of fog led Branch to talk to unexpected sources for his article, imbuing the piece with idiosyncratic characters and details. He also sows wonder for the weather pattern with lyrical prose amid the hard scientific facts.”
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Health Storytelling Q&A | Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
Timothy Ferris: Turning science into masterful stories — from Stephen Hawking to Voyager and beyond
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Rethinking the Interview In an Unequal World, Do We Need New Rules? A Kavli Conversation with Tara Haelle and Naseem Miller, moderated by Robin Lloyd. (April 5, 2023)
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