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The latest in a rapid trend towards AI-powered tools, Predictmedix has announced the production of a mobile app that can detect alcohol and cannabis impairment using speech recognition and “multi-spectral imaging.” AI-powered facial recognition is coming to the world of breathalyzers. Though the technology is still ill-defined, there are some causes for concern. If that mishmash of convoluted buzzwords sounds concerning, then you’re not alone. The new algorithm, which is being designed primarily for law enforcement and healthcare providers, can allegedly identify impaired individuals in under 30 seconds with an over 90% success rate. That’s leaps and bounds better than…
Early customers include Air New Zealand, which aims to start with cargo deliveries and then explore passenger flights. The transition to electric vehicles on the road is well underway. But electrifying aviation is a longer slog, mainly due to battery limitations for long ranges and large loads. The key may be starting with shorter flights. One of the companies striving to electrify aviation, Beta Technologies, announced this week that it’s producing an all-electric plane for regional trips. The model could start to replace jet-engine aircraft for cargo delivery starting in 2025, and could eventually be deployed for passenger flights as…
Google is rolling out open access to the chatbot Bard, its answer to ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence computer program. The search engine said the “early experiment” makes the generative AI chatbot available for people in the U.S. and Britain starting Tuesday, with more countries and languages to be added at a later date. The announcement was made in a Google blog post written with Bard’s assistance. “We’ve learned a lot so far by testing Bard, and the next critical step in improving it is to get feedback from more people,” the Google blog post reads. The company said it will continue…
Artificial intelligence has developed a treatment for an aggressive form of cancerin just 30 days and demonstrated it can predict a patient's survival rate using doctors' notes. The breakthroughs were performed by separate systems, but show how the powerful technology's uses go far beyond the generation of images and text. University of Toronto researchers worked with Insilico Medicine to develop potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using an AI drug discovery platform called Pharma. HCC is a form of liver cancer, but the AI discovered a previously unknown treatment pathway and designed a 'novel hit molecule' that could bind to…
A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world’s fastest-growing brain condition – Parkinson’s disease. For the past 100 years, trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal, and dry clean clothes. It contaminates the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, 15 toxic Superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and up to one-third of groundwater in the U.S. TCE causes cancer, is linked to miscarriages and congenital heart disease, and is associated with a 500% increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. According to the National Cancer Institute, TCE is present in some household products, including cleaning…
The startup OpenAI on Tuesday said it is beginning to release a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, setting the stage for human-like technology to proliferate and more competition between its backer Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google. OpenAI, which created the chatbot sensation ChatGPT, said in a blog post that its latest technology is "multimodal," meaning images as well as text prompts can spur it to generate content. The text-input feature will be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and to software developers, with a waitlist, while the image-input ability remains a preview of its research. The highly-anticipated launch…
Russia has been supplying western-manufactured weapons and equipment captured on the battlefield in Ukraine to Iran, hoping that Tehran might reverse-engineer the technology, a CNN report claimed. The report, citing four sources, claimed that US, NATO, and other Western officials had recorded Russian forces taking control of US-made shoulder-fired weapons, including Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft systems that the Ukrainian army left behind on the battlefield. The sources suggest that Russia has shipped some of these weapons to Iran, probably so the country can disassemble them and examine the technology to produce similar weapons. Ukraine has acquired weaponry worth…
Artificial intelligence can create images based on text prompts, but scientists unveiled a gallery of pictures the technology produces by reading brain activity. The new AI-powered algorithm reconstructed around 1,000 images, including a teddy bear and an airplane, from these brain scans with 80 percent accuracy. Researchers from Osaka University used the popular Stable Diffusion model, included in OpenAI's DALL-E 2, which can create any imagery based on text inputs. The team showed participants individual sets of images and collected fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans, which the AI then decoded. We show that our method can reconstruct high-resolution images…
In response to Elon Musk's criticism of ChatGPT being too "woke," OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman admitted the startup "made a mistake," in an interview with The Information. Musk, an OpenAI cofounder who has since severed ties with the company, has routinely criticized OpenAI for implementing safeguards that prevent the chatbot from producing responses that could be deemed offensive. "We made a mistake: The system we implemented did not reflect the values we intended to be in there," Brockman, who serves as OpenAI's president, told The Information. "And I think we were not fast enough to address that. And…
Russia recently delivered another batch of ‘super lethal’ S-400 ‘Triumf’ long-range air defense system to India, according to reports by multiple media outlets. The Russian Ambassador to India, Denis Alipov, had said last month that Russia would soon deliver the third regiment of the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems to India. “It (third S-400 regiment) will be completed in the very near future…Both sides are committed to completing the contract, and we certainly will do that. Nothing prevents that,” Alipov said. An unnamed senior Indian defense official reportedly told Janes on March 2 that Russia has completed the delivery of…
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Nigeria now Africa’s top cement exporter, says Aliko Dangote

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Afenifere blasts Tinubu: ‘Midterm report shows woeful failure, economic deforms, and rising despair’

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Gunmen kill two policemen, abduct Chinese in Kwara

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Nigeria's Flying Eagles qualify for World Cup after dramatic win over Senegal

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