Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness. With the growth of antimicrobial resistance, routine treatments could become impossible owing to the risk of infection. Cancer treatments, care of newborns and routine surgeries are all in danger if this trend isn't curbed. Millions of people are already dying from infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Back in 2003, when he was at Oxford, Bostrom penned an influential philosophical paper with the incredible title of “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” Loosely speaking, his argument was that sufficiently advanced civilizations will eventually build sophisticated simulations of their own ancestors - and that, given enough time in the simulation, those simulated beings will develop their own simulation inside the simulation, where a new set of simulated ancestors will do the same thing, ad infinitum.
“AI [artificial intelligence] can create a 30-page research paper for you out of thin air based on fake science,” warns Jill Luber, chief technology officer at Elsevier. As a publisher of scientific and medical journals and papers, she says: “We've seen a major increase in “ fabricated science ” and it is our job to protect the publishing world from that.”
In the classic fairy tale, Aladdin, the genie has three simple rules: The genie cannot kill anyone, make people fall in love, or bring people back from the dead. Today's LLMs have similar, basic guardrails and constraints that set the scene.
Huntington & Ellis has launched Smart by h&e, a proprietary artificial intelligence platform built in-house to support agents across every stage of a real estate transaction. The tool is trained on the brokerage's internal standards, Nevada-specific practices and compliance workflows. It is designed to help agents simplify contract language for clients, draft professional offer and negotiation communications, manage transaction timelines and generate marketing content such as listing descriptions, open house promotions and social media posts.
“AI is already embedded across multiple layers of Magna's supply chain and manufacturing operations,” Sharath Reddy, the company's SVP of R&D, told Business Insider. “We don't view it as a stand-alone technology.” Magna's AI investments focus on five areas: product quality, equipment maintenance, factory safety, energy reduction, and output speed.
South Korean monks at Jogyesa Temple in Seoul are facing that situation now as they ordained Gabi, the country's first robot monk. Dressed in traditional grey-and-brown Buddhist robes, it joined the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism as part of the celebrations ahead of Buddha's birthday later this May. South Korea joins its neighbor Japan, which previously had its own AI monk, Buddharoid, join a Kyoto temple, a sign that the intersection of faith and technology is becoming a growing trend across Asia, and that the question of AI's role in religion is no longer purely theoretical.
