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AI Word Choice | When Dwarf Lemurs Hibernate, Their Chromosomes Do Something Odd
Mar 27, 2025
24:27
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About this episode
Certain words are overrepresented in text written by AI language models. A study investigates why such patterns develop. Also, the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs hibernate, they lengthen.
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Episode Details
- Author
- Charles Bergquist, Shoshannah Buxbaum, Flora Lichtman
- Show Type
- full
- Audio Format
- audio/mpeg