HHS (Health and Human Services) Director Robert F Kennedy Jr. this past week cut off 500 million in public funding earmarked for mRNA medical treatments and technology.
Tag: technology
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SYNTHETIC DEVOLUTION: NPR TRIES TO REHABILITATE HE JIANKUI AND GENE-EDITING BABIES
Yes, the science world (though unfortunately not enough of the general populace) professed to be shocked and horrified in 2018, when a Chinese scientist declared he had successfully gene edited twin babies.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: SAM ALTMAN PREPS FOR SYNBIO DISASTER, MIND-VASION GETS SLEEKER, AND SOME RESIST AI EDUCATION TAKEOVER
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says a technology related fear is keeping him up at night.
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TWILIGHT OF THE HUMANITIES
A recent PC Gamer article pondered the antihuman underpinnings of top tech CEOs. The piece critiqued the drive of CEOs like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to continue to transform curriculums to more heavily focus on science and technology.
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TRUMP AI ACTION PLAN UNLEASHES AMERICAN AI INNOVATION, FOR BETTER AND WORSE
The clear object of a new AI action plan articulated as an overall framework this past week by the Trump administration, is to win what we have long termed in these pages “The AI Ams Race.”
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: MAJOR JOURNAL WONDERS WHETHER AI IS GAINING CONSCIOUSNESS
Uh-oh, cue up the “ethics” of what rights to accord “conscious AI.” Or at least, that’s something Scientific American magazine chose to focus on, in a recent article covering at least one advanced AI’s declaration that it might be gaining consciousness.
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THE ART AND ARTIFICE OF PROMPT ENGINEERING
Why do generative AI chatbots need to be prompted to impersonate fantasy roles in order to provide (supposedly) better content, or answers to queries?
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CRYPTO INNOVATION IS THE PRIZE
Crypto technology represents real innovation compared to current legacy financial—and other institutions and organizational structures.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI REPLACISM, AI OPTIMISM…AND ELON
A new Bank of America report on how quantum computing technology will likely transform sectors and create investment opportunities over the next decade drew a connection between quantum advances and AI development.
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AS FORECAST: ENERGY REALISM AT GM, AND AI CONTINUES TO KILL CLIMATE CHANGE STAR
Electricity demand, water for cooling…turns out, you can’t have an AI Arms Race without consuming a lot of resources that not so long ago would’ve been widely lambasted as fueling existential “climate crisis.”