AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed (www.bbc.co.uk)
Artificial intelligence hitting labour forces like a "tsunami" - IMF Chief (www.reuters.com)
Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later (newatlas.com)
Warp Drive Breakthrough Could Enable Constant-Velocity Subluminal Travel, Physics Team Says (thedebrief.org)
Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources (www.pcmag.com)
Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi to float on London stock market (www.bbc.co.uk)
HOW TO PUT A DATA CENTER IN A SHOEBOX - Imec’s plan to use superconductors to shrink computers. (spectrum.ieee.org)
OpenAI and Reddit Partnership (openai.com)
Reddit has sold its content to OpenAI
The teens making friends with AI chatbots (www.theverge.com)
How successful are AI-discovered drugs in clinical trials? A first analysis and emerging lessons (www.sciencedirect.com)
AI techniques are making inroads into the field of drug discovery. As a result, a growing number of drugs and vaccines have been discovered using AI. However, questions remain about the success of these molecules in clinical trials. To address these questions, we conducted a first analysis of the clinical pipelines of AI-native...
There are almost 40 different humanoid robots in development, and open-source tech, and makers of specialist components, are making it easier than ever for other people to make them.
It used to be that you needed years and lots of specialist skills to build humanoid robots. Not anymore. Now base models are open-source. Want more complex appendages? Companies like Shadow Robot are making and selling those. Open-source AI is almost as good as closed-source industry leaders. Unitree’s new advanced humanoid...
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief (nationalinterest.org)
Unitree's new G1 humanoid robot is priced at only $16,000, and looks like the type of humanoid robot that could sell in the tens of millions. (newatlas.com)
Astronomers are on the Hunt for Dyson Spheres (www.universetoday.com)
America's population time bomb (www.newsweek.com)
Germany’s robotic stores must rest on Sundays, too (archive.is)
Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest. (techxplore.com)
Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations (www.newscientist.com)
Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes in infrared heat coming from dozens of them. Astronomers say this could be evidence for alien civilisations harnessing energy from their stars by using a vast construction known as a Dyson sphere – although they can’t fully rule out more mundane...
Med-Gemini has bested GPT-4, achieving an exceptional 91.1% accuracy in medical diagnostics. (newatlas.com)
DeepMind is experimenting with a nearly indestructible robot hand (www.newscientist.com)
A group of Chinese companies, including Xiaomi and UBTech, have launched an open-source humanoid robot. (newatlas.com)
AI and demographics: the economic tug of war | Vanguard UK Professional (www.vanguard.co.uk)
Vanguard’s new forecasting framework suggests AI is likely to be the catalyst for a surge in economic growth, surpassing the impact of the personal computer and the internet.
Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial (www.independent.co.uk)
Opal Sandy, aged 18 months, was born completely deaf due to condition auditory neuropathy
