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Mar 20, 2024

Stability AI Is Falling Apart

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AI image generation company Stability AI is in big trouble.

Several key AI developers who worked on Stable Diffusion, the company’s popular text-to-image generator, have resigned, Forbes reports.

Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque announced the news during an all-hands meeting last week, per Forbes, revealing that three of the five researchers who originally created the foundational tech that powers Stable Diffusion at two German universities, had left.

Mar 20, 2024

Research team establishes synthetic dimension dynamics to manipulate light

Posted by in categories: physics, space

In the realm of physics, synthetic dimensions (SDs) have emerged as one of the frontiers of active research, offering a pathway to explore phenomena in higher-dimensional spaces, beyond our conventional 3D geometrical space. The concept has garnered significant attention, especially in topological photonics, due to its potential to unlock rich physics inaccessible in traditional dimensions.

Mar 20, 2024

What is a white hole? — with Carlo Rovelli

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Journey into the enigmatic depths of a black hole, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli. Buy Carlo’s book here: https://geni.us/nNB6xAsBecome one of our YouTu…

Mar 20, 2024

Using Computers Strongly Linked to Erectile Dysfunction

Posted by in category: computing

Scientists have uncovered results that suggest a strong association between the risk of developing erectile dysfunction and computer usage.

Mar 20, 2024

How Nvidia’s billionaire CEO went from Denny’s dishwasher to leading a company with a $2 trillion market cap

Posted by in category: futurism

“I’m still working on being a good CEO,” Jensen Huang said in an interview at his alma mater, Stanford University.

Mar 20, 2024

Behavioral and neural correlates to multisensory detection of sick humans

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

Importantly, the superior temporal sulcus (STS), and superior temporal gyrus (STG) are considered core areas for multisensory integration (, ), including for olfactory–visual integration (). The STS was significantly connected to the IPS during multisensory integration, as indicated by the PPI analysis ( Fig. 3 ) focusing on functional connectivity of IPS and whole-brain activation. Likewise, the anterior and middle cingulate cortex, precuneus, and hippocampus/amygdala were activated when testing sickness-cue integration-related whole-brain functional connectivity with the IPS but were not activated when previously testing for unisensory odor or face sickness perception. In this context, hippocampus/amygdala activation may represent the involvement of an associative neural network responding to threat () represented by a multisensory sickness signal. This notion supports the earlier assumption of olfactory-sickness–driven OFC and MDT activation, suggested to be part of a neural circuitry serving disease avoidance. Last, the middle cingulate cortex has recently been found to exhibit enhanced connectivity with the anterior insula during a first-hand experience of LPS-induced inflammation (), and this enhancement has been interpreted as a potential neurophysiological mechanism involved in the brain’s sickness response. Applied to the current data, the middle cingulate cortex, in the context of multisensory-sickness–driven associations between IPS and whole-brain activations, may indicate a shared representation of an inflammatory state and associated discomfort.

In conclusion, the present study shows how subtle and early olfactory and visual sickness cues interact through cortical activation and may influence humans’ approach–avoidance tendencies. The study provides support for sensory integration of information from cues of visual and olfactory sickness in cortical multisensory convergences zones as being essential for the detection and evaluation of sick individuals. Both olfaction and vision, separately and following sensory integration, may thus be important parts of circuits handling imminent threats of contagion, motivating the avoidance of sick conspecifics (, ).

Mar 20, 2024

60 Minutes Australia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, life extension

More and more people around the world are taking their chances that science will advance significantly in the future so their preserved, frozen bodies can be revived back to life.

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Mar 20, 2024

Embodied Generalist LEO

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From Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) 2Peking University 3Carnegie Mellon University 4Tsinghua University.

🦁 Introducing LEO: an embodied generalist agent in 3D World🌎

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Mar 20, 2024

Japan’s Anti-Aging Vaccine: The Future of Longevity Revealed

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Welcome back to Virtual Reality James! In this exciting video, we delve into the groundbreaking topic of Japan’s Anti-Aging Vaccine and explore the future of longevity. Join us as we uncover the latest scientific advancements and reveal how this revolutionary vaccine could potentially transform the way we age.

Discover the secrets behind this cutting-edge technology that aims to slow down the aging process and enhance our quality of life. We’ll explore the science behind the vaccine, its potential benefits, and the implications it may have on society as a whole.

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Mar 20, 2024

Can algae save the world? | DW Documentary

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Using algae to solve humanity’s most pressing problems — that’s the ambitious aim of a team of researchers from Germany. After all, algae are posessed of staggering superpowers: for example, the ability to bind CO2. Algae can also be used to make plastic substitutes and even medication.

For a research project called \.