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Hey Shortwavers Regina Barbara here and this time I've brought Jeff Brumfield,

senior editor and science desk correspondent to the show.

Hey Jeff! Hi there. And all things

things considered host Ari Shapiro. The Interloper returns. Okay so normally we talk

through three things that are happening in the science world

fresh off the journals and social media that's happening this week but this time we're

giving you three big things in science from this year. We'll take through

kind of the top three science threads we saw in spooling.

We have the science discoveries happening from the James Webb Space Telescope.

And fresh off the COP28 conference, we'll talk Climate.

But we'll start with another really big theme, artificial intelligence.

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Okay, Aria, should we start with the big one? AI?

Yes, it was everywhere this year and it seems like everybody was afraid that

chat gPT was going to put them out of a job, no matter what kind of job they had.

So eager to hear what you've got.

Yeah, so let's talk about medicine for a minute. You know the AI

revolution was already well underway in medicine before chat GPT showed up. People have been

developing algorithms to do things like diagnosed diseases and

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