Stuart Smyth

StuartSmyth

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and holds the Industry Funded Agri-Food Innovation's Chair. My research focuses on innovation and agriculture and the resulting impacts. In also puts out a weekly bl…

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Does Chat GPT Think, Is AI Research Physics, And Are We In A Universe Based On Voxels?

The answers to the title questions are, No, Yes, and why not. What I have been doing instead of blogging lately has mostly been AI training as a freelancer for a company called Outlier.AI.…

Cows Are Not Killing The Climate

As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment.

Existence Of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes Confirmed?

At a distance of a mind-blowing 750 million light years from Earth, astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a system made up of 10 radio telescopes across the U.S., say they've been…

Some Highlights From ICHEP

The ICHEP conference in Chicago is drawing to a close, and although I did not have the pleasure to attend it (I was busy with real work, you know ;-) I think I can post here some commentary of a few…