Maybe I’m paranoid, but why does my mind straight away go to all the nefarious ways this could be used. Creative criminals and intelligence agencies could find many uses for this technology when it matures.
They are made from a biological substrate with metal magnetic components. It means they are highly controllable in water tanks via magnetic fields. They won’t be out in the wild.
HOW TO PUT A DATA CENTER IN A SHOEBOX - Imec’s plan to use superconductors to shrink computers. ( spectrum.ieee.org )
Med-Gemini has bested GPT-4, achieving an exceptional 91.1% accuracy in medical diagnostics. ( newatlas.com )
DeepMind is experimenting with a nearly indestructible robot hand ( www.newscientist.com )
Marriage of synthetic biology and 3D printing produces programmable living materials ( phys.org )
Science is closing in on the frailties of old age: Research is finding way to extend animal lifespans but regulators are still wary of treating ageing as a disease. ( archive.ph )
Some US politicians are moving to ban lab grown meat. ( www.semafor.com )
Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance. ( www.livescience.com )
With AI-designed proteins on the horizon, concerns about their possible weaponization have surfaced. Researchers are emphasizing the importance of safety guidelines to govern the ethical use of these ( www.nature.com )
Trust in AI is declining across the world. ( thehill.com )
Google launches Claude 3 and says its more powerful than GPT-4. ( www.cnbc.com )
What’s next for robotaxis in 2024 - In addition to restoring public trust, robotaxi companies need to prove that their business models can compete with Uber and taxis. ( www.technologyreview.com )
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI- Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content ( www.theintrinsicperspective.com )
Adobe previews ‘Photoshop of music’ - new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio. ( blog.adobe.com )
Can new legislation protect us from the companies building tech to read our minds? ( www.vox.com )
Experts call for new economic modeling to meet energy transition ambition. Policymakers navigating the energy transition has surpassed the capacity of existing economic modeling for the first time. ( techxplore.com )
The EU’s tough new moderation rules are about to cover a lot more of the internet. ( www.theverge.com )
The integration of generative AI directly into word processors will give rise to a new, acceptable form of synthesized AI-human writing and universities are not prepared. ( generativehistory.substack.com )
Austrian researchers combine 3D printing with stem cells to create cartilage tissue. ( phys.org )
So, you have a chip in your brain. Now what? ( www.humanityredefined.com )
Sam Altman’s Prediction: The Rise of a Billion-Dollar Solo Enterprise ( thereach.ai )
Food delivery robot crashes into car, flees scene of accident ( yle.fi )
New research suggests current LLM AIs are not showing emergent capabilities, and evidence they are may just be an artifact of the metrics by which they are measured. ( openreview.net )
eSoil: A low-power bioelectronic growth scaffold that enhances crop seedling growth ( www.pnas.org )
AI scientists make ‘exciting’ discovery using chatbots to solve maths problems - Breakthrough suggests technology behind ChatGPT and Bard can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge ( www.theguardian.com )
Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing—Even in the Human Body: For the first time, researchers have used sound waves to 3-D print an object from a distance—even with a wall in the way. ( www.scientificamerican.com )
AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition: A biocomputing system consisting of living brain cells learned to recognize the voice of one individual from hundreds of sound clips. ( www.newscientist.com )
CRISPR 2.0: a new wave of gene editors heads for clinical trials. ( www.nature.com )
Why scientists are making transparent wood - Stronger than plastic and tougher than glass, the resin-filled material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows and more. ( knowablemagazine.org )
How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made. AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear. ( www.technologyreview.com )
Biohybrid microrobots could remove micro- and nano-plastics from aquatic environments ( phys.org )
Swiss Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies, says Waymo's self-driving cars are already safer than human driven cars. ( www.swissre.com )
A new type of AI model that can beat humans at all types of games, not just individual ones, may be a step towards AGI. ( www.newscientist.com )
DeepMind have outlined a 5-Level framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) models and their precursors ( arxiv.org )
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AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather. ( www.businessinsider.com )
New research says Big Tech is only paying lip service to AI safety issues. ( analyticsindiamag.com )
Atom Computing says its quantum computer is the first to have more than 1000 qubits, and its unique approach can scale to tens of thousands of qubits. ( www.newscientist.com )
An AI neural net has human-like ability to generalize language A neural-network-based AI outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence ( www.nature.com )
‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization ( archive.ph )
OpenAI has revised its core values to make the focus on developing AGI its first priority. ( www.semafor.com )
A new discovery about anti-matter has ruled out one of the few feasible ways a warp drive might be created. ( bigthink.com )
Japanese company developing drug to grow new teeth, plans for clinical trials on humans in 2024. ( www.abc.net.au )
Although we are getting closer to Artificial Superintelligence, no one has yet figured out a framework to evaluate its risks. ( michaelnotebook.com )
Nearly half of CEOs believe AI could replace their own jobs, says new poll—and 47% say it's a good thing ( www.cnbc.com )
75% of businesses are implementing or considering bans on ChatGPT ( www.zdnet.com )