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Nov 27, 2023

Study warns that workaholism ruins mood and may even result in death

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The negative mood observed in workaholics may indicate elevated daily stress levels and that could be the cause of the higher risk for these individuals to develop burnout and cardiovascular problems.


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Death is a possibility.

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Nov 27, 2023

Scientists discover that your ears speak to your eyes and vice versa

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“You can actually estimate the movement of the eyes and the position of the target that the eyes are going to look at just from recordings made with a microphone in the ear canal.”


Duke University researchers have discovered that when the eyes move, the ears generate a tiny almost imperceptible murmur and the other way around. Now, they are close to uncovering what they say.

Nov 27, 2023

AI godfathers clash on whether LLMs can understand what they say

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun argue on X.

For every AI doomer, there’s an AI idealist to counteract their view.


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Nov 27, 2023

AI And Generation Z: Pioneering A New Era Of Philanthropy

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

In an era marked by economic challenges, the resilience of human generosity is more evident than ever.


Article discusses the growing influence of artificial intelligence and Generation Z in transforming philanthropic strategies and donor engagement reshaping charity.

Nov 27, 2023

Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model

Posted by in categories: education, mathematics, robotics/AI

If OpenAI’s new model can solve grade-school math, it could pave the way for more powerful systems.

Ever since last week’s dramatic events at OpenAI, the rumor mill has been in overdrive about why the company’s chief scientific officer, Ilya Sutskever, and its board decided to oust CEO Sam Altman.

Nov 27, 2023

Tesla Cybertruck’s cool “wake-up sequence“ observed in the wild

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A recent Tesla Cybertruck sighting has teased a couple of cool features that have remained generally hidden until recently.

Nov 27, 2023

AWS, Hoppr Launch Model to Accelerate Generative AI Tools in Medical Imaging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

AI startup Hoppr teamed up with AWS to launch a new foundation model to help bring more generative AI solutions into medical imaging, the companies announced on Sunday at RSNA 2023, the annual radiology and medical imaging conference in Chicago.

The new product, named Grace, is a B2B model designed to help application developers build better AI solutions for medical images — and to build them more quickly. Along with the launch of Grace, Hoppr also announced that it received “a multi-million dollar investment” from Health2047, the American Medical Association’s venture studio.

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Nov 27, 2023

Survey Finds Half of Tech Workers Think AI Is a Bunch of Hype

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, military, robotics/AI

As boosters say AI is primed to conquer entire sectors, from military to medicine, a significant portion of the tech world is surprisingly unconvinced by its utility, according to a new survey from software development business Retool.

In the survey of 1,500 people working in tech, Retool found that a startling 51.6 percent of people think AI is overrated, while 25.1 percent think it’s underrated, and another 23.4 percent think it’s fairly rated. The people surveyed include executives, software engineers, designers, and other positions in different industries.

Particularly striking was that workers in executive roles had a more favorable view of AI while people in the technical side “skewed a little more toward overrated” — perhaps not a surprise, since many business leaders have been crowing about the potential cost savings of AI and how it could generate more revenue.

Nov 27, 2023

Paradox of ultramassive black hole formation solved by supercomputer

Posted by in categories: cosmology, evolution, supercomputing

With a gravitational field so strong that not even light can escape its grip, black holes are probably the most interesting and bizarre objects in the universe.

Due to their extreme properties, a theoretical description of these celestial bodies is impossible within the framework of Newton’s classical theory of gravity. It requires the use of general relativity, the theory proposed by Einstein in 1915, which treats gravitational fields as deformations in the fabric of space-time.

Black holes are usually formed from the collapse of massive stars during their final stage of evolution. Therefore, when a black hole is born, its mass does not exceed a few dozen solar masses.

Nov 27, 2023

Pet geneticists use AI to visualize how dogs will look in 10,000 years

Posted by in categories: genetics, robotics/AI

Veterinarian experts at Basepaws, a genetics testing company for pets in California, looked into the possibilities of how dog breeds of today will evolve 10,000 years down the line. The experts give their inputs to neural networks to generate some interesting visualizations.

Take a moment to see if you can recognize the breeds in the images below.

It is well known that modern-day dogs evolved from wolves that got friendly with humans. The exact timeline of when this friendship began is up for debate in the scientific community. But now that it has been established, it is unlikely that the bond will be shaken by anything in the future.