Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag

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🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Up until this year, most U.S. graduate programs in the sciences required the General Record Examination from applicants. But concerns about what the test scores actually say about potential students and the worry that the cost is a barrier to many have led to a rapid and dramatic reduction in the number of programs requiring the test. Science Staff Writer Katie Langin joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this trend and how it differs across disciplines. Also this week, Sarah talks with DeepMind’s Max Jaderberg in London about training artificial agents to play a video game version of capture the flag. The agents played approximately 4 years’ worth of Quake III Arena and came out better than even expert human players at both cooperating and collaborating, even when their computer-quick reflexes were hampered. And in this month’s book segment, new host Kiki Sanford interviews Marcus Du Satoy about his book The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads this week: KiwiCo.com Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science podcast. [Image: DeepMind; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
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0:43.1	Welcome to the science Podcast for May 31st, 2019.
0:44.6	I'm Sarah Cresby.
0:48.4	In this week's show, we start with staff writer Katie Lanken.
0:55.1	She wrote a piece about how science graduate programs are dropping the GRE requirement like a hot potato.
1:02.2	And I also talk with Max Yardberg of Deep Mind about training in AI to compete and collaborate using a multiplayer video game from 1999.
1:06.6	We also have a book segment this week on artificial intelligence, and more importantly, we have a new book reviewer, Kiki Sanford.
1:15.3	You may know her from the This Week in Science podcast
1:17.9	or many, many other science communication efforts.
1:20.6	For this month's book segment, she interviews Marcus Duceyoy about his book,
1:25.9	The Creativity Code, Art and Innovation in the Age of AI.
1:31.6	Now we have Katie Langen, a staff writer at Science. She's been trying to quantify the perception
1:37.3	that graduate programs have begun the great Grexit or the GRE Exodus. Hi, Katie. Hi. hi okay just a background question here did you take the gree
1:48.6	i did take the gree way back in 2005 i took the gree and went through the process of studying for
1:57.9	this standardized test to get into grad school.
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