Rare dinosaur 'Barry' up for sale at Paris auction
The 150 million year-old camptosaurus is expected to fetch up to €1.2m ($1.2m) in October.
1970-01-01 08:00
NBC's Sunday Night Football Proves Tua Tagovailoa is the Next Dan Marino
Is Tua Tagovailoa the right-handed Dan Marino?
1970-01-01 08:00
Ukraine war: Russia demands UN court throw out case against it
Kyiv says Moscow falsely used genocide law to justify its invasion, but Russia wants the case thrown out.
1970-01-01 08:00
Shake Shack Tests Oil to Make Its Fries Healthier and Greener
Your next ’shroom burger from Shake Shack Inc. may be prepared using a frying oil that comes from
1970-01-01 08:00
Liverpool GP suspended after changing records to cover error
Dr Victor Ebenuwa misdiagnosed a patient's condition and medication, a tribunal hears.
1970-01-01 08:00
At least 20 killed in South Africa as bus erupts in flames after head-on collision
At least 20 people - mostly mine workers - were killed in South Africa's Limpopo province on Sunday after a bus they were traveling in erupted in flames following a head-on collision with a truck, state media reported.
1970-01-01 08:00
Men in Blazers Media Network Opening New UK Studio
Men In Blazers opening up shop in U.K.
1970-01-01 08:00
ChatGPT AI is about to be eclipsed by ‘interactive AI’, DeepMind founder says
The current wave of generative AI tools like ChatGPT will soon be surpassed by “interactive artificial intelligence”, according to AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman. The co-founder of DeepMind, which was acquired by Google for $500 million in 2014, said the next generation of AI tools will be “a step change in the history of our species”, allowing people to not just obtain information but also order tasks and services to be carried out on their behalf. “The first wave of AI was about classification. Deep learning showed that we can train a computer to classify various types of input data: images, video, audio, language. Now we’re in the generative wave, where you take that input data and produce new data,” Mr Suleyman told MIT Technology Review. “The third wave will be the interactive phase. That’s why I’ve bet for a long time that conversation is the future interface. You know, instead of just clicking on buttons and typing, you’re going to talk to your AI.” This will allow users to ask these AI to perform tasks for them, which they will carry out by talking with other people and interacting with other AIs. “That’s a huge shift in what technology can do. It’s a very, very profound moment in the history of technology that I think many people underestimate,” he said. “Technology today is static. It does, roughly speaking, what you tell it to do. But now technology is going to be animated. It’s going to have the potential freedom, if you give it, to take actions. It’s truly a step change in the history of our species that we’re creating tools that have this kind of, you know, agency.” When questioned about the potential risks of giving artificial intelligence autonomy, Mr Suleyman said it was important to set boundaries for the technology and make sure that it is aligned with human interests. When Mr Suleyman was still working at DeepMind, his colleagues helped develop what became known as a “big red button” that would effectively serve as an off switch for rogue AI. A research paper titled ‘Safely Interruptible Agents’ described how any misbehaving robot could be shut down or overriden by a human operator in order to avoid “irreversible consequences”. Read More 10 ways AI will change the world – from curing cancer to wiping out humanity
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UK focuses on transparency and access with new AI principles
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out principles designed to prevent generative AI models like ChatGPT from being dominated
1970-01-01 08:00
Scientists have discovered a new fly that fails its one job
Scientist have discovered a fly that... can't fly. In December 2021, the John Midgley and Burgert Muller from the Diversity of Pollinating Diptera in South African Biodiversity Hotspots project went to Lesotho, the only country in the world that has its entire territory located at an altitude of 1,000 metres and higher to see what they could find. At the Afriski mountain resort, they found 51 male specimens of Atherimorpha latipennis (a species discovered in 1956 but whose female had never been described) and a for the first time a female belonging to the same species which couldn't get off the ground. “It’s not unheard of for only the female of a species to be flightless,” says Midgley. “But there were no examples in this fly’s family, let alone its genus.” Martin Hauser, a senior dipterologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, who was not involved in the research, told the Guardian: “Active flight has only originated four times in the last three billion years, so it’s always interesting when a species loses the ability to fly. It isn’t super surprising to find flightless species. But it is remarkable when the first case of flightlessness is reported in a family.” Scientists could only make educated guesses about why the female had lost the ability to fly. Despite it being much faster than walking, allowing flies to escape predators. “flight is also costly,” said Midgley. “You have to grow wings, and it uses a lot more energy than walking.” “For the males it is worth flying around and being able to search a larger area for females,” said Hauser. “Even if, while flying, they are exposed to birds and other predators, and risk being blown off the mountain and ending up in a hot valley with no females.” Meanwhile, there are other species that can't fly like ostriches, kiwi and emus. It is thought they evolved to lose flight after the dinosaurs became extinct because there were no predators big enough to hunt them. Fly - you had one job... Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
1970-01-01 08:00
What Jeremy Doku has learned since joining Man City
Man City winger Jeremy Doku explains what he has already learned since joining the club from Rennes in summer.
1970-01-01 08:00
Wolfgang Van Halen refuses to cover his dad's songs
Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang Van Halen refuses to cover his dad's songs at his shows because he feels it's important to 'prove himself' and be his 'own musician'
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