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The recent introduction of the breathtaking AI tool ChatGPT has sparked a national dialogue about the future of artificial intelligence in health care, education, research, and beyond. In this session, four UCSF experts discuss AI’s current and potential uses, in areas ranging from research to education to clinical care. After a brief presentation by each speaker, DOM Chair Bob Wachter moderates a far-ranging panel discussion on the health care applications of ChatGPT.

Speakers:
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics; director, UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute; chief data scientist, University of California Health System.

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The blood cancer treatment venetoclax (Venclexta; Roche, Genentech, AbbVie) was found to kill latent HIV-infected cells, indicating a possible new treatment for the virus, according to the results of a preclinical study by the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.

When HIV-infected cells are latent, the virus remains in the body and is untreatable by therapies currently on the market, which is why patients with HIV must stay on treatment to suppress the virus. Currently, antiretroviral therapies (ART) are the standard of care treatment for patients with HIV, however, they cannot target latent infection.

Although antiretroviral therapies are the standard of care treatment for those with HIV, the drugs cannot target latent infections; however, venetoclax, a blood cancer treatment, shows promise.

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The psychedelic drug MDMA can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers reported in a new study published Thursday.

The company sponsoring the research said it plans later this year to seek U.S. approval to market the drug, also known as ecstasy, as a PTSD treatment when combined with talk therapy.

“It’s the first innovation in PTSD treatment in more than two decades. And it’s significant because I think it will also open up other innovation,” said Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corporation, the research sponsor.”

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You can now speak aloud to ChatGPT and hear the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot talk back.

OpenAI, the startup behind the wildly-popular chatbot, announced Monday that it is rolling out new features including the ability to let users engage in a back-and-forth voice conversation with ChatGPT.

In a company blog post Monday, OpenAI teased how this new feature can be used to request a bedtime story for your family, or settle a dinner table debate.

Blood plasma from young donors treating age-related conditions (RAADfest 2023)

Computer performance is measured in FLOPS, or floating-point operations per second. The first supercomputer, which was developed in 1964, could run 3,000,000 FLOPS, i.e., 3 megaFLOPS. Exa means 18 zeros, meaning 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS. An exascale computer can perform that many operations — something that is almost impossible to imagine.

Now, there is a huge advantage to commanding that kind of computing power in today’s world. Here is what the same McKinsey report says: “Exascale computing could allow scientists to solve problems that have until now been impossible. With exascale, exponential increases in memory, storage, and compute power may drive breakthroughs in several industries: energy production, storage, transmission, materials science, heavy industry, chemical design, AI and machine learning, cancer research and treatment, earthquake risk assessment, and many more.”

Put simply, China now may have the computing power at its disposal to match, or even overtake, technology leaders like the United States in several areas that could be key to becoming the dominant economic and military power in the world. China could also pair its advances in artificial intelligence with this mind-boggling computering power and achieve technological and military dominance quite quickly.

Although this is mostly a joke that a furby would take over the world it is also a great idea for teaching kids Basically everything imagine a God level furby that could answer any question and even do your homework what a great toy 😗😁.

Furby has come back from the dead to take over the world — and this time it’s in the form of a ChatGPT-powered toy.

Jessica Card, a computer science student at the University of Vermont, shared a clip on Twitter on Sunday, April 1, showing the animatronic Furby’s face — spiked antennas for ears, beak and all — answering this one question based on a script written by ChatGPT: “Is there a secret by Furbies to take over the world?” After thinking for 10 seconds, the AI-powered abomination revealed its species’ plot for world domination.

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Toymint Launches TeddyGPT, a Revolutionary AI Companion that Combines Physical and Digital Play for an Immersive and Educational Experience.

ChatGPT is taking the world by storm and people are continuing to discover interesting new uses for the technology. As the name suggests, its original primary purpose was to act as a very sophisticated chat bot. But it can do much more, including writing code and simple articles. It can also mirror some of the capabilities of voice assistants like Siri and Alexa when combined with voice-to-text and text-to-speech services. Adafruit’s M. LeBlanc-Williams used that capability to create a voice assistant teddy reminiscent of Teddy Ruxpin.

Teddy Ruxpin is an animatronic teddy bear toy for children first released in 1985, when it became an instant success. Using a cassette player build into the back, the original Teddy Ruxpin could read stories aloud to children while moving around. Because cassette tapes have two audio tracks for stereo sound, the toy could use one audio track for the story and use the other for data. That data would contain movement commands, letting Teddy Ruxpin move along with the audio in a choreographed manner. The technology was quite impressive for the time, but doesn’t come close to what LeBlanc-Williams achieved here.

LeBlanc-Williams started with a Peek-A-Boo Teddy Bear from a company called GUND. This is a toy similar to Teddy Ruxpin, but more rudimentary. It can only recite a handful of different pre-recorded audio clips while moving its mouth and pulling up a sheet with its arms to play peek-a-boo. For this project to work, LeBlanc-Williams had to replace the original electronic components with more powerful hardware.