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An AI LLM tested as a Finance Offer for a company cheated and lied when it couldn't meet its goals honestly.
US expanding social media surveillance of foreigners may impact citizens
Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions
First-in-human clinical trial testing CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing in 12 highly metastatic, end-stage GI cancer patients saw several of their cancer growth halt & not return over 2 year period.
Family uses AI to create video for deadly Chandler road rage victim's own impact statement.
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College: ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
In a win for combatting microplastic pollution. new robots in Seattle can sort waste into recycling categories with 90% accuracy.
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse: A new wave of “reasoning” systems is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
What if future robots are mostly cheap, open-source, and owned by everybody? Researchers in California have developed a humanoid robot that is 3D printed and costs just $5,000.
Is Open-Source vs. Proprietary AI the real AI race, not US vs. Chinese AI, and is Open-Source winning?
A new crowd-trained way to develop LLMs over the internet could shake up the AI industry with a giant 100 billion-parameter model later this year.
The AI jobs crisis is here, now: It's not coming, it has already arrived.
Unless they are trained otherwise, AI will pick up all the biases in its training data. So far, as that's the content of the entire internet, I'm not surprised at this outcome. I'd guess AI training is the next battleground for the woke/anti-DEI crowd, so they can preserve these prejudices.
It often tends to be forgotten, but solar energy has a twin - renewable lunar energy - harnessing the power of the tides. Not everywhere in the world is suited to it. However, this company says there's enough of it to meet 10% of global electricity demand. Some places are especially well suited,, and they point out Alaska could get 100% of its electricity from tidal power.
A Swedish company deploying underwater tidal kites in the Faroe Islands, says 500 of them would supply 100% of Alaska's electricity needs.
For sure, I find it very useful for those purposes. But I think it says something significant so many people are using it for companionship.
This is a tentative result, it's only one patient, and large scale trials would be needed to confirm it. Still, if it is confirmed it's a significant breakthrough. HuidaGene is also working on treatments for Huntington's Disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD among other diseases. It's also working on various Ophthalmology related conditions.
HuidaGene Therapeutics used CRISPR gene-editing (Cas13) to modify genes in the brain for the first time, successfully treating a 9-year-old with MECP2 duplication syndrome.
New research shows the top reason people are using generative AI is for therapy and companionship.
New York wants to use AI and cameras to detect subway crime before it happens.
I pretty sure that is the tariffs, this doesn't look like its replacing 20,000 just yet.
Used EV batteries could power vehicles, houses or even towns if their manufacturers share vital data.
The big caveat here is that 'cured in lab tests' and a viable human treatment are two different things, and sadly the former doesn't always lead to the latter. Still, this points to what may work in the future. Just how much of our tissue could be replaced by brand new 3-d printed tissue?
Carnegie Mellon researchers have used FRESH 3D bioprinting to 3D-print living tissue that has cured Type 1 diabetes in lab tests.
We tend to focus on the many bad effects of AI, but its doing, and will do, plenty of good too.
That's odd. I see it all. Here's an archive.ph version.
There's a few different efforts like this. DeepMind have another one. I follow these types of developments as much as possible, because I think robotics is soon going to take off thanks to recent advances in AI.
Yeah they mention it can reduce stress on joints, for people with arthritis and other conditions this could be a lot more than a hiking toy.
I've no relationship with the company! In fairness, it does seem to work. I posted it as it seemed quite cool.
I disagree. There are definitely people who sincerely believe in AI 'consciousness'. Ironically, they are usually the first to throw about terms like 'woo woo' in any discussions about human consciousness.
When it gets to the point AI is self-recursively improving itself, is this a version of 'life' as we know it? Perhaps with humans as the ultimate parent? In a sense those AIs would be our descendents.
My problem with Big Tech leading these efforts, is that they are so often anti-human welfare, why would we trust them with the issue of anyone else's? Big Tech's desire to have zero regulation is an expression of how little concern they have for other humans. The ease with which all the Big Tech firms help the military slaughter tens of thousands of civilians is another. I can't help thinking they'll use any effort to elevate AI 'welfare', to harm the interests of inconvenient humans, which means most of us to them.
Corresponding author of the paper Dr Ana Angelova Volponi, King’s College London, said: “As the field progresses, the integration of such innovative techniques holds the potential to revolutionise dental care, offering sustainable and effective solutions for tooth repair and regeneration.
Growing a tooth is one thing, I wonder how hard integrating it into a mouth will be. These teeth need to integrate with nerves and blood vessels.
They mention people will own them outright after 6 years. So it's free electricity from that point onwards.
This is an innovative model. They are working with people on low incomes, renters and apartment dwellers. All people cut out of traditional rooftop solar. People will be paying $35 a month for two free-standing 7 by 4 feet panels. There doesn't seem to be any upfront cost, though a qualified electrician needs to install them.
If those two panels generate more than $35 worth of electricity a month, then this seems like a no brainer.
Yes.
There are probably quite a few inflection points coming, and that is one of them.
I think another is when they are capable of most unskilled work (supermarket shelf stacking, cleaning, etc), but cost less to employ than humans paid Western-country minimum wages.
Humanoid robots, like all technologies, will be adopted on an s-curve. First, there will be just a few of them, and then rapidly they will be everywhere, as their adoption heads for market saturation.
Are humanoid robots ready for their s-curve take off phase? Seeing Xpeng's IRON humanoid in action might make you think they are. Xpeng say they expect to start mass-producing these next year, and say they are investing $13.8 billion to scale production.
IRON's specs look impressive. Xpeng says it operates at 3,000 TOPS of processing power with their Turing AI chip. For reference, Microsoft's baseline for an AI PC is 40 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second).