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Plant-Based Food Wrap Designed To Replace Plastic

Rutgers Scientist Develops Antimicrobial, Plant-Based Food Wrap Designed To Replace Plastic

Aiming to produce environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic food wrap and containers, a Rutgers scientist has developed a biodegradable, plant-based coating that can be sprayed on foods, guarding against pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms and transportation damage. Their article, published in the science journal Nature Food, describes the new kind of Read more…

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Google Engineer Who Believes Its AI is Sentient Cites Religious Beliefs

Google engineer Blake Lemoine thinks Google’s chatbot-building system LaMDA attained sentience. But Bloomberg shares this rebuttal from Google spokesperson Chris Pappas. “Hundreds of researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA and we are not aware of anyone else making the wide-ranging assertions, or anthropomorphizing LaMDA, the way Blake has….” Yet Read more…

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Is Debating AI Sentience a Dangerous Distraction?

“A Google software engineer was suspended after going public with his claims of encountering ‘sentient’ artificial intelligence on the company’s servers,” writes Bloomberg, “spurring a debate about how and whether AI can achieve consciousness.” “Researchers say it’s an unfortunate distraction from more pressing issues in the industry.” Google put him Read more…

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