A growing number of Americans—especially Republicans—are concerned about how their ballots will be counted after they cast their vote during the 2024 presidential election, according to a newly released poll.
Category: 9 January 2024
WALL STREET TO AI: SHOW ME THE MONEY
Tech companies from start-ups to the Fortune 500 are pouring money into AI, building data centers, investing thousands of hours in creating and training new platforms, and keeping the buzz alive.
ELLIQ THE AI IS SENIORS’ NEW BUDDY
Older adults are making fast friends with ElliQ, a new Alexa-like tabletop AI created by Israel-based Intuition Robotics to relieve loneliness among seniors.
NEW YORK TIMES IS LATEST PUBLISHER TO SUE AI DEVELOPERS
On 27 December, The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, alleging the companies infringed the newspaper’s copyrights in using NYT articles to train ChatGPT without credit, compensation, or permission to the paper.
AI SCORES TWO MORE MEDICAL ADVANCES
Artificial intelligence closed 2023 with two more medical advances to its credit.
NEW AI CAN PREDICT PEOPLE’S LIFE EVENTS
By analyzing detailed data on people’s health and work lives, an AI developed by an international team based at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been able to predict major life events and even make a pretty accurate guess about whether a person will die within four years, the developers reported in a recent paper in Nature Computational Science.
FIRST COMPUTER THAT SIMULATES THE ENTIRE HUMAN BRAIN DUE THIS YEAR
Technicians at Australia’s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems are putting the finishing touches on DeepSouth, the first supercomputer engineered to mimic an entire, functioning human brain. They expect to be ready to turn it on in April.
U.S. CARRIES OUT STRIKE ON MILITIA LEADER IN IRAQ
The U.S. military carried out an assassination of what it identified as an Iraqi militia leader behind the attacks on uninvited American forces in the country—raising new fears of a wider Middle East conflict as Israel carries out genocide in Gaza.
DEATH COMES FOR THE BRAIN IN WAVES
After recording animals’ brain activity as they died, researchers at the Paris Brain Institute were able, for the first time, to describe in detail the sequence of events that ends the brain’s life.
WASHINGTON HAS RESURRECTED THE SPECTER OF NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON
The U.S. and Israel have isolated themselves as the two most evil governments on earth. By complying with Washington’s foreign policy, the European puppet governments find themselves despised by their citizens.