then prescriptions should be done away with and all drugs should be available.

It used to be the way the world was. The result was huge amounts of addiction (laudanum was 10% opium), and gullible people being peddled snake oil.

The bill, which was passed by the state legislature on April 29 and is expected to be signed by Governor Greg Gianforte, essentially expands on existing Right to Try legislation in the state.

The same people who are denying abortions & medical care to trans people, are all for “freedom” and right to choose when it comes to other people’s medical choices?

…in a similar way as with conventional rental cars – which can be hired to transport people to “a range of destinations, including cultural landmarks and urban tourist attractions.”

Baidu, like everyone else, still hasn’t got to true Level 5 self-driving. But it doesn’t need Level 5 to be offering services like this. If you have mapped out the 100 most popular destinations in a city, and fixed routes between them, then level 4 self-driving like they have now, is all you need.

This isn’t the same as a regular rental car you can drive anywhere, but many people would be happy with a car that covers a city’s Top 100 spots. How does this differ from a taxi? Seemingly that you rent it for specified time slots, whether you’re in the car driving or not.

Yes, Meta are 2nd, I amended the text.

I’m pretty sure in Trump’s addled brain he thinks if the US gets a human on Mars first & plants the US flag, he can claim the whole planet as belonging to the US.

The accuracy rate will improve, sadly most of the developing word barely recycles anything.

Yes, for once taking the jobs humans don’t want.

Unless they are trained otherwise, AI will pick up all the biases in its training data. So far, as that’s the content of the entire internet, I’m not surprised at this outcome. I’d guess AI training is the next battleground for the woke/anti-DEI crowd, so they can preserve these prejudices.

It often tends to be forgotten, but solar energy has a twin - renewable lunar energy - harnessing the power of the tides. Not everywhere in the world is suited to it. However, this company says there’s enough of it to meet 10% of global electricity demand. Some places are especially well suited, and they point out Alaska could get 100% of its electricity from tidal power.

For sure, I find it very useful for those purposes. But I think it says something significant so many people are using it for companionship.

This is a tentative result, it’s only one patient, and large scale trials would be needed to confirm it. Still, if it is confirmed it’s a significant breakthrough. HuidaGene is also working on treatments for Huntington’s Disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD among other diseases. It’s also working on various Ophthalmology related conditions.

I pretty sure that is the tariffs, this doesn’t look like its replacing 20,000 just yet.

The big caveat here is that ‘cured in lab tests’ and a viable human treatment are two different things, and sadly the former doesn’t always lead to the latter. Still, this points to what may work in the future. Just how much of our tissue could be replaced by brand new 3-d printed tissue?

We tend to focus on the many bad effects of AI, but its doing, and will do, plenty of good too.

That’s odd. I see it all. Here’s an archive.ph version.

There’s a few different efforts like this. DeepMind have another one. I follow these types of developments as much as possible, because I think robotics is soon going to take off thanks to recent advances in AI.

Yeah they mention it can reduce stress on joints, for people with arthritis and other conditions this could be a lot more than a hiking toy.

I’ve no relationship with the company! In fairness, it does seem to work. I posted it as it seemed quite cool.

I disagree. There are definitely people who sincerely believe in AI ‘consciousness’. Ironically, they are usually the first to throw about terms like ‘woo woo’ in any discussions about human consciousness.

When it gets to the point AI is self-recursively improving itself, is this a version of ‘life’ as we know it? Perhaps with humans as the ultimate parent? In a sense those AIs would be our descendents.

My problem with Big Tech leading these efforts, is that they are so often anti-human welfare, why would we trust them with the issue of anyone else’s? Big Tech’s desire to have zero regulation is an expression of how little concern they have for other humans. The ease with which all the Big Tech firms help the military slaughter tens of thousands of civilians is another. I can’t help thinking they’ll use any effort to elevate AI ‘welfare’, to harm the interests of inconvenient humans, which means most of us to them.