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AI Word Choice | When Dwarf Lemurs Hibernate, Their Chromosomes Do Something Odd
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Certain words are overrepresented in text written by AI language models. A study investigates why such patterns develop. Also, the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs hibernate, they lengthen.