Robotics/AI – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Feb 4
2023

The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking

The human brain could explain why AI programs are so good at writing grammatically superb nonsense.

Feb 3
2023

After Cousin’s Diagnosis, Researcher Builds Non-Invasive Device To Detect Breast Cancer

Researcher Geetha Manjunath quit her job to launch Thermalytix, an AI solution that offers a radiation free and non invasive way to detect breast cancer in women.

Feb 3
2023

AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images

The finding could strengthen artists’ claims that AI companies are infringing their rights.

Feb 3
2023

What kind of intelligence is artificial intelligence?

The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.

Feb 3
2023

8 possible alien ‘technosignatures’ detected around distant stars in new AI study

Eight signals from far-off stars probably aren’t aliens, but the machine learning method that found them holds promise in the search for real extraterrestrials.

Feb 3
2023

Deep fake AI will let Tom Hanks play his younger self

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Metaphysic’s new Live tool creates high-resolution photorealistic faceswaps and de-aging effects on top of actors’ performances live and in real-time without the need for further compositing or VFX work.

Feb 3
2023

ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace

Media jobs across the board — including those in advertising, technical writing, journalism, and any role that involves content creation — may be affected by ChatGPT and similar forms of AI, Madgavkar said. That’s because AI is able to read, write, and understand text-based data well, she added.

“Analyzing and interpreting vast amounts of language based data and information is a skill that you’d expect generative AI technologies to ramp up on,” Madgavkar said.

Economist Paul Krugman said in a New York Times op-ed that ChatGPT may be able to do tasks like reporting and writing “more efficiently than humans.”

Feb 3
2023

Will an AI Be the First to Discover Alien Life?

SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is deploying machine-learning algorithms that filter out Earthly interference and spot signals humans might miss.

Feb 3
2023

Our future could be full of undying, self-repairing robots. Here’s how

If we’re going to put an AI brain somewhere, it’s likely going to be a robot. The next step – making that robot immortal.

Feb 3
2023

Google invests $300 million in Anthropic as race to compete with ChatGPT heats up

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According to new reporting from the Financial Times, Google has invested $300 million in one of the most buzzy OpenAI rivals, Anthropic, whose recently-debuted generative AI model Claude is considered competitive with ChatGPT.

According to the reporting, Google will take a stake of around 10% and Anthropic will be required to use the money to buy computing resources from Google Cloud. The new funding will value the San Francisco-based company at around $5 billion.