🕵️ The Spy Who AI-ed

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• 🧪 Research highlights: BacterAI: The AI Scientist That Doesn't Need a Lab Coat

• 🚨 Industry news: Iflytek Challenges OpenAI's ChatGPT with SparkDesk AI Model

• ⚖️ Policy and regulation: Can Private AI Help US Intelligence Keep Up?

• 🌐 AI and society: Life, Technology, and the Blurring Boundary

• 🧰 Tool of the day: Postly: The All-in-One Platform for Savvy Marketers

• 🧠 Let’s get smart with AI: Digging for Gold: What Is Data Mining?

🦠 BacterAI: The AI Scientist That Doesn't Need a Lab Coat 🥼

BacterAI, a newly developed artificial intelligence system, enables robotics to conduct up to 10,000 scientific experiments per day, which could accelerate the rate of discovery in medicine, agriculture, and environmental science.

The system mapped the metabolism of two oral-health-related microorganisms and identified their amino acid requirements for growth.

BacterAI, in contrast to conventional methods that rely on labeled data sets, generates its data set through a succession of experiments, enabling it to predict which new experiments may yield the most information.

Using fewer than 4,000 tests, the system was able to determine the majority of feeding principles for bacteria.

Check this: The research was supported by NVIDIA and financed by the National Institutes of Health.

⚔️ Iflytek Challenges OpenAI's ChatGPT with SparkDesk AI Model

Iflytek, a Chinese voice-recognition business, has showcased its AI model SparkDesk, which seeks to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT for educational and enterprise applications.

The AI-powered software assesses student essays and creates hypothetical scenarios using voice-recognition prompts.

The protest was conducted in response to Beijing's push for greater industry regulation and the publication of draft rules requiring a security review of generative AI services.

While firms such as Baidu and Alibaba Group Holding have ambitions to incorporate AI into their products, Chinese enterprises have extra challenges, such as teaching chatbots to reject sensitive or controversial content that the Communist Party has forbidden.

🗽 Can Private AI Help US Intelligence Keep up?

Gilbert Herrera, the National Security Agency's (NSA) head of research, has stated that US intelligence services should leverage commercially accessible artificial intelligence (AI) to compete with foreign adversaries, incredibly huge commercial AI models trained on the open internet.

Herrera listed corporations such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft and stated that if the United States is to realize the promise of AI fully, it would need to collaborate with the industry.

He agreed that commercially available AI models risk introducing biased algorithms into secret surveillance missions. Still, he asserted that intelligence needs might be addressed without access to the data used to train and create the models.

Businesses, according to Harris, must collaborate with the government to create protections to protect civil rights and privacy and combat disinformation and scams.

🌱⚙️ Life, Technology, and the Blurring Boundary

In an essay for Noema Magazine, an astrobiologist, and theoretical physicist, Sara Walker, argues that technology is not artificially replacing life but rather is life itself.

She observes that new life forms necessitate the development of technologies that enable humans to see and explore the world in novel ways. The line between life and technology is becoming increasingly hazy.

While the worry of machines obtaining enough intelligence to replace organic life is valid, she believes that technologies' potentially far-reaching impact on the evolutionary paths of living worlds is sometimes overlooked.

Attempts to define life based on individuals have failed because something that should not be included or excluded is frequently included or excluded.

📝 Postly: The All-in-One Platform for Savvy Marketers

Postly is an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses and marketers improve their marketing efforts by increasing client involvement, sales, and overall engagement. Because it can create, manage, and distribute large-scale social media marketing campaigns on a single platform, users can more effectively plan their marketing operations and achieve their objectives.

Learn more about the tool here.

⛏️ Digging for Gold: What Is Data Mining?

Data mining is the process of identifying patterns and insights from big and complicated data sets using machine learning algorithms.

It entails obtaining and analyzing data to uncover meaningful trends, patterns, and linkages that can assist organizations in making educated decisions.

Cleaning and pre-processing data, selecting relevant algorithms, and reviewing the outcomes are common steps.

Data mining is integral to AI since it allows robots to learn from data and make predictions. It may be used in various industries, including finance, healthcare, marketing, etc.

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AI is a complex field, and I am the first to say that computer scientists have not progressed as far as many believe. For instance, we currently have no credible research path to any conscious AI algorithm, and there are no robots that are truly autonomous or able to make their own decisions — so don’t worry about walking terminators.

When you change your thoughts, remember also to change your world.

• 💻 Debuild - is an AI-powered low-code platform that helps you build web applications faster and more efficiently than traditional coding methods.

• 🌐 Shumai (Meta) - is a network-connected, open-source AI tool designed for TypeScript users.

• 📈 Enzyme Quality Management System and Regulatory Submission Platform was created to assist in streamlining the process of getting a product to market.

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