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Jan 15, 2023

Role Playing Via Generative AI ChatGPT Conjures Up Mental Health Questions, Stirring AI Ethics And AI Law Scrutiny

Posted by in categories: ethics, law, neuroscience, robotics/AI

They say that actors ought to fully immerse themselves into their roles. Uta Hagen, acclaimed Tony Award-winning actress and a legendary acting teacher said this: “It’s not about losing yourself in the role, it’s about finding yourself in the role.”

In today’s column, I’m going to take you on a journey of looking at how the latest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used for role-playing. This is not merely play-acting. Instead, people are opting to use a type of AI known as Generative AI including the social media headline-sparking AI app ChatGPT as a means of seeking self-growth via role-playing.


You might be wondering why I didn’t showcase a more alarming example of generative AI role-playing. I could do so, and you can readily find such examples online. For example, there are fantasy-style role-playing games that have the AI portray a magical character with amazing capabilities, all of which occur in written fluency on par with a human player. The AI in its role might for example try to (in the role-playing scenario) expunge the human player or might berate the human during the role-playing game.

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Jan 15, 2023

China’s AI Implementation Is Edging Ahead Of The US

Posted by in categories: economics, government, robotics/AI, space

As Kaifu Lee, a keen observer of AI development in China has put it, “we’re now in the age of AI implementation.” While the West, the U.S. and Canada in particular, will remain ahead in AI research, those Western advances are quickly adopted in China where the massive market, a surfeit of young engineers, government support and a cutthroat entrepreneurial culture are driving industrial innovation in AI.

“The digital and real economies are accelerating their integration,” said Baidu’s Chief Technology Officer, Haifeng Wang, who is also Head of Baidu Research.

China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and Vision 2030 both place a strong focus on the development of the digital economy, seeing this sector as a source of tremendous untapped innovative power and space for growth.

Jan 15, 2023

Ask Ethan: How can we comprehend the size of the Universe?

Posted by in category: space

Human beings are tiny creatures compared to the 92 billion light-year wide observable Universe. How can we comprehend such large scales?

Jan 15, 2023

Texas-based 3D printing company teaming up with NASA to put buildings on the moon

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, habitats, robotics/AI, space travel

Through a $57 million contract with NASA, ICON, a company out of Austin, is working to do just that. ICON wants to put a broad spectrum of infrastructure on the moon, which isn’t the easiest place to build.

“First of all, you need to be able to protect the astronauts from the lunar environment which is really a nasty place to live and work. Vacuumed environment, extreme temperature swings, radiation environment, micro-meteoroids, dust protection,” Clinton said. “To produce things like landing pads and roads and blast shields and shelters and habitats.”

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Jan 15, 2023

Take a look at the dazzling artwork being shown on a huge ‘digital canvas’ in London

Posted by in category: futurism

The Outernet is described as an “immersive entertainment district,” with immense LED screens showing digital art and “experiential advertising.”

Jan 15, 2023

Chronological list of Resources to Learn Deep Learning from Complete Beginner to Advanced Level

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Deep Learning is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to revolutionize many industries. It is a subset of machine learning that uses neural networks to model and solve complex problems. As a beginner, it can be overwhelming to know where to start learning about this exciting field. In this article, we will provide a chronological list of resources to help you learn deep learning from a complete beginner to an advanced level.

Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning that uses deep neural networks to model and solve complex problems. It is inspired by the structure and function of the human brain and involves training multi-layered neural networks to recognize patterns and make predictions or decisions. The “deep” in deep learning refers to the many layers in these neural networks, which allow them to learn and represent increasingly abstract features of the data. This allows them to perform tasks such as image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and predictive modeling with a high level of accuracy. Deep learning has been used to achieve state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications, and has been instrumental in the development of self-driving cars, speech recognition systems, and many other technologies.

There are a few prerequisites that are helpful to have before diving into deep learning:

Jan 15, 2023

90% of online content could be ‘generated by AI by 2025,’ expert says

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Generative AI, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, could completely revamp how digital content is developed, said Nina Schick, adviser, speaker, and A.I. thought leader told Yahoo Finance Live (video above).

“I think we might reach 90% of online content generated by AI by 2025, so this technology is exponential,” she said. “I believe that the majority of digital content is going to start to be produced by AI. You see ChatGPT… but there are a whole plethora of other platforms and applications that are coming up.”

The surge of interest in OpenAI’s DALL-E and ChatGPT has facilitated a wide-ranging public discussion about AI and its expanding role in our world, particularly generative AI.

Jan 15, 2023

BMC, research in progress

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, policy

A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series.


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Jan 15, 2023

Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes

Posted by in categories: education, mathematics

Still, Larsen’s most recent obsession felt different, “longer and more intense than most of his other projects,” she said. For more than a year and a half, Larsen couldn’t stop thinking about a certain math problem.


Then, in November 2021, Granville opened up an email from Larsen, then 17 years old and in his senior year of high school. A paper was attached — and to Granville’s surprise, it looked correct. “It wasn’t the easiest read ever,” he said. “But when I read it, it was quite clear that he wasn’t messing around. He had brilliant ideas.”

Pomerance, who read a later version of the work, agreed. “His proof is really quite advanced,” he said. “It would be a paper that any mathematician would be really proud to have written. And here’s a high school kid writing it.”

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Jan 15, 2023

Overactive Cell Metabolism Linked to Biological Aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

Why do cells, and by extension humans, age? The answer may have a lot to do with mitochondria, the organelles that supply cells with energy. Though that idea is not new, direct evidence in human cells had been lacking. Until now.

In a study published Jan. 12 in Communications Biology, a team led by Columbia University researchers has discovered that human cells with impaired mitochondria respond by kicking into higher gear and expending more energy. While this adaptation—called hypermetabolism—enhances the cells’ short-term survival, it comes at a high cost: a dramatic increase in the rate at which the cells age.

“The findings were made in cells from patients with rare mitochondrial diseases, yet they may also have relevance for other conditions that affect mitochondria, including neurodegenerative diseases, inflammatory conditions, and infections,” says principal investigator Martin Picard, PhD, associate professor of behavioral medicine (in psychiatry and neurology) at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.