The National Eating Disorder Association fired all six people staffing its phone-in help line and told the line’s 200 volunteers not to come back because everyone was being replaced by Tessa, a chatbot that would guide callers to sources of help.
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BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TIPTOES INTO AI
The first thing John Brownstein, Boston Children’s Hospital’s Chief Innovation Officer wants everyone to know is that artificial intelligence (AI) is not replacing any staff members.
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AI FINDS A DRUG TO KILL A DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIUM
One of every 31 Americans who enters a hospital will pick up an infection while there. That comes to about 1.7 million infections each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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AI PIONEER CALLS RUSH TO USE AI ‘A DANGER’ RISKING ‘EXTINCTION’
The current headlong rush to use AI across industries and applications is “unhealthy” and could pose a “danger to political systems, to democracy, to the very nature of truth,” Yoshua Bengio told Canada’s C2 International business conference on 24 May.
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FOXCONN SAYS ITS SERVER BUSINESS WILL DOUBLE IN NEXT SIX MONTHS
Thanks to the world’s rush to artificial intelligence (AI), Foxconn—the world’s largest assembler of electronic equipment—says it will ship twice as many servers in the second half of this year than it did in the first.
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AMAZON TAPS AI TO SPOT DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS BEFORE THEY SHIP
Always eager to automate any task, Amazon is now using AI to catch defective products before they’re sent to customers.
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HOW CHATGPT COULD TRANSFORM EDUCATION
The Financial Times tells the story of a 17-year-old Australian high-school student who was bored by his textbooks. He grafted a set of simple instructions that told ChatGPT-4 to teach him the concepts and skills he needed to master to pass his exams.
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NVIDIA CEO HAILS ‘TIPPING POINT OF NEW COMPUTING ERA’
“We have reached the tipping point of a new computing era” in which “everyone is a programmer,” Jensen Huang, CEO of chip maker Nvidia, said in a speech last week at the Computex tech conference in Taiwan.
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NEW MOLECULE REGENERATES NERVES, HEART TISSUE AFTER INJURY
Re-establishing nerve pathways after damage is one of medicine’s toughest problems. A related one is dealing with dead heart tissue that clings to the heart after a heart attack and can cause other cardiac problems even years later.
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COAL’S NEW ROLE IN A GREEN ENERGY ECONOMY: A HYDROGEN ‘BATTERY’
Among green energy advocates, coal is reviled as the dirtiest and smoggiest of fuels.
