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This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it.

Mason encourages any artists who don’t want their works in the data set to contact LAION, which is an independent entity from the startup. LAION did not immediately respond to a request... Read more »

The Download: discovering proteins, and Pakistan’s climate crisis

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Uber appears to have been hacked by a teenagerAn 18-year old is claiming to be behind... Read more »

The Checkup: What minimally conscious brains can do

I’d come across a new study suggesting that people in a minimally conscious state can learn a rudimentary form of language, or at least a string of previously unknown syllables.It sounded fascinating,... Read more »

The “fingerprints” of climate change are clear in Pakistan’s devastating floods

In this case, however, just how big a role climate change played isn’t clear. It’s relatively straightforward to conduct an attribution study that assesses the influence of warming in heat waves, where... Read more »

“Fingerprints” of climate change are clear in Pakistan’s devastating floods

In this case, however, just how big a role climate change played isn’t clear. It’s relatively straightforward to conduct an attribution study that assesses the influence of warming in heat waves, where... Read more »

An AI that can design new proteins could help unlock new cures and materials 

The new tool, ProteinMPNN, described by a group of researchers from the University of Washington in two papers published in Science today (available here and here), offers a powerful complement to that... Read more »

Customer experience and the future of work

Major trends such as the impact of covid-19 on accelerating digital commerce, remote and hybrid working, and changing employee expectations driving the “great resignation” are having profound effects on workforce strategies in... Read more »

An AI used medical notes to teach itself to spot disease on chest x-rays

The research, described in Nature Biomedical Engineering, found that the model was more effective at identifying issues such as pneumonia, collapsed lungs, and lesions than other self-supervised AI models. In fact, it... Read more »

Using governance to spur, not stall, data access for analytics

In this way, governance is planned and executed to create competitive advantage, addressing policy compliance, security, accessibility, and usability in a frictionless and comprehensive manner. This in turn speeds the availability of... Read more »

The Download: The Merge arrives, and China’s AI image censorship

The dark secret behind those cute AI-generated animal images. Google Brain revealed its own image-making AI, called Imagen, earlier this year. But don’t expect to see anything that isn’t wholesome. Read the... Read more »