Just so it’s clear, each subject spent hours training their own AI to recognize words they intentionally produced as “inner voice”. At the end, each trained AI could only recognize those trained words, and only from their trainer.
That’s quite a bit different than an AI that could recognize new words in a completely different person. I think that’s as unlikely as training ChatGPT using only English texts and then expecting it to understand Chinese.
Despite what the linked article claims, it’s still not clear whether alcohol’s known cancer risk is outweighed by any health benefits (for example, reducing the risk of stroke/CVD). At least one recent paper concluded that light or moderate alcohol use does reduce overall mortality.
Compared with lifetime abstainers, current infrequent, light, or moderate drinkers were at a lower risk of mortality from all causes [infrequent—hazard ratio: 0.87; 95% confidence interval: 0.84 to 0.90; light: 0.77; 0.75 to 0.79; moderate 0.82; 0.80 to 0.85], CVD, chronic lower respiratory tract diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and influenza and pneumonia. Also, light or moderate drinkers were associated with lower risk of mortality from diabetes mellitus and nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, or nephrosis. In contrast, heavy drinkers had a significantly higher risk of mortality from all causes, cancer, and accidents (unintentional injuries).
In the animal study, mice were fed three types of red meat – pork, beef and mutton – every day for two weeks. Then, the researchers triggered colitis (a model for IBD) using a chemical called dextran sulfate sodium (DSS).
They definitely aren’t evolved to eat dextran sulfate sodium.
Like saying goodbye to a crazy neighbor you know.
You can get the RDA of vitamin D from a healthy diet, without need for sunlight.
Weight gain is caused by diet and lack of exercise, not lack of sunlight.
SAD can be treated with non-carcinogenic lamps.
What deleterious health effects from not getting sun exposure?
There’s no “safe” level of sunlight, even if you wear sunscreen.
Sunlight is also a carcinogen, but that doesn’t mean you always stay indoors.
Uh no, the AI didn’t crack any problem.
The AI produced the same hypothesis that a scientist produced, one that the scientist considered his own original awesome idea.
But the truth is that science is less about producing awesome ideas and more about proving them. And AI did nothing in this regard, except to remind scientists that their original awesome ideas are often not so original.
There’s even a term scientists use when another scientist has the same idea but actually managed to do the work of proving it: “scooped”. It’s a very common occurrence. It didn’t happen here.
Nonsense. Most people who boycott products aren’t posting about it on the internet.
And I don’t know why you assume that opposing one company means you have to oppose others. People are allowed to oppose PayPal but not give a crap about eating meat.
I can easily avoid every company owned by PayPal.
It’s an open standard now, it doesn’t really matter that Tesla was the first. So it’s a good thing, kind of like iPhones switching to “Android charging cables”.
Spoiler: it’s not exactly 1/137, that’s just an approximation.
Normally words are all trained together, not one after another. Subjects do a monitored task that includes the entire vocabulary list, data from that task is processed extensively off-line, and finally subjects return to test all the vocabulary words.