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Dec 6, 2023
Meta AI develops a Non-invasive method to Decode Speech from Brain Activity
Posted by Natalie Chan in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, robotics/AI
Recent technological advancements have opened invaluable opportunities for assisting people who are experiencing impairments or disabilities. For instance, they have enabled the creation of tools to support physical rehabilitation, to practice social skills, and to provide daily assistance with specific tasks.
Researchers at Meta AI recently developed a promising and non-invasive method to decode speech from a person’s brain activity, which could allow people who are unable to speak to relay their thoughts via a computer interface. Their proposed method, presented in Nature Machine Intelligence, merges the use of an imaging technique and machine learning.
“After a stroke, or a brain disease, many patients lose their ability to speak,” Jean Remi King, Research Scientist at Meta, told Medical Xpress. “In the past couple of years, major progress has been achieved to develop a neural prosthesis: a device, typically implanted on the motor cortex of the patients, which can be used, through AI, to control a computer interface. This possibility, however, still requires brain surgery, and is thus not without risks.”
Dec 6, 2023
Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: biological, climatology, neuroscience
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in old age. The reasons for this U-shape are still unclear. Present theories emphasize sociological and economic forces. In this study we show that a similar U-shape exists in 508 great apes (two samples of chimpanzees and one sample of orangutans) whose well-being was assessed by raters familiar with the individual apes. This U-shaped pattern or “midlife crisis” emerges with or without use of parametric methods. Our results imply that human well-being’s curved shape is not uniquely human and that, although it may be partly explained by aspects of human life and society, its origins may lie partly in the biology we share with great apes. These findings have implications across scientific and social-scientific disciplines, and may help to identify ways of enhancing human and ape well-being.
Dec 6, 2023
Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: biological, neuroscience
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in old age. The reasons for this U-shape are still unclear. Present theories emphasize sociological and economic forces. In this study we show that a similar U-shape exists in 508 great apes (two samples of chimpanzees and one sample of orangutans) whose well-being was assessed by raters familiar with the individual apes. This U-shaped pattern or “midlife crisis” emerges with or without use of parametric methods. Our results imply that human well-being’s curved shape is not uniquely human and that, although it may be partly explained by aspects of human life and society, its origins may lie partly in the biology we share with great apes. These findings have implications across scientific and social-scientific disciplines, and may help to identify ways of enhancing human and ape well-being.
Dec 6, 2023
Vesuvius Challenge: Can AI decipher these mysterious ancient scrolls?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
The eruption of Vesuvius preserved an ancient library, but rendered its fabled contents illegible. Can AI restore what’s lost?
Dec 6, 2023
Elon Musk’s AI startup — X.AI — files to raise $1 billion in fresh capital
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: Elon Musk, internet, robotics/AI, space
X.AI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering. The company has raised nearly $135 million from four investors, with the first sale occurring on Nov. 29, according to the filing. The AI startup, which Musk announced in July,…
X.AI, an artificial intelligence startup founded by Elon Musk, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering.
The company has already brought in nearly $135 million from four investors, with the first sale occurring on Nov. 29, and has a “binding and enforceable agreement” for the purchase of the remaining shares, the filing says.
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Dec 6, 2023
‘There’s no winning strategy’: the pacy, visually stunning film about the dangers of AI — made by AI
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
Is artificial intelligence going to put artists out of a job? Alan Warburton decided to make a film posing that very question – using AI. The result was disturbingly watchable.
Dec 6, 2023
A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Adversarial algorithms can systematically probe large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 for weaknesses that can make them misbehave.
Dec 6, 2023
AMD To Launch AI Chip Wednesday That Could Heat Up Competition With Nvidia
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: robotics/AI
KEY TAKEAWAYSAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Wednesday is to launch its latest chip designed for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The launch event could feature a comparison with competing Nvidia products and an appearance from Microsoft, Wedbush analysts said in a research report. The new…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is set to unveil its latest chip designed to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems on Wednesday, a move that could help the chipmaker compete with Nvidia (NVDA) amid the AI boom.
The company is to launch the Instinct MI300 data center graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator, at Wednesday’s AMD “Advancing AI” event. Alongside the new AI chip, AMD says it will “highlight the company’s growing momentum with AI hardware and software partners.”
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Dec 6, 2023
‘Mega-deals’ could be inflating overall AI funding figures
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: health, robotics/AI
It’s safe to say that VCs struck while the iron was hot this year where it concerned generative AI.
A recent report from Pitchbook shows that ‘mega-deals’ could be inflating AI startup funding totals, giving a misleading picture of the sector’s health.