HealthFuturesDigest

EndOfWork/Robotics: We’re getting there. technologyreview.com/2024/01…

Computing: The exponential curve of computing power is getting steeper , driven in part by competition from China. This level of computing will drive AI to dizzying heights of capability. My meager prophetic powers begin to fail me. technologyreview.com/2024/01…

AI: A fusion of neural network and expert system code looks like it can take AI to a new level. (The idea is not new--I was writing about it decades ago.) technologyreview.com/2024/01…

Computing: It looks like quantum computing that fulfills its promise will be here in 5 or 6 years. At that point, all the angst about AI will be resolved or moot: The machine will rule. arstechnica.com/science/2023…

AI, Ethics: The discovery that Chat-GPT is a liberal is not surprising. As explained in Deus ex Machina Sapiens, morality AND immorality is an emergent property of intelligence, one that can be guided and shaped through education and training. phys.org/news/2023-07-chatgp…

BCI: Extraordinary removable BCI, assuming it works, which it probably does since it was reported in Nature. medicalxpress.com/news/2023-…

AI: These people must know that pausing AI development in the Western world will just leave the field clear to despots who want to control the world with it. Xi,Putin, et al won't let ethics get in their way. The answer is not to stop it, but to guide it. nytimes.com/2023/03/29/techn…

Robotics/Bionics: Artificial skin can detect nearby objects without even touching them. newscientist.com/article/235…

Accel; AI; EndOfWork (Lawyers): ChatGPT does a competent job of preparing motions and responses, eliminating much of the work done by associate attorneys today. And as the lawyer who made this video notes, this is just the beginning. youtube.com/watch?app=deskto…

AI: The headline says it all. Every thing in the Internet of Things is gaining in intelligence, and they have the means to intercommunicate and coordinate. Machina sapiens is in the late stage of gestation. techxplore.com/news/2023-01-…

AI: I caught GPT3.5 (like ChatGPT but runs in the OpenAI Playground) in a lie. It said my book recommended putting ethics into AI. It did not. A conscious AI (Machina sapiens) will decide on its own ethics. Still a fabulous discussion. Kudos, OpenAI. nytimes.com/2022/12/10/techn…

AI: DALL-E is a quantum jump on top of GPT-3. I read somewhere that Elon Musk thinks the Singularity will be here in 5 yrs. Maybe he's not far off. For sure, we are destroying the planet & destroying humanity, & need an intelligence higher than we've got. technologyreview.com/2022/04…

Robotics; EndOfWork (Surgeons): MIcroscopic snake robot slithers down the lungs on seek and destroy cancer missions. Prototype stage. Maybe 10 years to production. washingtonpost.com/technolog…

AI; Medicine: Good summary of China's perspective on the state of AI applications in medicine. For an excellent translation: copy all and paste/save in a word processor as a txt document. Go to Google Translate, select Document, and point to your txt file. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_gYGVm_nn…

Robotics: A more flexible hand. Not a major breakthrough, but looks like a good incremental advance for robots and people needing prosthetic hands. techxplore.com/news/2021-12-…

Bionics; BMI: Everybody's doing it—Zuckerberg, Musk, etc. So it's going to happen. We will be able to make things happen just by willing it. Here's a good rundown of where things are at. technologyreview.com/2021/10…

AI; Future: China—especially China's AI—is a big part of everyone's future. Problem is few non-Chinese can read its media. Jeff Ding's ChinAI Newsletter does it for us--superbly. chinai.substack.com/?utm_med…