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Covid app findings, AI writing, and brainy birds
Manage episode 428778230 series 1301404
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week we discover what the Covid app has told us about how diseases spread across the UK We look at what the appointment of Sir Patrick Vallance as Minister for Science means for the scientific community. And whilst generative AI can boost productivity for writers, it can also produce very similar stories. So are we willing to trade boring for productive?
Plus in our Titans of Science series we continue with Cambridge University psychologist and bird fanatic Nicky Clayton, as we discuss the cognitive behaviour of birds.
1095 episodes
Manage episode 428778230 series 1301404
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.
This week we discover what the Covid app has told us about how diseases spread across the UK We look at what the appointment of Sir Patrick Vallance as Minister for Science means for the scientific community. And whilst generative AI can boost productivity for writers, it can also produce very similar stories. So are we willing to trade boring for productive?
Plus in our Titans of Science series we continue with Cambridge University psychologist and bird fanatic Nicky Clayton, as we discuss the cognitive behaviour of birds.
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