For almost two decades, scientists have been experimenting with “Yamanaka factors,” special molecules that convert adult cells into stem cells—cells that can be nudged to become any of a range of different kinds of cells.
Category: 25 July 2023
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GOOGLE PITCHES “GENESIS” TO PUBLISHERS, AS HUMAN CREATIVES REBEL AGAINST TECH COMPANY CONTENT HIJACKING
Google wants journalists to have their own specialized AI assistant.
It’s called Genesis.
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YO HABLO CHATBOT
Racing to claim a larger share of the global AI market, Google has released a version of its Bard AI that can chat with you in 43 languages as well as English.
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UH-OH: CLAUDE AI GOES OFF THE WOKE GUARDRAILS, AS ANTHROPIC SIGNS ON TO BIDEN “GOV AI” TAKEOVER
What’s an aspiring AI company that’s trying to go along to get along, going to do when it finds that its AI is committing “dangerous” and “harmful” acts, as defined by government ideologues?
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SEVEN MAJOR TECH COMPANIES SIGN ONTO “GOVERNMENT AI”
This past week, seven major AI focused tech companies agreed to abide by and work with the Biden Administration’s AI guidance policies.
It made the announcement via a 21 July “FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI.”
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AI DEVELOPERS URGE REGULATIONS PROTECTING “MENTAL PRIVACY”
At a 13 July conference, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched an effort to frame a set of ethical standards around “neurotech,” the use of computers to connect with and analyze the human mind.
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META READIES OPEN-SOURCE CHATBOT
Meta Platforms is preparing to release LLaMA, its no-charge large language model AI to compete with ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
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AI: TEACHERS’ NEW BEST FRIEND
Schools may have doubts about students using AI in their schoolwork, but teachers have made chatbots their new classroom utility players.
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GOOGLE READIES CHATBOT TO ANSWER YOUR MEDICAL QUESTIONS
Google is testing Med-PaLM2, its chatbot that will be able to answer common medical questions.
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HUMAN CREATORS DEMAND PAYMENT FROM AI DEVELOPERS
Major AIs – ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Stable Diffusion, image creator Dall-E, and others—learned by ransacking the Internet and internalizing its contents. Now it uses that content to create original essays, news stories, pictures, and other works.