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FastCompany: Exclusive: Headspace’s new AI chatbot will offer mental health support to subscribers

10-10-2024 TECH Exclusive: Headspace’s new AI chatbot will offer mental health support to subscribers Called Ebb, the chatbot was trained by clinical psychologists and data scientists to help people make positive behavioral changes with motivational interviewing. [Photo: Headspace] BY Jessica Bursztynsky … Continue reading

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Tortoise: Daily Sensemaker

5 of 27,769 Print all In new window The new Nobelity .The new Nobelity Google was celebrating its association with two pairs of Nobel prize winners yesterday, one in chemistry and one in physics. So what? Google isn’t a university or a government … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: AI Enhances Early Detection of Health Issues.”…As it stands right now, the AInSights is extremely cost-effective to run: Less than a dollar per patient, and just about $700 per month at this large health system that sees a high volume of patients…”

AI Enhances Early Detection of Health Issues Featured Neuroscience October 7, 2024 Summary: Penn AInSights, an AI-based imaging system, enhances radiology by creating precise 3D views of internal organs, enabling early detection of health issues like fatty liver disease and diabetes. … Continue reading

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Are Large Language Models the New “Thinking Aids”? Comment: with joy I greet innovations like these. TBI 30 yrs ago; hearing deficits, olfactory damage, brocas et al. Opportunity placed me in Trinity College Dublin where I had access to computers and notetaking lectures too. Groundwork via computer, Twitter, WordPress means this was my source of augmented reality but now what greatly interests me is AI those LLM’s. Embrace is all I can say. We all have a cognitive reserve and we should add to it.

 Verified by Psychology Today John Nosta The Digital Self Cognition Are Large Language Models the New “Thinking Aids”? LLMs may be a perfect tool to support and sustain cognitive health. Posted October 3, 2024 |  Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Key points Source: DALL-E / … Continue reading

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Tortoise Daily Sensemaker: The Cult of Sam. Artificial Intelligence from non profit making to immense returns

View in browser The Cult of Sam AI, the company behind ChatGPT, has raised $6.6 billion in its latest funding round. It’s the largest fundraise in Silicon Valley’s history and has nearly doubled the company’s valuation to $157 billion. So … Continue reading

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New Atlas: Environment … Carbon-neutral granite-based concrete finds use in towering NYC skyscraper. What will be the impact on CRH and other companies?

Environment Carbon-neutral granite-based concrete finds use in towering NYC skyscraper By Ben Coxworth October 01, 2024 Designed by Foster + Partners, 270 Park Avenue will be the new global headquarters of banking company JPMorganChase dbox / Foster + Partners View 3 … Continue reading

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Eurasia Review follow it: The Campus Life Killers: Ending Face-To-Face Lectures – OpEd. “…As such, these modules can be undertaken in the form of online courses, which offer fleeting flexibility and shallow taste.  This is education thinned and skinned, fatless and deprived…”

The Campus Life Killers: Ending Face-To-Face Lectures – OpEd  September 25, 2024  0 Comments By Binoy Kampmark The bells are tolling for the demise of the university classroom – at least its physical manifestation.  Administrative barbarians are readying their knives and brandishing … Continue reading

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Nature: CERN prepares to expel Russian scientists — but won’t completely cut ties. ….”Although JINR’s constitution states that its research must be for peaceful purposes, the lab has close ties with the Russian military, say Grynyov and Tetiana Hryn’ova, a Ukrainian physicist at the French national research agency, CNRS, who works on the ATLAS experiment….”

CERN prepares to expel Russian scientists — but won’t completely cut ties The laboratory has ended its agreement with the nation, but will continue working with a Russian nuclear-research institute, raising tensions among researchers. Europe’s particle-physics laboratory CERN will expel … Continue reading

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Irish Legal News: European Commission loses court battle over €1.5bn Google fine

technology European Commission loses court battle over €1.5bn Google fine 19 Sep 2024Reading time: 2 minutes A nearly €1.5 billion fine imposed on Google by the European Commission has been annulled by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). … Continue reading

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New Atlas. Surgery-free Neuralink rival enables thought-controlled smart home (Abhimanyu Ghoshal)

Technology Surgery-free Neuralink rival enables thought-controlled smart home By Abhimanyu Ghoshal September 17, 2024 A Synchron trial participant controlling Alexa just by thinking about which interface buttons to press Synchron Neurotech company Synchron has been making massive strides over the past … Continue reading

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