Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech
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Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech

2026-06-26
Nature staff discuss how apes share a rhythm of laughter, and how AI use may degrade skills in medicine and computer science.00:32 Early evidence suggests that AI use causes skills to atrophyNature: Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good06:42 Humans and chimps share a laughNature: Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickledSubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every wee...
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