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Jul 31, 2024

OpenAI board director says general AI to occur ‘within five to 15 years:’ report

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Adam D’Angelo, a board member at Microsoft (MSFT) backed OpenAI, said that general artificial intelligence is likely to occur within five to 15 years. Read for more.

Jul 31, 2024

New Competition Seeks to Unstall AGI Progress

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

ARC Prize offers US $1 million to spur artificial general intelligence research.

Jul 31, 2024

An AI walks into a bar… Can artificial intelligence be genuinely funny?

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

We asked a professional comedian to deliver some jokes written by artificial intelligence on stage. What happened reveals a lot about just how much machines understand the very human sense of humour.

Karen Hobbs was more nervous than usual before this particular gig. A well-known circuit comedian, she’s accustomed to the UK’s often bruising stand-up comedy scene. It’s eclectic, unpredictable and famously short on pity-laughs. Hobbs has tackled some of the most unforgiving rooms in Britain, from major London theatres to the back rooms of rural pubs. She has even triumphed within the dreaded competition circuit, in which a merciless audience votes in a gladiatorial popularity contest for the funniest gags.

But this Thursday night in late June, above the Covent Garden Social Club bar in Central London, Hobbs was about to attempt something totally new. She would take to the stage equipped not with her usual material, but with a stand-up set written for her by the AI platform ChatGPT. Most daunting of all, she would follow three comedians doing their actual, human material.

Jul 31, 2024

Proto Hologram featured on NBC’s WFMJ Channel 21 with Howie Mandel and David Nussbaum

Posted by in categories: holograms, media & arts

Jul 31, 2024

New technique measures superconductivity at very high pressures

Posted by in category: materials

In 1911, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered the first superconductor, metallic mercury when cooled to a critical temperature of 4.2 Kelvin, where it conducts electricity without resistance. Ever since materials scientists have been on a quest to better understand the phenomenon and whether other elements and materials have higher critical temperatures that could make them useful for practical electricity transport, with the holy grail being ambient temperature.

Jul 31, 2024

Physicists use light to probe deeper into the ‘invisible’ energy states of molecules

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, security

A new optical phenomenon has been demonstrated by an international team of scientists led by physicists at the University of Bath, with significant potential impact on pharmaceutical science, security, forensics, environmental science, art conservation and medicine.

Jul 31, 2024

Study identifies protein that affects health of gut microbiota and response to bacterial infection

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Future studies can now be designed to understand the discovery in greater depth and use it to develop treatments. “The essential next step is to investigate the efficacy of IL-22BP inhibitors in animal models and possibly in clinical trials to treat severe intestinal infections,” Fachi said. Another possibility will be to explore how different types and quantities of food fiber affect short-chain fatty acid production. “The composition of gut microbiota in the absence of IL-22BP can provide valuable information,” he added.

Gut microbiota modulation may benefit other intestinal inflammatory conditions, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, as well as infections caused by other pathogens.

“Finding out how IL-22 interacts with other molecules and immune system cells in the absence of IL-22BP will help us better understand its function in intestinal immunity. Future studies could transform our understanding of the role of these proteins in intestinal health and lead to the development of novel therapeutic strategies to prevent and treat intestinal infections,” Vinolo said.

Jul 31, 2024

Biggest Schrödinger’s cat experiment ever

Posted by in category: futurism

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Jul 31, 2024

Dystopian Horror Story “The Tunnel Under The World” | Full Audiobook | Sci-Fi Classic

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Guy Burckhardt finds himself trapped in a perplexing and eerie reality, waking up to the same day, June 15th, over and over again. The world around him seems laced with an uncanny artificiality, and bizarre, aggressive advertisements abound. Desperate to escape this mysterious loop, Guy embarks on a tense journey to uncover the truth, only to stumble upon a shocking revelation about his existence and the world he inhabits. Frederik Pohl’s tale is a labyrinthine enigma, a suspenseful exploration of reality, manipulation, and the clandestine machinations of unseen forces.

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Jul 31, 2024

Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world’s first human procedure

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

Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.

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