For the sake of convenience, and marching along the siren song of technological progress, are we damaging our health, and our humanity?
Category: 15 August 2023
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HEDERA POWERED SOCIAL MARKETPLACE APP CALAXY LAUNCHES
Calaxy, a social media platform which facilitates direct interactions and payments between social media creatives and audiences, made its official launch last week.
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AI WILL REINVENT THE COMPUTER, NVIDIA CEO SAYS
Conventional computer platforms are being outmoded and replaced by AI platforms, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the company that leads the AI chip market, told a computer graphics conference earlier this month.
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AUTHOR USES AI TO GENERATE 97 E-BOOKS IN NINE MONTHS
Science fiction writer Tim Boucher says that ChatGPT and other AIs have enabled him to create and illustrate 97 “mini-novels” in nine months.
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AI: THE CHIPS ARE DOWN
The boom in AI has caused the same problem that the clamor for electronics did during the COVID War: there aren’t enough computer chips to meet the demand.
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AI IS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR CALL CENTER WORKERS
“I always had a question in the back of my mind,” Ylonda Sherrod told The New York Times. “Will I be jobless? Am I training my replacement?”
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CAN CHATGPT BE YOUR NEW INVESTMENT COUNSELOR?
ChatGPT returned almost 10 percent in a month after telling BTCNews, a crypto website, how to invest $20,000. Following the chatbot’s guidance, the news site pocketed a gross return of $1,946 in barely four weeks.
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AI’S IMPACT WILL BEGIN TO BE FELT AFTER 2025, GOLDMAN STUDY SAYS
Generative AI could boost global productivity by 1 percent a year for the 10 years after the technology is widespread in the world’s economy, a period that will begin in the last half of this decade, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs Economic Research.
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TINY BIOCHIPS COULD SCAN FOR THOUSANDS OF ILLNESSES IN MINUTES
Using light to diagnose the presence of viruses or other invaders in the body isn’t new. Typically, the tests use a probe molecule that locks onto a gene known to belong to the villain. The combination of the two changes the frequency of light emitted by the target, and the change can be seen and quantified by an optical microscope.
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SCIENTISTS PRODUCE RETINAL CELLS THAT COULD HELP HUMANS REGAIN THEIR VISION
Macular degeneration, a major cause of blindness on the rise in developed nations, occurs when retinal cells die in the central area of the retinal field, leaving sufferers with a black hole in the center of their vision.