Leading artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel speaks at Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years—but that’s a good…
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Musk says inactive Twitter accounts being purged
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk on Monday announced that Twitter is canceling accounts that haven’t been used for a long time. The move comes as Musk tries to ramp…
New Antidepressant Reduces Stress and Depression With Low Side Effects
Summary: Scientists developed a potential anti-depressant drug that exhibits anti-stressing and anti-depressant effects with minimal side effects. The drug, KNT-127 quickly acts on the patient without inducing resistance. Researchers found…
Congress eyes new rules for tech: What’s under consideration
A person uses a smartphone in Chicago, Sept. 16, 2017. Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms.…
Study Using AI Reveals Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia, Not Cytokine Storm, Found as Key Factor in COVID-19 Fatalities
Summary: A recent study found that secondary bacterial pneumonia, rather than the much-discussed “cytokine storm,” is a significant factor in COVID-19-related fatalities. Almost half of the patients who required mechanical…
Cannabis Use Disorder Linked to Increased Schizophrenia Risk in Males
Summary: Young men who suffer from cannabis use disorder are more likely to develop schizophrenia, according to a new study. The study analyzed health records data of over 6 million…
Germany to ease solar rules as new installations surge
Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, speaks at the conference of the Green parliamentary group “Green Warmth for All” – Climate-Fair, Social, Environmentally Compatible, at the…
Tackling the ethical dilemma of responsibility in large language models
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with international experts, have published a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence addressing the complex ethical issues surrounding…
Researchers say AI emergent abilities are just a ‘mirage’
Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There seems to be no end to predictions of storm clouds when computers eventually decide to…
