The newsletter also features a story about the downfall of South Korea's nuclear industry due to greed and corruption. It mentions the Biden administration's desire to communicate with social media firms, Google's search dominance, and the resumption of abortion care in Wisconsin. It ends with a section on fun and interesting stories, such as the discovery of the green comet Nishimura, a unique wedding cake-style pavilion in the UK, and a curry house cover of Mr Brightside.
Key takeaways:
- Self-driving car startup Wayve is using chatbots to train its vehicles, combining self-driving software with a large language model to create a hybrid model that syncs up video data and driving data with natural-language descriptions.
- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that everyone six months or older get the new covid vaccine targeting the omicron variant known as XBB, sparking a debate about who should get vaccinated and who will benefit most from the new formulation.
- AI chatbots have achieved higher average scores than humans in the Alternate Uses Task, a test commonly used to assess creativity, adding fuel to an ongoing debate among AI researchers about what it means for a computer to pass tests devised for humans.
- AI-supported models have been found to detect 20% more cancers in comparison to human experts working without AI, but screening is only one part of the puzzle and in some cases, it can actually cause harm.