Don’t count Bill Gates among the fans of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Those digital asset trends are “100% based on greater fool theory,” the Microsoft co-founder said Tuesday at a TechCrunch conference, referencing the notion that investors can make money on worthless or overvalued assets as long as people are willing Read more…
Coinbase is laying off nearly a fifth of its workforce amid a collapse in its stock and crypto prices. From a report: The cryptocurrency exchange will cut 18% of full-time jobs, according to an email sent to employees Tuesday morning. Coinbase has roughly 5,000 full-time workers, translating to a headcount Read more…
Liza Vertinsky, Professor of Law, University of Maryland, and Yaniv Heled, Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University: Every so often stories of genetic theft, or extreme precautions taken to avoid it, make headline news. So it was with a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Read more…
The drones are coming as Amazon announces Monday that it’s launching a fleet of delivery drones. The retail giant will test its new Amazon Prime Air delivery system in Lockeford, California, the company said. Amazon worked with the Federal Aviation Administration and local officials in Lockeford, a small town south Read more…
Google engineer Blake Lemoine works for Google’s Responsible AI organization. The Washington Post reports that last fall, as part of his job, he began talking to LaMDA, Google’s chatbot-building system (which uses Google’s most advanced large language models, “ingesting trillions of words from the internet.”) “If I didn’t know exactly Read more…
“Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin believes that unfriendly artificial intelligence poses the biggest risk to humanity…” reports a recent article from Benzinga: [In a tweet] Buterin shared a paper by AI theorist and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky that made a case for why the current research community isn’t doing enough to prevent Read more…
In 2003, the Human Genome Project finished sequencing every bit of human DNA, remembers MIT News. “Now, over two decades later, MIT Professor Jonathan Weissman and colleagues have gone beyond the sequence to present the first comprehensive functional map of genes that are expressed in human cells.” The data from Read more…