On 22 May, a fake photo created by an artificial intelligence (AI) showing an explosion at the Pentagon was posted on Twitter. The image immediately went viral.
Tag: jun 27 2023
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CHATBOT AS BIOTERRORIST
Bioscientist Kevin Esvelt at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked students to use Chat GPT, Google’s Bard, or any similar “large language model” AI to find a virus capable of launching a global pandemic and help them gather the elements needed to manufacture it.
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WHAT’S AI WORTH? $4.4 TRILLION A YEAR, McKINSEY SAYS
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligences (AI) will add as much as $4.4 trillion a year to the global economy, according to a new study from the McKinsey Global Institute.
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HAVE DIABETES? EAT YOUR INSULIN
Borrowing a technique from plants, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s dental school have infused lettuce with the three proteins that make up insulin, the drug that controls symptoms of diabetes.
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SOLAR REACTOR CONVERTS PLASTIC TRASH, CARBON FROM AIR INTO FUEL
At the University of Cambridge, researchers have created a solar-powered reactor that can turn carbon pulled from the air into “syngas” or synthetic gas, a hydrocarbon that can be used as a fuel or chemical feedstock in a variety of manufacturing processes.
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NEW HYDROGEL DISTILLS WATER FROM AIR
The world is running short of clean water at a time when the global population is growing.
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MORE REASONS TO QUIT USING ANY ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned people not to consume aspartame (Equal), sucralose (Splenda) or other artificial sweeteners for weight control.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
In identifying, analyzing and forecasting trends, it is essential to understand that all things are connected. As Chief Seattle said in 1855, “All things are connected, like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: INVESTORS BACK AWAY FROM DOWNTOWN PROJECTS
Remote workers have moved out of city centers. Now investors are following them.
Real estate trusts focused on investment in downtown areas are trading at less than half their pre-COVID levels, The Wall Street Journal reported. Lenders are demanding extra interest to make loans against office buildings; bonds to support New York City’s bus and subway system have a hard time finding buyers.
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IS AMAZON LOOKING TO CANCEL HUMAN AUTHORS?
Is Amazon looking to dominate the bookselling space even more than it does already, by deploying AI to generate fiction and nonfiction content?