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Scientists developed an AI system for predicting human psychosis
A team of European scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck institute recently developed the world's first cybernetic system for predicting psychosis onset in high-risk patients. According to the NIH, about three percent of the general population (data is US-specific) ...
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GPT-3 is the world's most powerful bigotry generator. What should we do about it?
GPT-3 is, arguably, the world's most advanced text generator. It costs billions of dollars to develop, has a massive carbon footprint, and was trained by some of the world's leading AI experts using one of the largest datasets ever curated. And, in spite of all that, it's also inherently ...
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Microsoft partners with GM to make self-driving cars a reality
Driverless car startup Cruise, a GM subsidiary, today announced the finalization of a two-billion dollar equity fund from primary investors Microsoft, Honda, and GM. Leading off: Microsoft's money is the big ticket item here for Cruise. While the company's valuation has skyrocketed ...
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Scientists figured out how to turn black holes into power sources
A group of scientists from Columbia University recently published a paper detailing how humanity could power an off-Earth colony by tapping into one of the universe's largest and most powerful resources: black holes. The big idea here is that a spinning black hole gives off a certain ...
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Stanford team behind BS gaydar AI says facial recognition can expose political orientation
Stanford researcher Michael Kosinski, the PhD behind the infamous “Gaydar” AI, is back with another phrenology-adjacent (his team swears it's not phrenology) bit of pseudo-scientific ridiculousness. This time, they've published a paper indicating that a simple facial recognition ...
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Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms
Everyone's always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vacation would be just to pause the clock for a bit. Who among us couldn't use a five or six month break after 2020 before we commit to an entire new calendar year? It's not you 2021; it's ...
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Trump admin launches National AI Initiative Office
The White House today announced the launch of its National AI Initiative Office, marking what should be President Trump's final manipulation of the country's gutted Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). According to an OSTP press release: The Office is charged with overseeing ...
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The US Army is developing a nightmarish thermal facial recognition system
The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Army's corporate research department, last week published a pre-print paper documenting the development of an image database for training AI to perform ...
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Scientists use supercomputers and AI to determine how good (or deadly) your street drugs are
A team of researchers from the University of Victoria have developed an AI system capable of determining the expected chemical ...
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4 founders explain the biggest hurdles to flattening the climate curve in 2021
While a lot of our career, personal, and travel plans have been put on hold this year, there’s one thing we as a society ...
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Here's what happened in the world of artificial intelligence in 2020
The year 2020 was long and treacherous, but the biggest bright spot for me was the official launch of Neural. That's our ...
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Neural's AI predictions for 2021
It's that time of year again! We're continuing our long-running tradition of publishing a list of predictions from AI experts ...