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AutHer Awards 2023 winners announced at a gala event in New Delhi

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  It was an exciting evening at Taj Palace, New Delhi this Sunday as the audience witnessed a heart-warming celebration of Indian women writers on the occasion of AutHer Awards 2023 winner announcements. The AutHer Awards, a joint venture between The Times of India and JK Paper, celebrates women authors who have added value and creativity to the literary space. From authors, publishers, academicians, and book lovers to bureaucrats, politicians, and artistes-- the fourth edition of AutHer Awards was attended by some of the biggest names in the literary space. Veteran actress Shabana Azmi was the Chief Guest for AutHer Awards 2023. The winners are... The AutHer Awards 2023 winners were announced for four major categories – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s Literature, and Debut. A Lifetime Achievement award and a Prize in the Popular Choice category were also given. A new award category was also introduced this year for Best Manuscript. The AutHer Awards 2023- Best Author Fiction was give

From Cats to Chatbots: How Non-Humans Are Authoring Scientific Papers

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  Though proving to be a daydream tool for many industries,  ChatGPT  is quickly becoming a nightmare for academia. As of January 2023,  four  separate research papers have cited the AI chatbot as a co-author in a research project — forcing scientific journals to scramble to update their  policies  and regulations addressing possible ethical problems. Ethical Issues The process of adding an author who made little to no contribution to a scientific paper is called  honorary authorship , and it’s caused some serious  ethical issues  in the past. One of the earliest of these issues occurred in the mid-1970s and involved, surprisingly, a cat. In 1975, a University of Michigan physics professor by the name of Jack Hetherington had just finished writing a rather  influential paper  on changing particle behaviors at different temperatures. The paper was due to be published in  Physics Review Letters , and the deadline was looming. Unfortunately, a colleague pointed out a problem: Hetherington