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CBS News
11 hours ago
- Automotive
- CBS News
I-80 in Wharton, N.J. set to fully reopen Saturday after one more night of closures
I-80 in Wharton, New Jersey is set to fully reopen Saturday, but it can only happen after one more night of closures. All three eastbound lanes are expected to reopen in Wharton Saturday morning. It's four days ahead of schedule. But in order to restore all the eastbound lanes, there will be a full closure Friday night so the road can be paved, and traffic stripes added. The eastbound lanes will be entirely closed at Exit 34/Wharton/Dover/Sparta from 9 p.m. Friday until 9 a.m. Saturday. The following detour will be in effect. Motorists on I-80 eastbound are being directed to take Exit 34 to Route 15/Wharton/Dover/Sparta At the end of the ramp, stay right following signs for Route 15/Jefferson/Dover/Sparta/Picatinny Arsenal Stay in the right lane on North Main Street following signs for Route 15 North/Jefferson/Sparta Bear right toward Route 15 northbound/Picatinny Arsenal At the traffic signal, merge onto Route 15 northbound Stay left, following signs for Pondview Drive/U and Left Turns Using both lanes, make a U-turn at the Pondview Drive traffic signal and merge onto Route 15 southbound Stay left to take the exit to I-80 eastbound All westbound lanes reopened last week. The major highway has been partially shut down to repair a series of sinkholes that started appearing last December and kept developing. "I am thrilled to see all lanes of I-80 open safely this weekend so we can ensure that New Jerseyans can get to where they need to go efficiently and safely" Gov. Phil Murphy said. "Importantly, I want to thank the thousands of New Jerseyans who have been impacted by these sinkholes for their patience as we worked to secure this roadway. I also want to thank NJDOT Commissioner Fran O'Connor, the NJDOT crews, and the New Jersey State Police who have worked around the clock to open this highway safely." "With the reopening of all lanes on I-80 eastbound this Saturday, full mobility will be restored on I-80 in both directions ahead of schedule," O'Connor said. O'Connor said the repairs "are permanent," and that he believes I-80 is now "stronger and safer than it was before the first sinkhole developed. The engineering and magnitude of work that went into stabilizing and strengthening this road for decades to come is truly remarkable."
Axios
3 days ago
- Science
- Axios
Study: ChatGPT's creativity gap
AI can generate a larger volume of creative ideas than any human, but those ideas are too much alike, according to research newly published in Nature Human Behavior. Why it matters: AI makers say their tools are "great for brainstorming," but experts find that chatbots produce a more limited range of ideas than a group of humans. How it works: Study participants were asked to brainstorm product ideas for a toy involving a brick and a fan, using either ChatGPT, their own ideas, or their ideas combined with web searches. Ninety-four percent of ideas from those who used ChatGPT "shared overlapping concepts." Participants who used their own ideas with the help of web searches produced the most "unique concepts," meaning a group of one or more ideas that did not overlap with any other ideas in the set. Researchers used ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT-4 and reported that while ChatGPT-4 is creating more diverse ideas than 3.5, it still falls short ("by a lot") relative to humans. Case in point: Nine participants using ChatGPT independently named their toy "Build-a-Breeze Castle." The big picture: Wharton professors Gideon Nave and Christian Terwiesch and Wharton researcher Lennart Meincke found that subjects came up with a broader range of creative ideas when they used their own thoughts and web searches, compared to when they used ChatGPT. Groups that used ChatGPT tended to converge on similar concepts, reducing overall idea diversity. "We're not talking about diversity as a DEI type of diversity," Terwiesch told Axios. "We're talking about diversity in terms of the ideas being different from each in biology, we need a diverse ecosystem." Zoom in: A 2024 study found similar results. Participants were asked to write short fiction with and without ChatGPT. Generative AI–enabled stories were found to be more similar to each other than stories by humans. Yes, but: ChatGPT can be used as part of the brainstorming process. Terwiesch says idea variance comes from using ChatGPT to generate ideas, while also coming up with your own ideas and collecting original ideas from others. Terwiesch also recommends "chain of thought prompting," which means asking your chatbot to generate several ideas, but also specifically asking the bot to make those ideas different from each other. "If I just sit back and let ChatGPT do the work, I'm not taking the full advantage of what this tool has to offer. I can do better than that," Terwiesch told Axios. A spokesperson from OpenAI shared best practices for prompting ChatGPT, advice from writers on how to use the tool and a student's guide to writing with ChatGPT.
Harvard Business Review
4 days ago
- Business
- Harvard Business Review
How to Get Out of the Hybrid Work Rut
With some high-profile CEOs demanding workers return to the office five days a week, and others touting the benefits of fully remote work, many companies compromised and ended up somewhere in the middle. But that hybrid compromise can often bring the worst of both worlds. Wharton professor Peter Cappelli and senior HR strategist Ranya Nehmeh have looked deeply at what is going wrong with hybrid – and how leaders can make it right. They explain practical ways to improve meetings, build culture, and inspire commitment from employees in a hybrid model, which is most likely here to stay. Cappelli and Nehmeh are the authors of the forthcoming book In Praise of the Office: The Limits to Hybrid and Remote Work and the HBR article ' Hybrid Still Isn't Working '. For further listening
BBC News
4 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Sell Onana, buy Gyokeres
As the transfer window is now open again until 1 September, we asked for you to tell us one player you want to bring to Manchester United and one player you want the club to are some of your comments:Carl: Semenyo in and Sancho out, one brings balance and the other endless Sell Garnacho and buy Gyokeres. He is a proven Onana out, he's just not consistent. Toney in. We need a proven Premier League standard striker. We can't afford another 'let's hope he's good enough' type from a lower standard Sell Luke Shaw and buy Marc Gyokores in and Hojlund out. We need to score more goals and this could be the season defining Sell Onana and replace him with Porto keeper Diogo I would sell Garnacho and buy Wharton. Garnacho should fetch a decent fee and will do wonders from a PSR perspective. He is also a winger which doesn't truly fit Amorim's system. Wharton will bring a genuine, disciplined and athletic deep lying midfield playmaker which will allow Bruno to push up to more attacking areas where he is at his best. It will take a huge fee and wages to convince Palace to sell up and Wharton to go to a club with no European football.
Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Health
- Boston Globe
Dismissed members of CDC vaccine committee call RFK Jr.'s actions ‘destabilizing'
'We are deeply concerned that these destabilizing decisions, made without clear rationale, may roll back the achievements of U.S. immunization policy, impact people's access to lifesaving vaccines, and ultimately put U.S. families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses,' the 17 panelists wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The new committee is scheduled to meet next week. The agenda for that meeting has not yet been posted, but a recent federal notice said votes are expected on vaccinations against flu, COVID-19, HPV, RSV and meningococcal bacteria. Advertisement In addition to Wharton's removal, CDC immunization staff have been cut and agency experts who gather or present data to committee members have resigned. One, Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, resigned after 12 years at CDC, disclosing her decision early this month in a note to members of a COVID-19 vaccines workgroup. Her decision came after Kennedy decided — without consulting the vaccine advisers — to pull back COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women. Advertisement 'My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role,' she wrote in a message viewed by the AP. Those CDC personnel losses will make it hard for a group of new outside advisers to quickly come up to speed and make fact-based decisions about which vaccines to recommend to the public, the former committee members said. 'The termination of all members and its leadership in a single action undermines the committee's capacity to operate effectively and efficiently, aside from raising questions about competence,' they wrote. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to the JAMA commentary, but instead pointed to Kennedy's previous comments on the committee. Kennedy, a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before becoming the U.S. government's top health official, has accused the committee of being too closely aligned with vaccine manufacturers and of rubber-stamping vaccines. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, created in 1964, makes recommendations to the CDC director on how vaccines that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration should be used. CDC directors almost always approve those recommendations, which are widely heeded by doctors and guide vaccination programs. ACIP policies require members to state past collaborations with vaccine companies and to recuse themselves from votes in which they had a conflict of interest, but Kennedy has dismissed those safeguards as weak.
