Elizabeth Gibney

Physics & AI reporter @Nature, opinions my own. This account is now largely dormant but find me posting here:

[Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich]

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

@eatleancheese How do you recycle the packets please? It’s not on the packet and can’t find the info anywhere. Thanks!

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

@LulaOficial Parabéns Luciano Moreira! Leia o artigo sobre ele na Nature, aqui (da minha brilhante colega Mariana Lenharo) https://t.co/0wMXElssN5

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

Here's a slightly different #quantum survey to my mind-boggling one on interpretations & very important! This group hope to run the largest ever survey of quantum scientists to understand how to help people stay in the field & thrive. If you have time, please fill it out here👇

[Tzula Propp (they/them) @tzpropp]

This survey is the culmination of a lot of people’s work, and has the potential to help quantum scientists around the globe! Please help us get the word out :-)

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

@Yulun_Du Hi Yulun, I'm a journalist at Nature writing a quick story about Kimi K2. Can you get in touch via DMs so we can chat? Thanks!

[nature @Nature]

Probing photons inside a barrier also challenges a long-standing interpretation of quantum physics

https://t.co/yCe67WOFVe

[Sandra Wachter [email protected] @SandraWachter5]

Congrats @Abebab & team for publishing this new piece @LizzieGibney @Nature on how computer-vision research powers surveillance technology. https://t.co/K3SW3aKLiV @oiioxford

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

@PeterMorganQF Hi Peter, it was a few thousand! We tried to target researchers who have published in a related topic, who have cited key papers & who have published in certain journals. We've had some great results so far & will be looking at how to make the anonymised data available for all

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

Read more here about the importance of reinforcement learning, how reasoning models could change research and his view that the ability to make scientific breakthroughs is a gauge of AGI https://t.co/yAeI0UhucV

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

@OpenAI's upcoming open-weight models are going to be worth the wait, the firm's chief scientist @merettm Jakub Pachocki suggested to me in our recent Q&A

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

.@Nature's measure of top-cited papers of the 21st century is a very AI-heavy list!
@Microsoft's ResNets comes in at number 1, with ImageNet, Random Forests and 'Attention is all you need' also in the top 10. Cancer, mental health & PCR are up there too https://t.co/DWbSwWT5Ja

[SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory @SLAClab]

"All of the excitement is based in real, measurable progress.” 👏

SLAC particle physicist Spencer Gessner spoke with Nature's @LizzieGibney about a proposed accelerator boosting the energy of powerful future colliders.

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

A team led by China's Jian-Wei Pan has created a fridge-sized, 23kg satellite that can perform quantum key distribution in space & used it to transmit a secure image 13,000km. A quantum secure network that spans the globe is not far away. My @Nature story: https://t.co/YED2nvylo3

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

Here's a fascinating claim to have made electricity using a static ceramic tube. Not a perpetual motion machine, it takes energy from Earth's rotation, say researchers, creating a current as the tube moves through Earth's magnetic field. Many are sceptical https://t.co/7tIjdXjkYH

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

I think this has a legitimate case to be the most startling identity in mathematics. It’s a simple, natural sum involving odd numbers. What the hell is a pi doing there?!?

Happy #piday, everyone!

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

And for more info on big issues like safety and how physically building general-purpose robots (not just their brains) is still really hard, see here from last year: https://t.co/8x00SJPqJi

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

.@GoogleDeepMind has improved how well Gemini understands things in 3D space, and put it in robots 🤖 It's a small but significant advance in robotic dexterity and their ability to do things they've not been directly trained to do. My @Nature story here: https://t.co/Ejp8iI3OVO

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

@yesnoerror @Nature Thanks for speaking to me! This story was a fascinating one to report (but alas not a cover story, that's a @yesnoerror mock up 😃)

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

Projects like @yesnoerror & @snewmanpv's Black Spatula Project are using LLMs to quickly & cheaply find errors in scientific papers. The impact could be huge. But the methods create false positives & come with risks. My story on the v different approaches: https://t.co/MPimiH6lw3

[Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney]

China is leading the world in research into new kinds of computing chips, data from @csetgeorgetown suggests. If it can be commercialised, China would leapfrog the US, and the US wouldn't be able to hold back Chinese AI with export controls. My story here: https://t.co/fSkh8phJ4i