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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 that AI plays in scientific progress.
Along with ChatGPT, its inventor and a key figure in OpenAI's palace fighting 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 together with ChatGPT?
ChatGPT was selected along with Ilya.
ChatGPT is independent of 10 human scientists, and it is also the first non-human entity to be included on Nature's annual list.
Nature explains that the addition of non-human entities as a complement is an acknowledgment of the role that AI can play in the development and advancement of science
ChatGPT has had a profound and wide-ranging impact on science in many ways, with Nature describing it as a "shocking human imitator".
ChatGPT works with humans to write science**, draft presentations and course outlines, write computers**...For some researchers, ChatGPT has become an "invaluable lab assistant."
Although some scientists have long been aware of 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 time to the ChatGPT controversy, discussing issues such as copyright, hallucinations and bias, and opacity.
But it is undeniable that for better or worse, the 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 calls him a visionary AI scholar
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 security.
In July this year, he shifted the focus of OpenAI's R&D work to a four-year "super alignment" project, using 20% of the computing power to guide and control ChatGPT.
But the contradiction between security and rapid development has triggered the palace fight storm of OpenAI, 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, the latter has a strong "moral compass" and is very concerned about the safety of AINg also said that Ilya has admirable traits for being able to choose a direction and pursue it relentlessly.
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: Redefining reproduction.
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 thought was nearly impossible.
Previously, Hayashi and his team had devised methods to induce mouse stem cells to turn into immature eggs or oocytes, which then matured, fertilized and gave birth to living pups.
Nature's editorial staff said the feat could help save an endangered species.
* Address: Svetlana Mojsov: "buried" drug developer.
A new class of appetite suppressants called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) has 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 the press and was not awarded to Mojsov for numerous awards.
Thanks to Mojsov's tireless efforts, her work was finally recognized, but she considered these to be secondary and her main task was to continue her research on GLP-1 and related proteins.
Halidou Tinto: Malaria fighter.
Tinto hosts an 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: Cancer Explorer.
Powles is a cancer researcher at a hospital in London.
His breakthrough in fatal bladder cancer could herald the next wave of powerful immunologic drugs.
He developed a cancer** approach called antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) that uses a combination of two drugs for 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 a physicist at the University of Florida in the United States, James Hamlin, known as the "superconducting detective" by Nature.
In March this year, Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, published in Nature that she had discovered a new room-temperature superconducting material.
Hamlin helped discover the flaw in this article, 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 Kritzcher.
Oncologist Monica MBertagnolli, molecular biologist Muhammad Masroor Alam, geologist Colin Waters, and materials scientist Ilan Gur have been named scholars to watch in 2024.
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