Even as Bitcoin continues to attract investors as a proposition for holding on to value, and (with the help of layer 2 technologies) facilitating payments, some persist in painting cryptocurrencies as “pretend technology.”
Category: 31 October 2023
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AI-MADE IMAGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY COULD FLOOD THE INTERNET, FOUNDATION WARNS
Images of child sexual abuse already are rife on the dark web and the problem could explode now that AI has the power to create deepfake images, the U.K.’s Internet Watch Foundation has warned.
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AI “GUARDRAILS” WEAKER THAN THOUGHT, STUDY FINDS
In developing their artificial intelligence systems, Google, OpenAI, and other creators installed so-called guardrails that would keep their AIs from disseminating hate speech or disinformation and committing similarly unacceptable acts.
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OPEN SOURCE OR CLOSED? THE AI DEBATE HEATS UP.
The Allen Institute for AI is building its own AI as an alternative to that of OpenAI or Google.
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TOP TREND 2023, GOING GREEN LIKE IT OR NOT: HYDROGEN SUPPLY WILL MEET ONLY HALF THE DEMAND BY 2050, MCKINSEY SAYS
By 2050, the demand for hydrogen across the economy will grow fivefold to 600 million tons a year, according to a study by consulting firm McKinsey. However, the supply will amount to somewhere between 175 to 291 metric tons, the study found.
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SYNTHETIC BACTERIA DETECT CANCER IN YOUR BODY
Scientists have created a bacterium that can find cells in the bloodstream that cancer tumors have shed and signal the presence of cancer through a simple lab test.
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MORE AMERICANS FEELING THE FINANCIAL PINCH
Two in three Americans have seen their household expenses climb over the past 12 months, while only one in four says their household income has increased, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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SMELLING A MEMORY
Working with a group of people ages 60 to 85, researchers at the University of California Irvine gave each of them seven vials, each containing a different natural oil, and a diffuser. One group of the adults received cartridges that had tiny amounts of the oils; the other group’s containers were full.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE MARKET OVERVIEW
As we had forecast in July, when the U.S. equity markets were still rising high, they would decline sharply in September and October.
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TIPPING POINT: MARKETS DEPENDENT ON WAR
Today market history is being made, but you would hardly know it when it comes to the stock market.