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Dec 20, 2022
Prof. DAVID CHALMERS — Consciousness in LLMs [Special Edition]
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: media & arts, neuroscience, physics
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If you don’t like the background music, we published a version with it all removed here — https://anchor.fm/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Music-R…on-e1sf1l7
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Dec 20, 2022
Infinity AI raises $5M seed round to build automated synthetic training data
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Dec 20, 2022
Biological Information beyond Genes: Bioelectricity | Michael Levin
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: biological
Extract from “Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces”, kindly contributed by Michael Levin in SEMF’s 2022 Spacious Spatiality.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLiHLDrOTW8
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Dec 20, 2022
A new AI chatbot might do your homework for you. But it’s still not an A+ student
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
ChatGPT gives users their very own virtual assistant. It could transform academia, experts say — for better and worse.
Dec 20, 2022
Nasal flu vaccine may help protect children against strep A, study shows
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, health, security
Giving children the nasal flu vaccine may help protect them against strep A, according to analysis by the UK Health Security Agency.
UKHSA pilot scheme shows strep A infections lower in areas where nasal vaccine offered to all young children.
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Dec 20, 2022
Elon Musk says Twitter will only let paying Blue subscribers vote in policy-related polls after users voted to oust him as CEO
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: Elon Musk, policy
Musk’s response came after 57.5% Twitter users voted in favour of him stepping down as the CEO of the social media company.
Dec 19, 2022
A Solution To Musk’s Fear Of Population Collapse? Artificial Womb Facility Could Grow 30,000 Babies A Year
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk
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Billionaire Elon Musk has frequently spoken about his concerns about underpopulation. He has mentioned that people should focus on having more babies to resolve the problem of low birth rates and population collapse.
Earlier this year, Musk shared how the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lower birth rate instead of the “baby boom” expected due to people being forced to stay indoors.
Dec 19, 2022
Turning Cells Into “Zombies”: Scientists Identify the Secret That Allowed a Parasite To Infect 30% of Humans
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
A large portion of people on the planet is infected with the parasite Toxoplasma. Now, a study headed by scientists at Stockholm University demonstrates how this tiny parasite spreads so successfully throughout the body, for example to the brain. The parasite infects immune cells and hijacks their identity. The research was recently published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.
The various roles of immune cells in the body are very strictly regulated in order to combat infections. How Toxoplasma infects so many people and animal species and spreads so quickly has long been a mystery to scientists.
“We have now discovered a protein that the parasite uses to reprogram the immune system”, says Arne ten Hoeve, a researcher at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University.
Dec 19, 2022
Bubbles Have an Unexpected Chill
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: energy, entertainment
Bubbles are ubiquitous, existing in everything from the foam on a beer to party toys for children. Despite this pervasiveness, there are open questions on the behavior of bubbles, such as why some bubbles are more resistant to bursting than others. Now Francois Boulogne and colleagues from the University of Paris-Saclay have taken a step toward answering that question by measuring the temperature of the film surrounding a soap bubble, finding that it can be significantly lower than that of its local environment [1]. The team says that the result could help industrial manufacturers of bubbles better control the stability of their products.
On a sunny day, our bodies cool down by releasing energy into the environment through the evaporation of sweat. Soap films also release energy by losing liquid via evaporation. Researchers studying bubbles have tracked the evaporation of a soap film’s liquid content under different conditions. But those experiments all assumed that the film’s temperature matched that of the environment, an assumption the results of Boulogne and his colleagues challenge.
In their experiments Boulogne and colleagues created a soap bubble from a mixture made of dishwashing liquid, water, and glycerol. They then measured the soap film’s temperature under a variety of environmental conditions. They found that the film could be up to 8 °C colder than the surrounding air. They also found that glycerol content of the soap film impacted this temperature difference, with films containing more glycerol having higher temperatures. Boulogne says that such a large temperature difference could impact bubble stability. But, he adds, further experiments are needed to corroborate that idea.
