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Hybridizing OI and AI, and adding what seems like a “human” component into our current advances, probably asks more questions than it answers. Here are some of those questions for the law, and how we might begin to think about them.

The Best — and Worst — of Brains

Envisioning how brain organoids might entangle themselves with the law doesn’t take a wild imaginative step; many of the questions we might have around brain organoid models are similar to the ones we’re currently grappling with regarding artificial intelligence. Would OI warrant recognition for the work it produces? And is that output protectible? Under current (and quickly-evolving) copyright developments, AI doesn’t meet the “human” requirement for authorship on its own. But AI (and OI) require human input to work, and there may be some wiggle room on AI work protection, either citing AI as a joint author with human operators, or drawing a line at a certain threshold of human control in the AI-generated work as sufficient for copyright protection.

AGI by the end of the decade?

Ishida, T. Sci Rep 14, 2086 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52475-9

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The breakthrough blends biological and mechanical elements, sparking ethical debates.

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Facepalm: Crashes experienced by customers owning recent high-end Intel processors aren’t just software or BIOS-related issues. Alderon Games founder Matthew Cassells says Chipzilla has made his company’s life much more complicated than it should be. The game developer has experienced considerable Intel CPU problems, including crashes, instability, and memory corruption.

The number of people and organizations forced to experience crashes and general instability on Intel’s latest CPU models keeps growing. Now, a game developer is blatantly pointing the finger at the Santa Clara corporation and its alleged “defective” products.

“Despite all released microcode, BIOS, and firmware updates, the problem remains unresolved,” Cassells said.

The German Navy is searching for a new storage system to replace the aging 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks which are vital to the running of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. According to an official tender document, the ideal answer to the German Navy’s problems would be a drop-in floppy disk replacement based upon a storage emulation system, reports Golem.de.

Germany’s Brandenburg class F123 frigates were commissioned in the mid 1990s, so it is understandable that floppy disks were seen as a handy removable storage medium. These drives are part of the frigates’ data acquisition system and, thus “central to controlling basic ship functions such as propulsion and power generation,” according to the source report.