Nicola Jones

AI chatbots struggle to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Their 'hallucinations' can't be stopped, but these techniques can help. My feature for Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00068-5

OpenAI made headlines last month when its latest experimental chatbot model, o3, achieved a high score on a test that marks progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). OpenAI’s o3 scored 87.5%, trouncing the previous best score for an artificial intelligence (AI) system of 55.5%. So what does this mean? How smart is AI these days, and what are the tests that researchers are developing to measure that? My story for Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00110-6

The ocean is a vast source of potential renewable energy, thanks to ever-moving tides and waves. But harnessing that energy has proven expensive and difficult, with more than a few bankruptcies over the past 20 years of effort. Is that about to change? My story for Yale https://e360.yale.edu/features/wave-tidal-energy