AI Could Help Save Us from Conspiracy Theories, and Massachusetts Could Help Save Us from Our Trash

This week's news roundup: The European Space Agency’s Juice mission
tested its instruments with a flyby of Earth in preparation for
studying habitability on moons of Jupiter’. Also, a study found
that Massachusetts has reduced food waste through composting and
enforcement while four other states have not successfully done so
despite also having bans on disposing of such waste in landfills.
And researchers tested the generative artificial intelligence
platform GPT-4 Turbo’s ability to counter conspiracy theories
through personalized, fact-based conversations, yielding promising
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