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⚙️ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to ... AI

AI for Good: Hurricane prediction  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } With Hurricane Milton hitting Florida today, I thought it would make sense to take a look at the work that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has done in hurricane modeling and prediction.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } While the models that NOAA used to predict Milton’s path — and the far-reaching intensity of the storm — are traditional, physics-based models, resea...

OpenAI’s long, costly road to profitability

MBZUAI Research: Memes and multilingual persuasion attemptsSource: Created with AI by The Deep View p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Memes, that wonderful hallmark of modern internet culture, are usually funny, or at least they try to be. But, increasingly, researchers have been noticing a darker side to memes: they can be weaponized to spread misinformation.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Since their ingrained format is light on context and heavy on humor,...

⚙️ Tesla stock plummets following robotaxi unveil

AI for Good: Search and rescue p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } As we’re about to get into in quite a bit of detail, generative artificial intelligence is really good at pattern recognition. This capability makes current generative algorithms — when combined with drones — a natural tool in the arsenal of wilderness search and rescue teams.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: Earlier this year, a team of researchers at Scotland’s University of Glasgo...

⚙️ Nvidia is on the brink of becoming the world’s most valuable company

AI for Good: Wildfire mitigation p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Wildfires have been steadily worsening for years. Certain applications of generative AI are increasingly being explored as a potential aid to human firefighters.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The intention is in highly accurate early warning systems that enable first responders to mitigate before things get out of control. Lockheed Martin is developing a series of firefighting A...

⚙️ Google goes nuclear

MBZUAI Research: Evaluating safeguards in LLMsSource: Created with AI by The Deep View p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The jump from the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) to their deployment has proven to be ethically fraught.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } LLMs are known for their propensity to display a range of biases, reproduce copyrighted content and manipulate people. Such models have the capacity to aid cyber criminals and other bad actors...

⚙️ OpenAI's bargaining chip

MBZUAI Research: LLMs and fake news detectionSource: Created with AI by The Deep View p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The plague of misleading or otherwise fake news far predates Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. But the advent of generative AI makes detecting instances of fake news a little bit more complicated.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Past research has framed the problem around automation; generally, automated news was fake news. Gen...

⚙️ Britain is chasing AI gold

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. I watched Avengers: Age of Ultron last night on a whim, and I have to say, it encapsulates a lot of current X-Risk discourse quite well: a suddenly sentient AI, out of our control, that begins to self-replicate as it burns through the world and internet, intent on humanity’s destruction as the only way to accomplish its peaceful programming. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But Ultron was unachievable without a sup...

⚙️ Competition and power consolidation in AI

AI for Good: Maritime crimes  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Overfishing has been a known problem for decades, now. But since it occurs in the middle of the ocean — alongside any other maritime crime imaginable — observation of illegal fishing or illegal maritime activity is nearly impossible, which makes enforcement nearly impossible, which allows the problem to continue.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: A startup founded in 2021 — the Nautica...

⚙️ Report: Europeans would let an AI vote for them

AI for Good: Underwater robotsSource: Minnesota Interactive Robotics and Vision Laboratory p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } While artificial intelligence is good for parsing vast quantities of data, it needs a way to access that data. And when it comes to oceanic research and marine conservation, there is a vast, unexplored sea of data, information and observations waiting to be gathered.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: Researchers at the Minn...

⚙️ GE HealthCare unveils AI for cancer care

AI for Good: Understanding planktonSource: NASA’s Earth Observatory p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Plankton — a diverse array of oceanic organisms ranging from simply small to microscopic — make up a vital element of our global ecosystem.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Highly efficient at photosynthesis, carbon storage, carbon sequestration and oxygen production, the tiny plants and animals are the reason that the oceans have been able to absorb roughly 4...

⚙️ Character AI sued following teen suicide

MBZUAI Research: Framing, persuasion and propagandaSource: Created with AI by The Deep View p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } While the Internet and social media have made the news more accessible than ever, they have also opened up far more opportunities for the consumption of false or misleading information.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } This reality has resulted in a number of programs — NewsGuard, Politifact and Snopes, for instance — to help people der...

⚙️ Former OpenAI researcher says the ‘world is not ready’ for AGI

AI for Good: Ocean cleanupSource: The Ocean Cleanup p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Our oceans have a plastic problem. As of 2023, scientists estimated that there were more than 171 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the oceans, a reality that is harming ecosystems, marine life and humans.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } These pieces of plastic will continue to break down into smaller pieces — which are harder to remove — unless they are manually cleare...

⚙️ I downloaded Character AI. It’s profoundly disturbing

MBZUAI Research: Applying AI to antimicrobial resistanceSource: Created with AI by The Deep View p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Antimicrobials — an umbrella categorization that includes antibiotics — refer to medicines used to treat infectious diseases, according to the World Health Organization. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when these diseases, pathogens and viruses no longer respond to the medicine.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The WHO says t...

⚙️ AI healthcare rush needs to slow down: Researchers

AI for Good: Paleo-inspired robotsSource: University of Cambridge p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Paleontologists want to understand how — roughly 390 million years ago — ancestral animals transitioned from swimming to walking. But since there’s a lack of available fossil-based evidence, their understanding of this transition is incomplete.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: A team of Cambridge researchers recently combined computational methods...

⚙️ EPIC calls on FTC to investigate OpenAI

AI for Good: UCLA’s new medical vision model  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently developed a new deep-learning model for the analysis of 3D medical images.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: Unlike other medical imaging models, this model — nicknamed SLIViT, for SLice Integration by Vision Transformer — has a wide range of adaptability. It’s able to process 3D images from optica...

⚙️ ‘AI progress’ drives strong quarters for Meta, Microsoft

AI for Good: Lyme disease detection p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Cases of Lyme disease have been on a steady incline for more than 20 years. But scientists aren’t exactly sure why, and doctors tend to have a tough time both diagnosing and treating Lyme.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } This is partly due to the fact that early-stage symptoms can be similar to a bunch of other diseases, and partly due to the fact that testing for Lyme isn’t a quick or simp...

⚙️ Amazon pops on earnings beat; Apple falls

Sell Smarter & Faster with Pipedrive AI p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } A lot of the value of an AI tool is to save you time. But, with the right tool, it goes far beyond that, positioning and enabling users to understand the intricacies of their performance so they can perform better. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } That combination is especially true when it comes to sales. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Pipedrive was already one of the...

⚙️ Cybersecurity expert: Lots of ‘painful lessons’ ahead

AI for Good: Asteroid (impact) prediction p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } As chaotic as it may be down here on the planet’s surface, there might be a bit more chaos going on up in space.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Specifically, I’m talking about space rocks.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } NASA is tracking more than 35,000 near-Earth asteroids; 864 of these are larger than one kilometer. It’s a lot to keep track of; the space agency...

⚙️ Interview: AIPI director on what comes after SB 1047 veto

AI for Good: Meteor monitoring p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ve talked before about the automated ways in which NASA is keeping itself apprised of potential future asteroid impacts here on Earth; what we haven’t talked about is meteors, whether they’re being tracked and why they should be.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Let’s start with some definitions: asteroids are space rocks — smaller than planets — that float around in orbit. Meteorites refer to...

⚙️ A different kind of legal AI

AI for Good: Space lasers and space junkSource: West Virginia University p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Hard though it may be to believe, the ‘space’ around our planet is quite crowded.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } In orbit around the Earth are tens of thousands of active and inactive satellites and more than 36,000 pieces of general space debris, according to the European Space Agency. And that’s only the junk that the ESA tracks. In total, there are c...
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