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Feb 15, 2023

Coinbase Ready to Fight SEC over Crypto Staking Service

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Brian Armstrong said the exchange will “happily defend” its Coinbase Earn staking service in court days after competitor Kraken paid a $30 million fine and ended its program.

Feb 15, 2023

Microsoft’s new AI chatbot gets date wrong, accuses user of being stubborn

Posted by in categories: finance, robotics/AI

I have to admit, it’s very human like. It makes we wonder if the incident if fabricated, but it may also be true.


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The concept of a conversational chatbot shot to fame with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can provide paraphrased answers for users’ detailed queries and write poetry or code with equal ease. Microsoft, which has provided financial support for OpenAI’s work, has incorporated the chatbot into its Bing search engine, providing users with a new way to search for information. The service’s rollout is still slow, with few users getting access. However, their experience has been interesting.

Feb 15, 2023

Microsoft permanently disables Internet Explorer for all devices

Posted by in category: internet

Microsoft announced some heartbreaking news for Internet Explorer users on Valentine’s Day: Internet Explorer is no more.

The company has permanently disabled the desktop version of Internet Explorer on certain versions of Windows 10, and updated its newer browser, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft announced Tuesday.

All other consumer and commercial devices that weren’t already redirected from Explorer to Microsoft Edge will also be affected, the company said. Now, when users attempt to access Explorer, they will be redirected to Edge.

Feb 15, 2023

WHO hopes to test an experimental Marburg virus vaccine amid outbreak in Equatorial Guinea

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

The World Health Organization hopes to test an experimental Marburg vaccine in Equatorial Guinea, which announced its first outbreak of the virus Monday.

Nine deaths have been confirmed, while 16 suspected patients are in quarantine. Health officials are also monitoring 15 asymptomatic close contacts of infected people.

No vaccine or antiviral treatment is approved to treat Marburg virus disease, which has an average death rate of around 50%, according to the WHO.

Feb 15, 2023

Beyond the brain: multiscale diverse intelligence as biological inspiration for AI

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

This is a talk I gave to an audience of computer scientists and neuroscientists, interested in AI, consciousness, and the brain.

Feb 15, 2023

NASA’s CAPSTONE moon probe bounces back from 11-day communications glitch

Posted by in category: space

NASA’s CAPSTONE moon mission had a communications glitch that took 11 days to resolve, but all is back to normal after controllers rebooted the spacecraft.

Feb 15, 2023

VALIS

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Feb 15, 2023

Collective intelligence of cell swarms | Prof. Michael Levin | AI Forward Forum

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Professor of Biology at Tufts University Michael Levin shows the remarkable plasticity of somatic (non-neural) cells and the way they communicate through bioelectric signalling to produce different morphologies. He argues that cellular control of growth and form is a type of collective intelligence.

Prof. Levin also shows that by manipulating bioelectric signalling between cells it is possible to change what the cells are going to build. The particular examples include converting one type of tadpole tissue into another, making planaria (a type of flatworm) to regrow two heads, etc. Prof. Levin’s and his team work has profound theoretical contributions towards understanding better biological intelligence, and from the practical side, it may lead to applications in biomedicine (solving birth defects, curing degenerative disease and cancer).

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Feb 15, 2023

What Stephen Hawking would have discovered if he lived longer | NASA’s Michelle Thaller | Big Think

Posted by in categories: alien life, mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics

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Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientific and analytical minds of our time, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller. She posits that Hawking might be one of the parents of an entirely new school of physics because he was working on some incredible stuff—concerning quantum entaglement— right before he died. He was even humble enough to go back to his old work about black holes and rethink his hypotheses based on new information. Not many great minds would do that, she says, relaying just one of the reasons Stephen Hawking will be so deeply missed. You can follow Michelle Thaller on Twitter at @mlthaller.

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Feb 15, 2023

Indian employers on LinkedIn looking for candidates who can work with ChatGPT, create automated content

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The ability to work with ChatGPT is becoming a valuable skill for job seekers, as they need to be able to extract relevant responses to create high-quality content.