Now, a new Columbia University study in Nature Nanotechnology demonstrated that these “nanobubbles” can deliver potent immunotherapy directly to tough-to-treat lung cancer tumors via inhalation.
“Exosomes work like text messages between cells, sending and receiving information,” said lead researcher Ke Cheng, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia. “The significance of this study is that exosomes can bring mRNA-based treatment to lung cancer cells locally, unlike systemic chemotherapy that can have side effects throughout the body. And inhalation is totally noninvasive. You don’t need a nurse to use an IV needle to pierce your skin.”
Chinese scientists have developed a new type of lens that can be used for health care and augmented reality (AR). Based on radio frequency, the eye-tracking smart contact lenses don’t require battery or conventional silicon chips and are biocompatible and imperceptible.
Set to be used for human-machine interaction (HMI), the smart contact lenses rely on tracking eye movements. The lenses use methods like pupil center corneal reflection and electrooculography (EOG) to track eye movements.
Researchers aiming to create a secure quantum version of the internet need a device called a quantum repeater, which doesn’t yet exist — but now two teams say they are well on the way to building one.
A powerful volcanic eruption occurred on one of the Indonesian islands, sending a column of smoke and ash up to 3 miles high. Tens of thousands of people are at risk of evacuation, though no orders have been given yet. Indonesia is one of the world’s most dangerous areas for volcanic activity. Eruptions are common, but the last one was notably larg…
Designing efficient in-memory-computing architectures remains a challenge. Here the authors develop a multi-level FeFET crossbar for multi-bit MAC operations encoded in activation time and accumulated current with experimental validation at 28nm achieving 96.6% accuracy and high performance of 885 TOPS/W.
Artificial general intelligence through an AI photonic chip face_with_colon_three
The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) continuously demands higher computing performance. Despite the superior processing speed and efficiency of integrated photonic circuits, their capacity and scalability are restricted by unavoidable errors, such that only simple tasks and shallow models are realized. To support modern AGIs, we designed Taichi—large-scale photonic chiplets based on an integrated diffractive-interference hybrid design and a general distributed computing architecture that has millions-of-neurons capability with 160–tera-operations per second per watt (TOPS/W) energy efficiency. Taichi experimentally achieved on-chip 1000-category–level classification (testing at 91.89% accuracy in the 1623-category Omniglot dataset) and high-fidelity artificial intelligence–generated content with up to two orders of magnitude of improvement in efficiency.
On the day of the ChatGPT-4o announcement, Sam Altman sat down to share behind-the-scenes details of the launch and offer his predictions for the future of AI. Altman delves into OpenAI’s vision, discusses the timeline for achieving AGI, and explores the societal impact of humanoid robots. He also expresses his excitement and concerns about AI personal assistants, highlights the biggest opportunities and risks in the AI landscape today, and much more.
(00:00) Intro. (00:50) The Personal Impact of Leading OpenAI (01:44) Unveiling Multimodal AI: A Leap in Technology. (02:47) The Surprising Use Cases and Benefits of Multimodal AI (03:23) Behind the Scenes: Making Multimodal AI Possible. (08:36) Envisioning the Future of AI in Communication and Creativity. (10:21) The Business of AI: Monetization, Open Source, and Future Directions. (16:42) AI’s Role in Shaping Future Jobs and Experiences. (20:29) Debunking AGI: A Continuous Journey Towards Advanced AI (24:04) Exploring the Pace of Scientific and Technological Progress. (24:18) The Importance of Interpretability in AI (25:11) Navigating AI Ethics and Regulation. (27:26) The Safety Paradigm in AI and Beyond. (28:55) Personal Reflections and the Impact of AI on Society. (29:11) The Future of AI: Fast Takeoff Scenarios and Societal Changes. (30:59) Navigating Personal and Professional Challenges. (40:21) The Role of AI in Creative and Personal Identity. (43:09) Educational System Adaptations for the AI Era. (44:30) Contemplating the Future with Advanced AI
