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Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show: Meta’s algorithm tackles both language and strategy in a board game, and measuring how much water people use on a daily basis First up this week on the podcast, artificial intelligence (AI) wins at the game Diplomacy. Freelance science journalist Matthew Hutson joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the advances needed for an AI to win a game that requires cooperation and trust between human and AI players. Next, we hear about how much water people need to stay hydrated. It’s not the eight glasses a day recommendation we’ve heard so much about. Herman Pontzer, a professor in Duke University’s Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and the Duke Global Health Institute, talks about a study that involved recording water turnover from 5000 people around the world. It turns out daily water needs vary from person to person and place to place. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: manus1550/iStock; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: photo of a stack of drinking water bottles with podcast overlay symbol] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Matt Hutson Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf8979  About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

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Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

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It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding.

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Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital to

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advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, cardiology, neuroscience, and

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artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way. Morgan State

0:37.3

University, a Baltimore, Maryland,

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Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution, offers more than 100 academic programs and awards

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degrees at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels, is furthering their mission of

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growing the future leading the world. Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

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With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

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and eight new national centers of excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1

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designation in the next five years.

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To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu.

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slash research.

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This is a science podcast for November 25, 2020.

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I'm Sarah Crespi.

1:30.0

Each week, I interviewed journalists and scientists that published in science and the sister journals. First up this week, artificial

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intelligence beats the game diplomacy. Freeland science writer Matt Hudson joins me to talk about

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the advances needed for an AI to cooperate with humans using dialogue

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and to strategize to win a game. Next, we discuss how much water people actually need every day.

1:54.0

Researcher Herman Ponzer talks about recording water turnover from about 5,000 people around the world, and how the data show water needs vary, person to person, and place to place.

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