January 27, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which claims that R1 matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 on multiple … Read More
January 27, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – All three seniors live in D.C. and are now part of a new program distributing robotic pets to residents 60 and older who live in Wards 1, 7 and 8. The initiative, spearheaded by three … Read More
January 27, 2025
(New York Times) – In the 1960s, the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke coined a useful adage: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” He was right, as demonstrated by the almost mystical reverence with which people tend to … Read More
January 24, 2025
(New York Times) – Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored. Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion … Read More
January 24, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is a web app that can carry out simple online tasks in a browser, such as booking concert tickets or filling an online … Read More
January 24, 2025
(Quartz) – LinkedIn has been sued by its Premium customers for allegedly disclosing personal information to train AI models without their consent. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, proposes a class-action … Read More
January 23, 2025
(Wired) – A new AI-powered search engine called Pearl is launching today, with an unusual pitch: It promises to connect you with an actual human expert if the AI answer sucks. WIRED gave it a spin. Big players like Google … Read More
January 22, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Some of the world’s most prominent names in technology are pledging to pour as much as half a trillion dollars into building artificial-intelligence infrastructure in the U.S., in the latest high-profile initiative timed with the start … Read More
January 22, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
January 21, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Visual analysis is something that AI has gotten quite good at since the first image recognition models began taking off nearly 15 years ago. Even though no model will be perfect, you can imagine a powerful … Read More
January 21, 2025
(Rest of World) – The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care. Studies show that AI companions like Dexie can be just as effective in reducing loneliness as … Read More
January 21, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being … Read More
January 20, 2025
(New Scientist) – A man with paralysis who had electrodes implanted in his brain can pilot a virtual drone through an obstacle course simply by imagining moving his fingers. His brain signals are interpreted by an AI model and then … Read More
January 20, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding. “That’s something that’s been very exciting for developers,” Jared Kaplan, chief scientist at … Read More
January 17, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – When you think of AI’s contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google DeepMind protein-folding program that earned its creator a Nobel Prize last year. Now OpenAI says it’s getting into the science game … Read More
January 17, 2025
(Wired) – “Without doubt, the remedy Congress and the President chose here is dramatic,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion. “Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know.” The US Supreme Court upheld … Read More
January 17, 2025
(Scientific American) – A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial … Read More
January 16, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Neuralink did not reply to emails seeking comment, but here is what our analysis of its public statements leads us to expect from the company in 2025. How many people will get these implants?Elon Musk keeps … Read More
January 16, 2025
(UPI) – Emotional support dogs can serve people with various mental health needs, but many of them can’t care for an animal at home. That’s where Tombot Inc. feels it can help. The company, based in Santa Clarita, Calif., has … Read More
January 16, 2025
(IEEE Spectrum) – Humanity is now rapidly integrating a wholly different kind of mistake-maker into society: AI. Technologies like large language models (LLMs) can perform many cognitive tasks traditionally fulfilled by humans, but they make plenty of mistakes. It seems … Read More
January 15, 2025
(Nature) – Proteins designed using artificial intelligence (AI) can block the lethal effects of toxins delivered in the venom of cobras, adders and other deadly snakes. The AI-designed proteins could form the basis of a new generation of therapies for … Read More
January 15, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
January 13, 2025
(Bloomberg via Yahoo!) – Neuralink Corp.’s brain-computer device has been implanted in a third patient and the company has plans for about 20 to 30 more implants in 2025, founder Elon Musk said. “We’ve got now three humans with Neuralinks … Read More
January 13, 2025
(Politico) – Medical students at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are developing artificial intelligence tools to help them learn how to provide all-options pregnancy counseling without putting themselves or their patients at risk of prosecution under the … Read More
January 13, 2025
(The Conversation) – The advent of evidence-based medicine meant clinicians identified the most effective treatment options for their patients based on quality evaluations of the latest research. Now, precision medicine is enabling providers to use a patient’s individual genetic, environmental … Read More