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Jan 22, 2023

2001: A Space Odyssey, retro 1950s Version

Posted by in category: space

What if 2001 had been made a dozen or so years earlier? I used images from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVD11FE3oQ&feature=related to recreate the famous shuttle/space station docking scene with Strauss’s “Blue Danube”.

Jan 22, 2023

‘Scientists find leprosy bacteria could be force for good

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Dr Miriam Stoppard writes how the ancient infection leprosy — once such a disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled — could now help people’s health Leprosy is an ancient infection, common in biblical times, causing such disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled to isolated colonies miles from anywhere.

Jan 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence & the Importance of Civics | Global Stage | GZERO Media

Posted by in categories: education, policy, robotics/AI

Developing new AI is dangerous. But not doing it is even riskier.


We need more civic education on artificial intelligence, says Eileen Donahoe.

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Jan 22, 2023

Resting Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability: What’s Optimal, 1600+ Days of Data

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

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Jan 22, 2023

A sermon written by AI — are robotic rabbis next?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

New York Senior Rabbi Josh Franklin, of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, surprised his congregation earlier this week by delivering a sermon written entirely by Artificial Intelligence (AI.)

The rabbi used the ChatGPT chatbot, a free-to-access AI program launched in November of last year.

After reading the AI-written piece, Rabbi Franklin asked his congregation to guess who had written the sermon. In response, the congregation incorrectly guessed that Rabbi Jonathan Sacks had written the piece.

Jan 22, 2023

‘AI will take 20% of all jobs within five YEARS’ expert warns

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

AI-powered bots like ChatGPT are changing how humans interact with computers, but with its ability to write poems and take exams, some people fear this technology will takeover the job market.

Jan 22, 2023

Google may soon demo an AI Search chatbot amid pressure from ChatGPT

Posted by in categories: business, mobile phones, robotics/AI

It seems Google is feeling the heat from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has taken the tech world by storm over the last couple months, as it can provide users with information they’re looking for in an easy-to-understand format. Google sees ChatGPT as a threat to its search business and has shifted plans accordingly over the last several weeks, according to The New York Times.

The report claims CEO Sundar Pichai has declared a “code red” and accelerated AI development. Google is reportedly preparing to show off at least 20 AI-powered products and a chatbot for its search engine this year, with at least some set to debut at its I/O conference in May.

According to a slide deck viewed by the Times, among the AI projects Google is working on are an image generation tool, an upgraded version of AI Test Kitchen (an app used to test prototypes), a TikTok-style green screen mode for YouTube and a tool that can generate videos to summarize other clips. Also in the pipeline are a feature titled Shopping Try-on (perhaps akin to one Amazon has been developing), a wallpaper creator for Pixel phones and AI-driven tools that could make it easier for developers to create Android apps.

Jan 22, 2023

A Biological Wonder: Harvard Researchers Discover Embryonic Origins of Adult Pluripotent Stem Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Stem cells are a remarkable biological wonder that have the ability to repair, replace and regenerate cells. In most animals and humans, stem cells are limited to generating only specific types of cells. For example, hair stem cells will only produce hair, and intestine stem cells will only produce intestines. However, many distantly-related invertebrates.

Invertebrates are animals that do not have a backbone. They make up the majority of the animal kingdom and include animals such as insects, worms, mollusks, and arachnids. Invertebrates are found in almost every habitat on Earth, from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountains. They play important roles in the ecosystem as decomposers, pollinators, and as a food source for other animals. Invertebrates have a wide range of body shapes, sizes, and behaviors, and they have evolved a variety of ways to survive and thrive in their environments.

Jan 21, 2023

How one woman’s ‘immortal’ cells changed the world

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman from Baltimore, died of cancer. However, before her death a small sample of her cells were taken from her without her knowledge, and these cells did not die. Unlike every other previous sample of human cells, these continued to grow and multiply and still do so today. The HeLa cells became the first ‘immortalised human cell line’ and have helped both save and create millions of lives ever since. Video by Dan John Animation by Lily Baker.

Jan 21, 2023

ChatGPT: AGI by 2024, the hard part is now done

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

ChatGPT is not yet AGI, so-called, artificial general intelligence. And it may have some fundamental limitations. But here I argue we might get early GPT-based AGI around 2024. Let’s talk about how that might happen.

Here’s a few quick assumptions I make: