SearchGPT is in a prototype stage with limited access, but its features and data will be integrated with ChatGPT in the future.
Read the full article at: www.pcworld.com
Saving Modernist Houses with the Help of the Internet Archive
George Smart is on a mission to save mid-century modern houses. He believes the structures are works of art that people should respect—if they only realized their significance and knew how to preserve them.
Read the full article at: blog.archive.org
AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
The military use of AI-enabled weapons is growing, and the industry that provides them is booming
Read the full article at: www.theguardian.com
Study finds animal empathy differs among men
James Cook University researchers investigating men’s empathy towards animals have found higher levels in men who own pets versus farmers and non-pet owners. The study is published in Animal Welfare.
Dr. Jessica Oliva is a senior lecturer in psychology at JCU. She said it was well established that women felt more animal empathy (AE) than men.
Read the full article at: www.msn.com
AI And The Music Industry: Why AI Is Not The New Napster
From the advent of the player piano until modern-day streaming, new technologies have regularly disrupted and transformed the music industry.
From the advent of the player piano until modern-day streaming, new technologies have regularly disrupted and transformed the music industry.
Now, AI has the potential to transform once again how music is made and consumed. Many observers are watching the industry’s response and questioning whether we see a redux of the Napster saga from the late 1990s and early 2000s. I believe the industry’s (and our society’s) reaction to AI is markedly different from the Napster years, as we all learn some lessons from the past.
Read the full article at: www.forbes.com
In situ targeted base editing of bacteria in the mouse gut – Nature
Microbiome research is now demonstrating a growing number of bacterial strains and genes that affect our health1. Although CRISPR-derived tools have shown great success in editing disease-driving genes in human cells2, we currently lack the tools to achieve comparable success for bacterial targets in situ. Here we engineer a phage-derived particle to deliver a base editor and modify Escherichia coli colonizing the mouse gut. Editing of a β-lactamase gene in a model E. coli strain resulted in a median editing efficiency of 93% of the target bacterial population with a single dose. Edited bacteria were stably maintained in the mouse gut for at least 42 days following treatment. This was achieved using a non-replicative DNA vector, preventing maintenance and dissemination of the payload. We then leveraged this approach to edit several genes of therapeutic relevance in E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in vitro and demonstrate in situ editing of a gene involved in the production of curli in a pathogenic E. coli strain. Our work demonstrates the feasibility of modifying bacteria directly in the gut, offering a new avenue to investigate the function of bacterial genes and opening the door to the design of new microbiome-targeted therapies. Edited bacteria were stably maintained in mouse gut for at least 42 days following the delivery of a base editor using an engineered phage-derived particle to modify Escherichia coli colonizing the gut.
Read the full article at: www.nature.com
Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence
OpenAI has come up with a set of five levels to track its progress toward building artificial intelligence software capable of outperforming humans, the startup’s latest effort to help people better understand its thinking about safety and the future of AI.
Read the full article at: www.bloomberg.com
Disability community has long wrestled with ‘helpful’ technologies – lessons for everyone in dealing with AI
Disabled people are experts in using – and designing – assistive technologies. They have lessons to offer everyone about keeping control when help is offered.
You might have heard that artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize everything, save the world and give everyone superhuman powers. Alternatively, you might have heard that it will take your job, make you lazy and stupid, and make the world a cyberpunk dystopia.
Consider another way to look at AI: as an assistive technology – something that helps you function.
Read the full article at: theconversation.com
“Demand the changes we need” – Art to the Polls enlists creatives’ help to get young people voting
A group of artists including Anthony Burrill, Anish Kapoor, Joy Yamusangie and Jon Burgerman have donated artworks to the project, prompting people to vote in tomorrow’s UK general election.
Read the full article at: www.itsnicethat.com
What is ‘AI washing’ and why is it a problem?
Amazon received critical headlines this year when reports questioned the “Just Walk Out” technology installed at many of its physical grocery stores.
The AI-powered system enables customers at many of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go shops to simply pick their items, and then leave.
The AI uses lots of sensors to work out what you have chosen. You then get automatically billed.
However, back in April it was widely reported that rather than solely using AI, Just Walk Out needed around 1,000 workers in India to manually check almost three quarters of the transactions.
Amazon was quick to claim that the reports were “erroneous”, and that staff in India were not reviewing video footage from all the shops.
Instead it said that the Indian workers were simply reviewing the system. Amazon added that “this is no different than any other AI system that places a high value on accuracy, where human reviewers are common”.
Read the full article at: www.bbc.com