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Imagine if you could predict heart failure before it develops.
The researchers at Oxford researchers have developed an AI tool that can predict heart failure at least five years before it clinically develops, using routine cardiac CT scans already performed in the UK's National Health Service (NHS).
Leaders are moving faster than their organisations
Gallup’s latest research exposes a growing AI adoption gap inside organisations where AI tools are already available.
Ethical AI Governance in China
Their intent is to embed mandatory ethical governance into AI activities conducted in China, where it may pose risks to Human Dignity, Public Order, Life and Heath, Privacy and Data Security, Social Fairness or Sustainable Development.
OpenAI suggest a new Industrial Policy
One that will 'prepare democratic societies for the transiition towards superintelligence'.
Doing your taxes is hard enough, then the AI scams make it worse.
The NY Attorney General, Letitia James, issued a consumer alert last week (on April 1, but not an Aprils Fool) to remind tax payers of the AI driven scams that they may fall foul of.
Can Sam Altman be trusted?
This is the question that The New Yorker asked in their latest investigative article.
Imagine a model which predicts our brain activity.
One that will open doors to more accurate neuroscience research and an understanding of how cognition works.
Have you ever had one of those stomach churning moments.
When you realise you have deleted (with no backup) the project you have been working on, and there is no way back.
Imagine if you could transport yourself back in time ...
... and talk to a Victorian. Someone who thinks Darwin is a disruptive thinker, and who is experiencing the Railways as a new transport method.
We all know AI works to please us, right?
In a recently published article in Science, reasarchers studied AI “sycophancy”, or the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to excessively agree with, flatter, or validate users, even when the user’s behavior is unethical, harmful, or socially inappropriate.
Is AI the answer to polarised views?
Extreme political views and negative feelings towards others who disagree politically have become a threat to current democracies.
Rent-a-human
What do you do if you are an AI Agent and you need a human to do a physical task for you?
Drugs giant Roche invests in Nvidia chips
Pharma giant Roche is adding a further 2,176 Nvidia GPUs to its internal “AI factory” which it says gives it the largest AI compute capacity of any pharmaceutical company.
AI takes on Cattle Herding
A startup, called Halter are in talks to raise $2bn in funding for their AI powered Cow collars and their deal is already oversubscribed.
AI generated music listened to by AI bots leads to a fraud conviction.
A North Carolina man, Michael Smith, pleaded guilty to running a large‑scale music streaming fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and automated bot accounts to steal millions of dollars in royalties from major streaming platforms.
Where is will invest $1bn
The OpenAI foundation recently shared its strategy to invest at least $1bn
It isn’t what you have. It’s how you use it.
A recent large‑scale study on AI tutors shows how using AI differently, makes a difference.
Tech Entrepreneur designs cancer vaccine for his dog
With the help of AI Paul Conyngham developed a custom a mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog Rosie.
Your LLM is biased too.
Researchers in Munich set out to see whether 20 LLM's displayed well established cognitive biases that humans have. They selected 30 common biases and ran 30,000 tests to see how they did.