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Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Friday said that artificial general intelligence could - by some definitions - arrive in as little as five years.Huang, who heads the world's leading maker of artificial intelligence chips used to create systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT, was responding to a question at an economic forum held at Stanford University about how long it would take to achieve one of Silicon Valley's long-held goals of creating computers that can think like humans. Huang said that the answer largely depends…

Alibaba unveils EMO AI tool that converts photos to lifelike talking, singing videos; Leonardo CEO highlights concerns over human 'Stupidity' in AI use; Kara Swisher unveils new book on AI generated scams amidst global concerns; Meta's resistance and the rising AI threat: Challenges to journalism in Australia- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. Alibaba unveils EMO: AI converts photos to lifelike talking, singing videosChina's Alibaba introduces "EMO," an AI tool from its Institute for Intelligent…

Scientists have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain, revealing just how much we still have to learn about its mysterious inner workings.Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain's outer cortical cells that produces a novel 'graded' signal all on its own, one that could provide individual neurons with another way to…

Researchers at the Tata Institute in Mumbai announced the development of a novel drug aimed at preventing cancer…

By Michael Haederle, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center February 27, 2024Researchers at the University of New Mexico have discovered microplastics in all tested human placenta samples, revealing a concerning presence of these particles in the human body.Microplastics detected in all examined human placentas point to significant environmental contamination and health risks, with future research needed to understand the full implications.A flurry of recent studies has found that microplastics are present in…

The IM-1 Moon landing mission will come to a premature end on Tuesday morning. Intuitive Machines has announced that the Odysseus lander will no longer be able to charge its batteries by February 27 as sunlight stops falling on its solar panels.Today's announcement is a bittersweet end for a mission that survived tipping over on landing and the failure of a vital navigation system due to human error. When 'Odie' touched down on the Moon on February 22, it did so with the aid of a NASA experimental navigation system that…

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT can create content, but it doesn’t always sound natural. The content can come across as dull or robotic without the right guidance. Fortunately, there are techniques you can use to make AI-written text more human-like, engaging and fun to read. This article will explore ways to get more life-like, conversational content from AI. Specifically, we’ll look at how to customize the prompts you give ChatGPT so it better understands the tone, emotion and audience you want to target.…

What Deckelmann means by “sustainability” is a pressing concern in the open-source space more broadly. When complex services or entire platforms like Wikipedia depend on the time and labor of volunteers, contributors may not get the support they need to keep going—and keep those projects afloat. Building sustainable pathways for the people who make the internet has been Deckelmann’s personal passion for years. In addition to working as an engineering and product leader at places like Intel and Mozilla and contributing to…

Even small doses of LSD could have therapeutic benefits for mental health and task performance, a new study shows.Researchers from the US and Germany gave 21 adults either a placebo or 13 or 26 micrograms of LSD – small doses that rarely lead to hallucinatory effects.It was found that 26 micrograms of the psychoactive compound increased brain complexity by about 12 percent compared to a placebo, without altering consciousness. Neural complexity is a measure of unique brain signals, usually correlating with consciousness…

It's been over three years since scientists first found microplastics swimming in four different human placentas, and as it turns out, that was just the tip of the iceberg.A few years later, at the start of 2023, researchers announced they had found microscopic particles of plastic waste in no fewer than 17 different placentas. By the end of 2023, a local study in Hawai'i analyzed 30 placentas that were donated between 2006 and 2021 only to find plastic contamination had increased significantly over time.Using a new…