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AI predicts the work rate of enzymes
Enzymes play a key role in cellular metabolic processes. To enable the quantitative assessment of these processes, researchers need to know the so-called 'turnover number' (for short: kcat) of the enzymes. A team of bioinformaticians now describes a tool for predicting this parameter for various enzymes using AI methods.
Robot preachers get less respect, fewer donations
As artificial intelligence expands across more professions, robot preachers and AI programs offer new means of sharing religious beliefs, but they may undermine credibility and reduce donations for religious groups that rely on them.
Quick Glossary: Metaverse
Knowing and thoroughly understanding the terminology associated with the metaverse will be vital to business decision makers as they assess whether a metaverse strategy will best serve their business needs and, if it does, how and when they will deploy it. This quick glossary from TechRepublic Premium provides a practical foundation for employees, managers and ...
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal
Researchers showed real people and a neural network the same art—and they all found the same images memorable. What does that mean for artistic expression?
Everyone Wants Ukraine’s Battlefield Data
Global companies are offering free products to get access to live combat data. The Ukrainian government wants to keep this resource for its own emerging defense industry.
5 Ways ChatGPT Can Improve, Not Replace, Your Writing
Generate your own text—but get help from the AI bot to make it stand out.
Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice
We get it, relationships are hard. But asking ChatGPT how to do emotions is not going to work. Here are some better ideas.
Goodbye VR, hello AR, and can AI be more human, plz?
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. It seems like the fizzle has gone out of the VR conversation altogether, as every manufacturer and conversation is refocusing its attention on AR. That wasn’t particularly new, but Apple’s flagship headset is a huge leap away from virtual reality, […]
This Startup Wants to Give Farmers a Closer Look at Crops—From Space
A UK company cofounded by an astrophysicist combines AI with radar satellite imagery to keep track of vegetation, and eventually to make forecasts about its growth.
The New Minstrels Are Here
AI-generated video and images are ushering in an ungovernable reality—where the remixing of stereotypes is not only accepted, but big business.
AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
Leading AI developers including Google and OpenAI promised the Biden administration to check for problems such as biased output. The agreement is not legally binding.
AI will 'lead to more games being made and more jobs'
Games have been using forms of AI for years, but what does the industry think of the latest tech?
Meta’s Llama 2 Is an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT
Research and commercial organizations can use the upgraded, open-source Meta AI engine for free.
Google Bard Becomes More Available, Refinable, Shareable and Visual
Google Bard's new features are now available to people with Google accounts in more than 230 countries and territories, including the EU as of mid-2023.
Don’t Ask Dumb Robots If AI Will Destroy Humanity
Robots like Sophia are impressive to look at, but don’t let their humanlike facial expressions trick you into thinking these machines are intelligent.
Google is testing an AI tool that can write news articles
Google is testing a tool that uses AI to write news stories and has started pitching it to publications, according to a new report from The New York Times. The tech giant has pitched the AI tool to The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp. The tool, […]
Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans
This week, Steven Levy joins us to talk about Musk’s new generative artificial intelligence startup. We also discuss whether that absurd cage match is actually going to happen.
A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys
Helsing AI is building an operating system for warfare and says it’ll only ever sell to democracies.
Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies in 2023 and Beyond
The research firm outlines when the average organization should expect a technology to deliver the benefits necessary to justify continued investment.
5 Deepfake Scams That Threaten Enterprises
Forrester shines a light on the synthetic attacks that can cause organizations considerable headaches.
