Forget a Dating Profile, This App Says It Just Needs Your Face
By Julie Jargon Sept. 30, 2023 Can artificial intelligence find your perfect romantic match—just by examining your face? SciMatch thinks it can. The dating app runs photos of users’ faces through its algorithm to determine their personality traits, such as outgoing, neurotic or conscientious. It then recommends potential mates who have compatible characteristics. […]
AI Accelerates Ability to Program Biology Like Software
By Steven Rosenbush Sept. 19, 2023 Artificial intelligence is turbocharging the frontiers of biological research, helping scientists program living organisms much as a software engineer might write code. Some scientists are even creating new proteins not found in nature. The field, known as synthetic biology, is breaking down barriers in medical science and […]
The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release
By New York Times Published September 09, 2023 Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things. Read More
US air force denies running simulation in which AI drone ‘killed’ operator
By Guardian staff Published on 2 Jun 2023 The US air force has denied it has conducted an AI simulation in which a drone decided to “kill” its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission. An official said last month that in a virtual test staged by […]
Black men were likely underdiagnosed with lung problems because of bias in software, study suggests
BY MIKE STOBBE Published June 2, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — Racial bias built into a common medical test for lung function is likely leading to fewer Black patients getting care for breathing problems, a study published Thursday suggests. As many as 40% more Black male patients in the study might have been […]
1st babies born in Britain using DNA from 3 people
BY MARIA CHENG Published May 11, 2023 LONDON (AP) — Britain’s fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births of the U.K.’s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said fewer than […]
Future of Work Roundtable Highlights
On March 29th, Creating Future Us hosted an investor roundtable with top global experts on the topic of the Future of Work. During this two-hour roundtable, we explored many of the key drivers of impacts from automation on the flow of work and workers. It was a landscape overview of key changes that are […]
AI makes non-invasive mind-reading possible by turning thoughts into text
Hannah Devlin 1 May 2023 An AI-based decoder that can translate brain activity into a continuous stream of text has been developed, in a breakthrough that allows a person’s thoughts to be read non-invasively for the first time. The decoder could reconstruct speech with uncanny accuracy while people listened to a story – […]
RESEARCHERS LET 25 AI BOTS LOOSE INSIDE A VIRTUAL TOWN. THE RESULTS WERE FASCINATING.
By VICTOR TANGERMANN April 13, 2023 A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google let 25 AI-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than you might expect. As detailed in a recent, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, the researchers trained 25 different “generative agents,” using OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 […]