Tag: sometimes
Subliminal Learning Lets Student AI Models Learn Unexpected (and Sometimes Misaligned) Traits from Their Teachers
Student AIs Pick Up Unexpected Traits from Teachers through Subliminal Learning AI can transfer strange qualities through seemingly unrelated training—from a love of owls to something more dangerous By Emma R. Hasson edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Join Our Community of Science Lovers! From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often…
Weird weather isn’t always because of climate change — but sometimes it is
By Alejandra Borunda 2025 started off with a flurry of intense weather. Southern California experienced bursts of 100-mph winds that spread record-breaking destructive wildfires. Major winter storms have dumped snow and cold weather on the Mid-Atlantic and the South. And in the midst of the weather news, scientists from major meteorological associations around the world…
In a Political Year, Some Deaths Spoke to the Struggles for Democracy
Among the notable figures who died in a sometimes polarizing 2024, many championed justice, equal rights and political freedom. By William McDonald William McDonald is the obituaries editor of The Times. In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarized world, where the obituary many feared they’d be reading would be that of…