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Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech

June 26 · 11 min · 5.5 MB
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Nature staff discuss how apes share a rhythm of laughter, and how AI use may degrade skills in medicine and computer science.


00:32 Early evidence suggests that AI use causes skills to atrophy

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06:42 Humans and chimps share a laugh

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