Scientists announce rough draft of human pangenome.
NBC News reports: "The development — a landmark in genomics — magnifies and expands scientists’ view of the code that makes us both uniquely human and different from one another."
The first U.K. baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure that aims to prevent children from inheriting incurable diseases.
"By wrongly attributing humanlike #consciousness to #artificial systems, we’ll make unjustified assumptions about how they might behave... we might put more trust in it than we should. If we feel a #machine truly believes what it says, we might be more inclined to take its views more seriously. If we expect an #AI system to behave as a #conscious#human would—according to its apparent goals, desires, and beliefs—we may catastrophically fail to predict what it might do"
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💁🏻♀️ It's my turn to make my #introduction: I’m Mélina Cordeau, PhD student in #neuroscience at Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone in #Marseille. 🙉 My PhD project is centered on the #voice#perception in #human and #macaque. I use #MRI : anatomical, functional and diffusion data, to understand the structure-function relationship involved in voice processing in primates brain.
🧠 I am interested in the #anatomy of the #brain, and more generally in its #evolution in different #species.
🥂 I also have a strong taste for #communication and science #vulgarization. I enjoy #social events and I like to organize #events for scientists. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗻!