Mysteriously male crocodiles, the future of negotiating AIs, and atomic bonding between the United States and China

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week we hear stories on involving more AIs in negotiations, tiny algae that might be responsible for killing some (not all) dinosaurs, and a chemical intended to make farm fish grow faster that may be also be causing one area’s crocodile population to skew male—with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Rich Stone about being on the scene for a joint U.S.-China mission to remove bomb-grade fuel from a nuclear reactor in Ghana. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image:Chad Sparkes; 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,
0:04.0	the academic arm of the Mount Sinai health system in New York City,
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0:10.7	What are scientists and clinicians working on to improve medical care and health for women?
0:15.5	Find out in a special supplement to Science magazine prepared by the Icon School of Medicine
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0:21.6	with science. Visit our website at www.science.org and search for Frontiers of Medical
0:27.5	Research-Wedmen's Health. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.
0:45.4	Welcome to the Science Podcast for September 1st, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,
0:51.2	Rich Stone talks about nuclear cooperation between the U.S. and China. Will recent coordinated efforts on a reactor in Ghana lead to more?
0:55.5	And David Grimm gives us this week's hits from our online news site.
1:01.5	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our online daily news site.
1:04.9	He's here to talk about some recent stories.
1:07.1	Welcome, Dave.
1:08.0	Thanks, Sarah.
1:08.9	First up, we have a story on negotiating with an artificial intelligence.
1:13.4	Why?
1:13.9	Why?
1:15.9	This is something you've actually probably done unknowingly, for example, on eBay when you enter a bid and other people have also entered bids that are supposed to.
1:26.4	Those are computers, right? Yeah. This is a very
1:28.6	simple form of negotiation. This is not the kind of thing we're really talking about here. This is
1:34.0	negotiating very complicated deals, maybe real estate deals, maybe swapping solar credits with
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