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Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders ...

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Allowing AI to talk to itself helps it learn faster and adapt more easily. This inner speech, combined with working memory, lets AI generalize skills using far less data.