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Is this Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing?

Posted by Gemechu Taye in futurism, robotics/AI

Feb 4
2023

Bing users said a ‘new Bing’ interface just appeared — and disappeared — this morning. Microsoft is reportedly integrating OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT into its search engine, with plans to announce the update soon.

Microsoft is reported to be capitalizing on the success of ChatGPT by integrating the AI chatbot into its search engine Bing. But what might that look like? We may now have some idea, thanks to Bing users who said a new, AI-assisted version of the search engine mysteriously appeared (and disappeared) earlier today.

Student and designer Owen Yin reported seeing the “new Bing” on Twitter this morning.

An apparition of Bing’s AI-powered future.

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Scientists Find New Method To Make Wood Transparent

Posted by Quinn Sena in energy, futurism

Feb 4
2023

In a bid to make wood stronger and lighter than glass to move towards an energy-efficient future, a team of researchers at the University of Maryland has found a new way to make wood completely transparent which they believe to be better than the previous techniques.

The paper, published in the journal Science Advances, details the making of their transparent wood which was found to be 50 times stronger than the ones made using the conventional way.

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Different Modes of Visual Integration in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Revealed by Single-Cell-Initiated Transsynaptic Tracing

Posted by Dan Breeden in futurism

Feb 4
2023

Rompani et al. employ single-cell-initiated transsynaptic tracing to decipher patterns of input integration in the thalamus. They show that individual cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus integrate retinal inputs in three distinct modes, each exhibiting different degrees of specialization.

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