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Feb 29, 2024
A safer treatment path for high-risk children to overcome food allergies
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, food, health
New research from the University of British Columbia reveals a safe path to overcoming food allergies for older children and others who can’t risk consuming allergens orally to build up their resistance.
It’s called sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT), and it involves placing smaller amounts of food allergens under the tongue.
A study conducted by UBC clinical professor and pediatric allergist Dr. Edmond Chan and his team at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute found SLIT to be as safe and effective for high-risk older children and adolescents as oral immunotherapy is for preschoolers.
Feb 29, 2024
NASA’s new balloon-borne telescope was designed with AI
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
NASA is using an AI-powered technique called “generative design” to dramatically speed up the process of designing hardware for upcoming missions — and one of the first AI-designed missions will use a massive balloon to lift a telescope to the stratosphere.
The need: Weight is one of the most important considerations when NASA engineers are designing parts for new spacecraft — the heavier the final object is, the more fuel will be needed to launch it, and the more expensive the mission will be.
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Feb 29, 2024
Man Running AI-Powered Porn Site Horrified by What Users Are Asking For
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Steven Jones, who runs an AI-generated porn images website, is shocked by what users want the AI to spit out.
Feb 29, 2024
Bill Gates isn’t too scared about AI
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: education, employment, robotics/AI
Like Gates, Leslie doesn’t dismiss doomer scenarios outright. “Bad actors can take advantage of these technologies and cause catastrophic harms,” he says. “You don’t need to buy into superintelligence, apocalyptic robots, or AGI speculation to understand that.”
“But I agree that our immediate concerns should be in addressing the existing risks that derive from the rapid commercialization of generative AI,” says Leslie. “It serves a positive purpose to sort of zoom our lens in and say, ‘Okay, well, what are the immediate concerns?’”
In his post, Gates notes that AI is already a threat in many fundamental areas of society, from elections to education to employment. Of course, such concerns aren’t news. What Gates wants to tell us is that although these threats are serious, we’ve got this: “The best reason to believe that we can manage the risks is that we have done it before.”
Feb 28, 2024
Radio waves can tune up bacteria to become life-saving medicines
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: biotech/medical
Scientists from Australia and the United States have found a new way to alter the DNA of bacterial cells to create new medicines.
Feb 28, 2024
Meta plans launch of new AI language model Llama 3 in July, The Information reports
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: robotics/AI
Meta researchers are trying to “loosen up” the model so that it could at least provide context to a query it deems controversial.
Meta Platforms is planning to release the newest version of its artificial-intelligence large language model Llama 3 in July which would give better responses to contentious questions posed by users, The Information reported on Wednesday.
Feb 28, 2024
Disentangled 3D Scene Generation with Layout Learning
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
TL;DR: Text-to-3D generation of scenes decomposed automatically into objects, using only a pretrained diffusion model.
TL;DR: Text-to-3D generation of scenes that are decomposed automatically into objects.
Feb 28, 2024
Human AI clones will be ‘pivotal moment of evolution’, Living Nostradamus warns
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
EXCLUSIVE: The Brazilian bloke dubbed Living Nostradamus is back with more bold claims about artificial intelligence and has claimed that recent advancements have come at a very specific moment.
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Feb 28, 2024
The New York Times allegedly paid someone to “hack” OpenAI’s models via prompting
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: law, robotics/AI
OpenAI is accusing the New York Times of “hacking” its products in the ongoing copyright dispute.
In a legal filing, OpenAI claims that an individual paid by the Times used “deceptive prompts” to create copies of NYT articles. These prompts would violate OpenAI’s terms of service.
The NYT demonstrated that OpenAI’s GPT models could generate copies of NYT articles when it filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement.