a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a science laboratory, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Science” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1
OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in lab
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce research partnership | OpenAI
“OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory have formed a partnership to study model bioscience capabilities. Los Alamos has also established AIRTAG the AI Risks and Threat Assessments Group. GPT-4o, with Voice Mode enabled, will be used in lab to assist bioresearch.
“Today Sam Altman and I published a piece in TIME sharing our vision for how AI-driven personalized behavior change can transform healthcare and announcing the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new company funded by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global, which will be devoted to
OpenAI Startup Fund & Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global Create New Company, Thrive AI Health, To Launch Hyper-Personalized AI Health Coach
“The OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive just announced a new venture developing a hyper-personalized AI-powered health coach The coach will be trained in scientific research, biometric data, and individual preferences to offer tailored recommendations
“The @WashingtonPost just launched an AI-powered climate Q&A tool! 🌍🤖 Key points: – Answers climate questions using WaPo’s published reporting – RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) app based on their coverage – Transparent disclaimers about the experimental nature – Asks users
Synchron unveils OpenAI-powered BCI chat feature
“Synchron CEO Tom Oxley says their brain-computer interface uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o to generate prompts from multimodal inputs that users can choose from to express their intentions
Ex-Meta scientists debut gigantic AI protein design model
“Open science at work: This model solved 29 out of 50 math problems in the AI Math Olympiad.” / X
“The first human patient to receive the Neuralink implant, @ModdedQuad, mentioned that he might be able to control an Optimus robot using Neuralink during the study, hopefully within the next few months or a year.
“From today’s Neuralink stream: ⦿ Elon: People who lost speech will be able to communicate with Optimus via Neuralink. ⦿ Elon: An exciting long-term possibility is attaching Optimus limbs to amputees for direct control via brain signals. “You’d have, basically, cybernetic
“Elon Musk and Neuralink went live and shared the insane potential of Neuralink <> Tesla Optimus 1. People who can’t speak can communicate with Optimus 2. People who’ve lost limbs could possibly use a robotic Optimus limb and control it with their brains
Musk says next Neuralink brain implant expected in ‘next week or so’
“Health Tip: Get a Calcium CT Heart Scan It checks your heart’s arteries – knowing can help prevent heart disease I paid $168 (no insurance) at Stanford. The scan took 3min, and I got results in 3hrs Everyone should do this” / X
“Researchers developed an AI system capable of reconstructing images of what a macaque monkey is looking at based on brain activity The study does have some limitations (like using images already in the dataset), but the research is still pretty incredible
This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It’s Not Slowing Down : ScienceAlert
The ultimate blood substitute? The U.S. military is betting $46 million on it | Science | AAAS
Scientists Discover a New Hormone that Can Build Strong Bones | UC San Francisco
“You may not realise it, but the next few years are going to be great years for experimental aircraft and aerodynamics innovation. Let’s take a look at a few of the highlights you should know about…
Inside the Laboratory for Extraordinary Microbes
Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one. — LessWrong
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AI News #41: Week Ending 07/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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