Enlarge / Still from a demo video showing ACT-1 performing a search on Redfin.com in a browser when asked to “find me a house.” Adept Yesterday, California-based AI firm Adept announced Action Transformer (ACT-1), an AI model that can perform actions in software like a human assistant when given high-level […]
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A new technology uses human teardrops to spot disease
Human tears could carry a flood of useful information. With just a few drops, a new technique can spot eye disease and even glimpse signs of diabetes, scientists report July 20 in ACS Nano. “We wanted to demonstrate the potential of using tears to detect disease,” says Fei Liu, […]
Vinay Gupta: Ecological Sanity Is Compatible With Human Freedom
In the early days, Bitcoin proposed a simple model of how the world could be transformed: The free market was going to produce inflation-proof money with strong privacy features, which could be used to avoid taxes. Over time, people would sell their dollars, replace them with cryptocurrency and the State […]
Is The Venus Project The Next Stage In Human Evolution?
The Venus Project The Venus Project A seismic shift is under way. Against the backdrop of rising temperatures, collapsing ecosystems, and the threat of species extinction, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are now moving to transform the global order. Indeed, for the first time in our history, we have […]
Three arrested over modern slavery, drug and human trafficking offences
Three people have been arrested in connection with modern slavery and drugs offences after a routine stop by officers near Harrogate. A silver Audi A4 saloon car was pulled over by traffic cops on Burn Bridge Road at Pannal just before 3am on August 25. Following checks on the car […]