Who will benefit from AI? | MIT News
What if we’ve been thinking about artificial intelligence the wrong way? After all, AI is often discussed as something that could replicate human intelligence and replace human work. But there is an alternate future: one in which AI provides “machine usefulness” for human workers, augmenting but not usurping jobs, while helping to create productivity gains…
Microsoft’s Edge Copilot AI can’t really summarize every YouTube video
One feature added to Microsoft’s AI Copilot in the Edge browser this week is the ability to generate text summaries of videos. But Edge Copilot’s time-saving feature is still fairly limited and only works on pre-processed videos or those with subtitles, as Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft’s CEO of advertising and web services, explained. As spotted by…
Roo-ver: Australia’s first moon rover has name chosen in public vote
An early impression of how Roo-ver might look Australian Space Agency It hasn’t been built yet and it won’t be hopping like its namesake, the kangaroo, but Australia’s first moon rover has officially been dubbed Roo-ver. More than 8000 suggestions were submitted in a nationwide competition and 20,000 people voted from a shortlist of four…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) Famed Bull Market Pullbacks Have Been Elusive. Here’s Why
Derivatives are usually leveraged instruments, allowing traders to take bullish (long) or bearish (short) positions worth more than the amount they have deposited as a margin at the exchange. Leverage is a double-edged sword, magnifying both profits and losses. It also exposes traders to liquidations, or forced unwinding, due to margin shortfalls. Furthermore, mass liquidations…
A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state | MIT News
A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer a cell into a new state. The technique holds great promise in immunotherapy, for instance, where researchers could reprogram a patient’s T-cells so they are more potent cancer killers. Someday, the approach could also help identify life-saving cancer treatments or regenerative therapies that…
Google’s AI note-taking app is now available to users in the US
NotebookLM, Google’s experimental AI-powered note-taking app, is now widely available in the US. It’s also getting several new features and is “starting” to use Google’s Gemini Pro AI model “to help with document understanding and reasoning,” according to the company. NotebookLM can already do things like summarize the documents you import into the app, come…
Gesturing as you talk may help you speak a new language like a local
Hand gestures may help you stress syllables that should be emphasised as you learn a new language Fiordaliso/Getty Images If you’re learning a new language, making pronounced hand gestures could help you emphasise the correct parts of words. In some languages, certain syllables within words are pronounced with markedly more weight than others, known as…
Deloitte Taps Polkadot Blockchain Kilt to Provide Digital Shipping Logistics for Hapag Lloyd
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Is AI in the eye of the beholder?
Someone’s prior beliefs about an artificial intelligence agent, like a chatbot, have a significant effect on their interactions with that agent and their perception of its trustworthiness, empathy, and effectiveness, according to a new study. Researchers from MIT and Arizona State University found that priming users — by telling them that a conversational AI agent…
EU reaches provisionap deal on AI Act, paving way for law
Following a round of intense negotiations this week, lawmakers in Brussels have now reached a “provisional agreement” on the European Union’s proposed Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). The EU’s AI Act is anticipated to be the world’s first comprehensive set of rules to govern AI and could serve as a benchmark for other regions looking…