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One of the top 10 "people" of the year in Nature this year is really not human.
ChatGPT made the list as a "non-human" in recognition of the important role AI plays in scientific progress.
Along with ChatGPT, its inventor and a key figure in OpenAI's palace fight drama - former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
Nature believes that for better or worse, AI, represented by ChatGPT, will "become a new force."
It represents a potential new era of research, but it also comes with risks.
In addition to AI, medicine and life sciences are also hot topics in the scientific community, with four out of ten scientists engaged in such research.
In addition, in the field of room-temperature superconductivity, which exploded this year, scientists have also been nominated.
So, which ten scholars have written a strong stroke on the history of human science with ChatGPT?
ChatGPT与Ilya一同入选
ChatGPT was selected independently of 10 human scientists, and it is also the first non-human entity to be included in Nature's annual list.
Nature explains that the addition of non-human entities is a recognition of the role that AI can play in the development and progress of science.
ChatGPT has had a profound and wide-ranging impact on science in many ways, and Nature has described it as a "shocking human imitator".
ChatGPT works with humans to write scientific papers, draft presentations and course outlines, write computer code, and ...... For some researchers, ChatGPT has become an "invaluable lab assistant."
Although some scientists have long recognized the potential of large models, for many members of the public, the power of large models has been revealed with the release of ChatGPT, according to Nature.
However, Nature's announcement also devotes a third of the page to the ChatGPT controversy, discussing issues such as copyright, illusion and bias, and opacity.
But it is undeniable that for better or worse, large models represented by ChatGPT have become a force.
In Nature's words, the generative AI revolution has begun, and there's no turning back.
In addition to ChatGPT itself, its creator, Ilya, is also on this list.
Nature称他是有远见的AI学者——
Ilya played a central role in the development of ChatGPT, but beyond that, he was on the list because of his long-standing focus on AI safety.
In July, he shifted the focus of OpenAI's R&D efforts to a four-year "super alignment" project, using 20% of its computing power to guide and control ChatGPT.
But the contradiction between security and rapid development has triggered OpenAI's palace fighting turmoil, and Ilya is just on the cusp of this incident.
After Ultraman's return, Ilya was removed from OpenAI's board of directors, and her subsequent whereabouts are unknown.
But in academia, Ilya has a great reputation –
Hinton, the godfather of AI, spoke highly of Ilya, saying that in addition to his technical ability, he has a strong "moral compass" and is very concerned about the safety of AI.
All 4 people studied life-related
In the field of life sciences and medicine, a total of four scholars have been selected for this year's list.
Katsuhiko Hayashi：重新定义繁殖
Hayashi is a developmental biologist at Osaka University in Japan.
In March, Hayashi's team cultivated viable mouse eggs from male cells, a task that many researchers considered nearly impossible.
Previously, Hayashi and his team had devised methods to induce mouse stem cells to turn into immature eggs or oocytes, which were then matured, fertilized, and born to live pups.
Nature's editorial staff said the feat could help save an endangered species.
Address: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05834-x
Svetlana Mojsov:"被埋没"的药物开发者
A new class of diet drugs, appetite suppressants called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), have taken clinics by storm in the United States and catapulted some pharmacologists to fame.
But according to Nature, there was one early pioneer who didn't get the recognition he deserved: Mojsov.
Mojsov is from Rockefeller University in the United States.
She played a key role in identifying and characterizing the active form of GLP-1, but was rarely mentioned in related reports and was not awarded to Mojsov for numerous awards.
Thanks to Mojsov's tireless efforts, her work was finally recognized, but she considered it secondary and her main task was to continue her research on GLP-1 and related proteins.
Halidou Tinto：疟疾斗士
Tinto hosts a research institute in a rural area of Burkina Faso, a West African country.
The institute was instrumental in the approval of a malaria vaccine.
In October of this year, a vaccine called R21, which the Tinto team has been testing, was recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
R21 is expected to be available throughout Africa as early as mid-2024.
Thomas Powles：癌症探索者
Powles is a cancer researcher at a hospital in London.
His breakthrough in the treatment of fatal bladder cancer could herald the next wave of powerful immunotherapy drugs.
He has developed a cancer treatment called an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), which uses a combination of two drugs to treat bladder cancer patients, which was approved by the FDA this year.
This combination appears to extend the median survival time of patients from about one year and four months to two and a half years compared to standard chemotherapy.
What other scholars are on the list?
A few months ago, a room-temperature superconductivity technology captured the world's attention, so this year's list includes scholars who study superconductivity.
He is James Hamlin, a physicist at the University of Florida in the United States, known as the "superconducting detective" by Nature.
In March, Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, published a paper in Nature claiming the discovery of a new room-temperature superconducting material.
Hamlin helped discover flaws in the paper, which was retracted in November.
Other scientists on the list include eco-friendly academics Marina Silva and Eleni Myrivili, aerospace engineer Kalpana Kalahasti and nuclear fusion researcher Annie Kritcher.
Oncologist Monica M. Bertagnolli, molecular biologist Muhammad Masroor Alam, geologist Colin Waters, and materials scientist Ilan Gur were named scholars to watch in 2024.
What do you think of ChatGPT's selection?
Reference Links:
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-03919-1/index.html
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