🧠 Brain-Machine Technologies Could Be the Next Frontier in Biocomputing

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What’s happening in AI -

Scientists Now Want to Create AI Using Real Human Brain Cells.

Researchers at John Hopkins University have detailed in a new paper how brain-machine technologies could be the newest frontier in biocomputing. The team is developing biological computing using 3D cultures of human brain cells, or brain organoids, which share aspects of brain structure and function that play a key role in cognitive functions like learning and memory.

The researchers envision complex 3D cell structures that would be connected to AI and machine learning systems, creating biological hardware that could be even more efficient than current computers running AI programs.

The technology has potential applications in medicine, but ethical concerns have also been acknowledged.

Microsoft Windows 11 update puts AI front and center.

Microsoft is rolling out an update to Windows 11 that will put its AI-powered Bing search capabilities on the taskbar, despite recent controversy over Bing's AI chatbot. The AI tool will be accessible from the Windows search box, which has more than half a billion users every month.

Only users of the new Bing preview will have access to its additional AI capabilities out of the gate. Microsoft is also taking steps to improve the Windows experience for Apple and Samsung users by allowing Apple users to receive iOS alerts and messages directly on their Windows 11 devices and making it easier for Samsung device users to activate their phone’s personal hotspot.

Hugging Face, AWS partner on open-source machine learning amidst AI arms race.

Hugging Face, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) startup, is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer scalable access to open-source AI models. The partnership will allow developers to use AWS infrastructure to fine-tune and deploy Hugging Face's models and will extend the availability of the models to other AWS products and cloud-based AI accelerator hardware.

While Microsoft has invested $10bn in OpenAI and is working to integrate large language models (LLMs) into its products, Hugging Face aims to continue to deliver open-source models, and its partnership with AWS will avoid lock-in. Hugging Face's focus on openness and transparency aligns with its vision that this is the way forward for machine learning.

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Artificial intelligence training is powered mostly by fossil fuels.

Mark Zuckerberg wants A.I. ‘personas’ for your Facebook and Instagram accounts as he scrambles to keep up with rival ChatGPT.

D-ID unveils new chat API to enable face-to-face conversations with an AI digital human.

South Korean startup rival to Nvidia seeks $400 million valuation and plans new A.I. chip.

Scientists are using AI to dream up artificial enzymes.

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