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Mar 9, 2024

A plan to bring down drug prices could threaten America’s technology boom

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, policy

As it stands, the draft policy would undermine the long-standing Bayh-Dole Act, with unintended consequences for innovation.

Mar 9, 2024

OpenAI announces new board members, reinstates CEO Sam Altman

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI has announced new additions to its board of directors, including CEO Sam Altman, who lost his seat in a power struggle months ago.

Mar 9, 2024

The AI Takeover In Cinema: How Movie Studios Use Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in categories: entertainment, finance, information science, media & arts, robotics/AI

The film industry, always at the forefront of technological innovation, is increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize movie production, distribution, and marketing. From script analysis to post-production, Already AI is reshaping how movies are made and consumed. Let’s explore the current applications of AI in movie studios and speculates on future uses, highlighting real examples and the transformative impact of these technologies.

AI’s infiltration into the movie industry begins at the scriptwriting stage. Tools like ScriptBook use natural language processing to analyze scripts, predict box office success, and offer insights into plot and character development. For instance, 20th Century Fox employed AI to analyze the script of Logan, which helped in making informed decisions about the movie’s plot and themes. Consider, in pre-production, AI has also aided in casting and location scouting. Warner Bros. partnered with Cinelytic to use AI for casting decisions, evaluating an actor’s market value to predict a film’s financial success. For example, let’s look at location scouting. AI algorithms can sift through thousands of hours of footage to identify suitable filming locations, streamlining what was once a time-consuming process.

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Mar 9, 2024

Balancing data and human knowledge could fuel scientist-like AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Just like how you teach a kid to walk, scientists are teaching AI rules and regulations to make it more efficient.

Mar 9, 2024

SELFI: Autonomous Self-improvement with Reinforcement Learning for Social Navigation

Posted by in categories: policy, robotics/AI

On socially compliant navigation: Researchers show how real-world RL-based finetuning can enable mobile robots to adapt on the fly to the behavior of humans, to obstacles, and other challenges associated with real-world navigation:


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Mar 9, 2024

An ‘RNA World’ Could Have Kickstarted Life on Earth

Posted by in category: futurism

New experiments suggest it was once RNA’s world, and now we’re just living in it.

Mar 9, 2024

A small-molecule TNIK inhibitor targets fibrosis in preclinical and clinical models

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

On the way to rejuvenation using AI and multidisciplinary knowledge!


An AI-generated small-molecule inhibitor treats fibrosis in vivo and in phase I clinical trials.

Mar 9, 2024

Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

At the heart of AI, matrix math has just seen its biggest boost “in more than a decade.”

Mar 9, 2024

AI can predict and prevent fusion plasma instabilities in milliseconds

Posted by in categories: physics, robotics/AI

A team of engineers, physicists, and data scientists from Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict—and then avoid—the formation of a specific type of plasma instability in magnetic confinement fusion tokamaks. The researchers built and trained a model using past experimental data from operations at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego, Calif., before proving through real-time experiments that their model could forecast so-called tearing mode instabilities up to 300 milliseconds in advance—enough time for an AI controller to adjust operating parameters and avoid a tear in the plasma that could potentially end the fusion reaction.

Mar 9, 2024

Women in AI: Sandra Watcher, professor of data ethics at Oxford

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI

Sandra Watcher, profiled as part of TechCrunch’s series on women in AI, is a professor of data ethics at the University of Oxford.