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Aug 19, 2023
New tool from Cyabra uses AI to crack down on bots, AI-generated spam
Posted by Marcia Wiegand in categories: cybercrime/malcode, Elon Musk, robotics/AI
So if I understand this…send a bot to catch a bot?
Israeli tech start-up Cyabra, which worked with Elon Musk to evaluate the presence of bots on Twitter, released a new tool that can detect AI-generated text, images and profiles.
Aug 19, 2023
Microsoft plans AI service with Databricks that could hurt OpenAI- The Information
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: business, robotics/AI
(Reuters) – Microsoft is planning to start selling a new version of Databricks software that helps customers make AI apps for their businesses, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people with direct knowledge of the plan.
Databricks – a data analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence, which Microsoft would sell through its Azure cloud-server unit – helps companies make AI models from scratch or repurpose open-source models as an alternative to licensing OpenAI’s proprietary ones, the report added.
Microsoft and Databricks did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Aug 19, 2023
23-million-year-old Otter-Like Seal May Have Used Whiskers to Forage
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: evolution, food, neuroscience
An ancient relative of modern seals—known as Potamotherium valletoni—that had an otter-like appearance and lived over 23 million years ago likely used its whiskers to forage for food and explore underwater environments, according to a new study in Communications Biology. The findings provide further insight into how ancient seals transitioned from life on land to life underwater.
Although modern seals live in marine environments and use their whiskers to locate food by sensing vibrations in the water, ancient seal relatives mostly lived on land or in freshwater environments. Some species used their forelimbs to explore their surroundings. Prior to this study, it was unclear when seals and their relatives began using their whiskers to forage.
Alexandra van der Geer and colleagues investigated the evolution of whisker-foraging behaviors in seals by comparing the brain structures of Potamotherium with those of six extinct and 31 living meat-eating mammals, including mustelids, bears, and seal relatives. Brain structures were inferred from casts taken from the inside of skulls.
Aug 19, 2023
Process Physics, Time and Consciousness — Presentation Whitehead Psychology Nexus 2015
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: physics, robotics/AI, space
Conference presentation of “Process Physics, Time and Consciousness: Nature as an internally meaningful, habit-establishing process.” As presented at the Whitehead Psychology Nexus Workshop Conference held in Fontareches, France, March 27-30th, 2015 (with some minor adjustments). For full published paper, see: https://tinyurl.com/yc9r6kys (date of publication: October 18, 2017).
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Aug 19, 2023
The Anticipatory Remembered Present (presentation)
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: neuroscience, physics
A presentation on the conception of the present moment in physics and cognitive neuroscience (presented at the 3rd European Summer School in Process Thought in Düsseldorf, Germany, 25–29 September 2014).
Aug 19, 2023
Eye-tracking study sheds light on gaze patterns in conversations
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: neuroscience
A recent study used special eye-tracking technology to investigate how people look at each other’s eyes and faces during conversations. The researchers, who published their results in Scientific Reports, found that people who exhibited more direct eye-to-eye contact during their conversation tended to also be better at following the direction of another’s gaze (they were better at understanding where the other person was looking). The research provides unique insights into non-verbal communication.
Much of human social communication occurs nonverbally, and eye contact plays a crucial role in allowing individuals to convey and interpret information such as attention, mental states, intentions, and emotions. Eye contact is not only passively received but also reciprocated through mutual looks.
The researchers wanted to examine the frequency and types of mutual looking behaviors, such as direct eye-to-eye contact and other gaze interactions involving different parts of the face. They were also interested in understanding how the mutual looking behaviors observed during interactions might influence subsequent gaze-following behavior.
Aug 19, 2023
Injury patterns associated with cognitive motor dissociation
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Franzova and Shen et al. report that unresponsive patients with cognitive motor dissociation have intact ascending arousal pathways, preserved thalamocortical f.
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Aug 19, 2023
Experimental procedure improves vision of patients whose eyes were damaged, study finds
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
An experimental procedure was found to improve the vision of patients whose eyes were damaged, according to a new study. NBC News’ Kristen Dahlgren has more on the procedure, which uses stem cells to restore the cornea.