Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the practice of medicine through the design and deployment of AI models that can detect, diagnose, and render prognosis for a disease more rapidly than most human physicians can, and with similar or superior accuracy.
So-called foundation models â trained on vast amounts of unlabeled data and usable in multiple clinical contexts for different purposes with minimal tweaking â offer a particularly tantalizing promise to reshape diagnosis and treatment.
Donât want Googleâs experimental AI search feature embedded into your search pages? Too bad.
According toSearch Engine Land, Google has started unleashing its AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) product, which was previously available for users only on an opt-in basis, into the browsers of users who didnât choose to partake in Googleâs AI search experiment.
Google has defended the unsolicited SGE-ification of its platform, telling Search Engine Land that itâs thus far only incorporated SGE automatically into a âsubset of queriesâ that take up a âsmall percentage of search traffic in the USâ and arguing further that the rollout will allow them to glean feedback from the users who, again, didnât elect to opt into the generative AI search service.
A movie released to critical acclaim has now been met with intense backlash after fans discovered it included AI-generated images.
Written and directed by siblings Cameron and Colin Cairnes, âLate Night With the Devil,â is a horror movie starring David Dastmalchian as a 70s talk show host. Through found footage, it shows a once âlostâ live TV broadcast on Halloween, in which the eveningâs guest, a young girl, claims to be demonically possessed.
Critics and audiences alike have raved about the movie since it premiered at the SXSW film festival â but that goodwill proved to be short-lived. In a scathing and now viral review shared on Letterboxd, a user called out the movie for having AI âall overâ certain sequences, garnering thousands of likes and inciting tons of fiery discourse on other social media platforms.
A hot potato: A lot of companies try to assuage fears that employees will lose their jobs to AI by assuring them theyâll be working alongside the tech, thereby improving efficiency and making their duties less tedious. That claim feels less convincing in light of a new survey that found 41% of managers said they are hoping to replace workers with cheaper AI tools in 2024.
A report by Beautiful.ai, which makes AI-powered presentation software, surveyed over 3,000 managers about AI tools in the workplace, how theyâre being implemented, and what impact they believe these technologies will have.
The headline takeaway is that 41% of managers said they are hoping that they can replace employees with cheaper AI tools in 2024. This backs up previous reports that looked at potential jobs losses caused by generative AI, including one from September that predicted the technology would replace over 2 million US jobs by 2030. An earlier study claimed that generative AI could affect 300 million jobs globally.
Toronto-based multimedia production company Shy Kids used the next-generation generative AI tool to come up with a whimsical short film about âAir Head,â a man who has a balloon instead of a head.
The short film is an impressive example of the techâs capabilities, showing off Soraâs striking ability to generate relatively believable and photorealistic video footage in response to a text prompt.
If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle⊠it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton is a special type of wave or dislocation that behaves like a particle: it can move around but cannot spread out and disappear like you would expect from, say, a ripple on the surface of a pond. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the University of Amsterdam demonstrate the atypical behavior of topological solitons in a robotic metamaterial, something which in the future may be used to control how robots move, sense their surroundings, and communicate.
Topological solitons can be found in many places and at many different length scales. For example, they take the form of kinks in coiled telephone cords and large molecules such as proteins. At a very different scale, a black hole can be understood as a topological soliton in the fabric of spacetime. Solitons play an important role in biological systems, being relevant for protein folding and morphogenesis â the development of cells or organs.