Nature named Science Person of the Year, and AI was on the list

Mondo Education Updated on 2024-01-29

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Nature's Top 10 People of the Year selects 10 people each year from major scientific events around the world, and this year there is another non-human on the list - ChatGPT.

Richard Monastsky, editor-in-chief of Nature's feature section, said: "The story of these ten people and one AI tool encapsulates the most important advances in science in 2023. ”

Pursue excellence in the field of scientific research.

Many of this year's names have achieved remarkable results from their teams. Physicist Annie Kritacher, chief designer of the National Ignition Device, developed an experiment that for the first time produced a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed. Scientists are working hard to achieve "ignition" in order to make nuclear fusion a viable energy source, and fusion reactions will only continue if the self-heating mechanism overwhelms all energy losses.

Katsuhiko Hayashi, a developmental biologist at Osaka University in Japan, and colleagues have cultured mouse cubs for the first time using cells from two male mice. The seven mice born in the experiment were bred entirely from the genetic material provided by the fathers of the two mice. The inspiration from this study may lead to future fertility research.

In addition, Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist at OpenAI and AI pioneer, made the list for her key role in developing ChatGPT and its underlying large language model. Kalpana Kalahasti, deputy director of the Indian Space Organization's Chandrayaan-3 program, helped complete India's first mission to the moon.

Committed to resolving global issues and academic disputes.

The two people on this year's list try to solve problems that have global significance. Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva, has taken policy action to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. The rate of deforestation in the world's largest tropical rainforest has been alarmingly high over the past few years.

Eleni Myrivili, the UN's first global chief heat officer, is helping countries cope with the devastating effects of climate change and raising awareness that heat is a crisis that needs attention.

Another person on the list helped expose the flaws of a seemingly brilliant study earlier this year: James Hamlin, a physicist at the University of Florida in the United States, pointed out the problem with room-temperature superconductivity**. The claim that superconducting materials can be created at room temperature and under certain pressures and can be used for practical applications has been retracted.

Advancing critical advances in biomedicine.

The three people on this year's list have driven key advances in biomedicine. Clinical trials led by Dr. Halidou Tinto, an expert in parasitology and head of clinical research at Nanoro in Burkina Faso, led the approval of a vaccine that dramatically reduces malaria infection and mortality.

The results of a clinical trial conducted by Thomas Powles, a cancer researcher at St Bartholomai's Hospital in London, heralded significant advances in bladder cancer and other cancers**, and his efforts have made bladder cancer** more successful than ever before, showing the power of "first-class" antibodies.

Biochemist Svetlana Mojsov has finally recognized her important contribution decades ago in the discovery of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), on which the current best-selling drug is based.

Artificial intelligence also made the list.

In addition to the above ten people, ChatGPT also has a place in this year's Top 10 People of Nature.

ChatGPT has dominated various news headlines this year, and the impact has been felt by the scientific community and society as a whole. "While this tool doesn't count as a person and doesn't fully qualify for Nature's Top 10 Personalities, we made an exception to include it in the list in recognition of the dramatic changes generative AI has made to scientific development and progress." ”

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