by Swifty | Apr 19, 2023 | Articles, Uplift
The burgeoning field of “digital bioacoustics” is helping us understand animals like never before. Kelso Harper: Have you ever wondered what songbirds are actually saying to each other with all of their chirping? Sophie Bushwick: Or what your cat could...
by Swifty | Apr 19, 2023 | Articles, Technology
Chips are fast approaching physical limits. Replacing them with minibrains might be the next step forward. Artificial intelligence is the tech catchphrase of the moment, but it may soon share headline space alongside another wild new computing field: organoid...
by Swifty | Mar 2, 2023 | Articles, Technology
“We can rewind to a previous scene or skip several scenes ahead.” An international team of scientists claim to have found a way to speed up, slow down, and even reverse the clock of a given system by taking advantage of the unusual properties of the...
by Swifty | Feb 7, 2023 | Articles, Video
This video “will make you see the future, a wonderful future, where we can use brain waves to fight crime and be more productive and find love”. – World Economic Forum 2023 Technology able to decode the affective states of individuals is already used...
by Swifty | Feb 7, 2023 | Articles, Technology
OpenAI has been scrambling to enact new rules that prevent its wildly popular ChatGPT from generating text from being generally horrible — like by promoting things that are unethical, illegal, or just plain controversial. Back in the day, you could ask the red-hot AI...
by Swifty | Jan 13, 2023 | Articles, Technology
There has been a lot of hype lately around on tools such as OpenAI Codex being able to replace human coders. The idea is that a non-programmer could just tell an AI application what they need an app to do, and the ‘intelligent’ tool will create the required software...
