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Mar 16, 2023

Exposure to negative socio-emotional events induces sustained alteration of resting-state brain networks in older adults Aging

Posted by in categories: life extension, neuroscience

Baez-Lugo et al. show that increased functional brain connectivity between default mode network and amygdala in resting state after high emotional events is associated to higher anxiety, rumination and negative thoughts in older adults.

Mar 16, 2023

The multiverse: Our universe is suspiciously unlikely to exist—unless it is one of many, says physicist

Posted by in categories: alien life, physics

It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organized complex systems, could arise. Should we therefore be surprised that a universe exists in which we were able to emerge?

That’s a question physicists including me have tried to answer for decades. But it is proving difficult. Although we can confidently trace cosmic history back to one second after the Big Bang, what happened before is harder to gauge. Our accelerators simply can’t produce enough energy to replicate the that prevailed in the first nanosecond.

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Mar 16, 2023

Claude, a new AI chatbot is built by ex-OpenAI employees

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Anthropic has trained its chatbot without any human intervention to be harmless, and helpful. How will it really work in the real world is its true test.

Mar 16, 2023

Baidu Set to Launch its Own Version of ChatGPT

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Chinese tech company Baidu (BIDU) has been working to meet a March 16 deadline for the launch of its AI chatbot nicknamed ‘Ernie Bot.’

Mar 15, 2023

GPT-4 Faked Being Blind So a TaskRabbit Worker Would Solve a CAPTCHA

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Well, this shows some dangers of AI.


“No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 replied to the TaskRabbit, who then provided the AI with the results.

OpenAI and the Alignment Research Center did not immediately return Gizmodo’s request for comment.

Mar 15, 2023

SpaceX Starship has a 50% chance of crashing

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

American billionaire Elon Musk has begun preparing the public for the failed launch of the Starship spacecraft. But the head of SpaceX promises that the launch will be impressive.

Here’s What We Know

Starship will be used in 2025 to land humans on the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. The spacecraft is also due to take part in manned missions to Mars 20 years from now. However, it needs at least one successful flight test to begin with.

Mar 15, 2023

Isaac Asimov: The 3 Laws of Robotics

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Mar 15, 2023

Microsoft’s New Voice Replicator VALL-E X Features Translation, Accent Control

Posted by in category: futurism

https://youtube.com/watch?v=17_xLsqny9E

Microsoft’s text-to-speech model VALL-E can mimic anyone’s voice with little training data. Now it can do so across languages while replicating emotion.

Mar 15, 2023

Google just launched Generative AI across ALL of Google Workspace

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

— Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Images — everything. It’s being rolled out over the next months to everyone.

It’s being rolled out over the next months to everyone.

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Mar 15, 2023

Our Gattaca Exclusive Confirmed By The Hollywood Reporter

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, employment, genetics, law, robotics/AI, space travel, transhumanism

Our trusted and proven sources were correct once again, as just hours after we broke the news that a Gattaca series is in development at Showtime, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed our exclusive. One of our writers here at Giant Freakin Robot wrote just two weeks ago that the 1997 dystopian sci-fi classic would be perfect as a television series, and it’s amazing how quickly we went from hoping it would happen to confirming that it is. The new series will be coming from the creators of Homeland, Howard Gordan and Alex Gansa.

As noted in our initial report, this is not the first time the film, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law, has been optioned as a series. Back in 2009, Sony attempted to turn the movie into a procedural from Gil Grant, a writer on 24 and NCIS. The underrated cult-classic movie is ideal for transforming into a prestige series on a premium network as its themes on transhumanism, genetic manipulation, and a stratified society have become more relevant as technology leaps forwards every year.

In Gattaca, eugenics separates society into “valids” and “in-valids,” even if genetic discrimination is illegal; that hasn’t stopped businesses from profiling, giving the best jobs to the former and only menial labor opportunities to the latter. Ethan Hawke plays Vincent, an in-valid with a heart defect that uses samples from Jude Law’s Jerome Morrow, a paralyzed Olympic champion swimmer that’s also a valid. Using the purloined DNA, Vincent cons his way into a job at Gattaca Aerospace Corporation, eventually being selected as a navigator for a trip to Saturn’s moon, Titan.