
Who is Jesse Lee Calhoun? Career criminal who received reduced sentence is reportedly ‘person of interest’ in serial killings of four Oregon women
Jesse Lee Calhoun reportedly has a lengthy criminal history dating as far back as 2004 ranging from burglary to assault
2023-07-19 16:50

Kevin Costner limits estranged wife Christine Baumgartner's credit as she refuses to vacate $100M house
Christine has claimed that Costner unexpectedly canceled one of her credit cards and significantly reduced the credit limit on another
2023-06-30 15:28

Who is Ian Craig Lees? Longtime lovers Big Sean and Jhene Aiko seek restraining order after obsessed fan trespasses property
Jhene Aiko requested a temporary restraining order against Ian Craig Lees, whom she alleges snuck onto her Pacific Palisades property
2023-08-24 20:17

EU Reviews Aid for Palestinians, Reversing Earlier Freeze
The European Union said late Monday that it’s urgently reviewing the bloc’s assistance to the Palestinians after several
2023-10-10 06:24

White House completes $50 million revamp of high-security Situation Room
The White House Situation Room, the high-security complex beneath the West Wing where presidents watch history unfold and receive top-secret intelligence, has undergone a much-needed makeover for the first time in 15 years.
2023-09-08 17:59

Who was Yitzian Torres Garcia? Grandparents of 7-year-old fatally shot on 4th of July speak out as killer remains unknown
'This was a person they killed not an animal,' Yitzian Torres Garcia’s grandmother, Marisol Ayala, said
2023-08-21 18:16

Just Stop Oil protesters briefly disrupt Ashes cricket test between England and Australia
Two protesters from the Just Stop Oil group have run onto the field at Lords and briefly disrupted play about five minutes after the start of the second Ashes cricket test between England and Australia
2023-06-28 19:28

West Virginia forward Akok Akok released from hospital after collapsing on court during exhibition
West Virginia forward Akok Akok has been released from a hospital where he was taken after collapsing on the court during an exhibition game
2023-10-30 00:22

House Speaker’s Plan to Avert US Shutdown Faces Critical 24 Hours
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s new short-term funding plan for the US government could run aground in the next
2023-11-14 02:53

The Biden administration is encouraging the conversion of empty office space to affordable housing
The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions
2023-10-27 20:55

Scientists find that AI can read thoughts from monitoring your brain activity
Scientists have revealed they had found a way to combine the technology of brain scans and artificial intelligence to transcribe “the gist” of people’s thoughts. Alex Huth, an assistant professor of neuroscience and computing science at the University of Texas at Austin, and a co-author on the new study published in Nature Neuroscience, said that ‘this is a real leap forward.’ The study was led by Huth and Jerry Tang, a doctoral student in computer science. The main development from this study is that it’s non-invasive. This means that subjects do not require surgical implants. Instead, brain activity is measured using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter In the study, individuals listened to hours of podcasts in the scanner. Then, given the participant’s consent to have their thoughts decoded, they listened to a new story and the machine-generated corresponding texts from brain activity. It’s not a word-for-word transcript. For example, when an individual heard the phrase ‘I don’t have my driver’s licence yet’, the model decoded the individual’s thoughts to read as ‘she has not even started to learn to drive yet.’ Even when participants thought up their own stories, the machine was able to decode their thoughts still. Tang acknowledged that the advancements made in the study had the potential for negative aftermath. Tang said, ‘we take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that.’ They ran tests that highlighted that unless the machine had been trained on an individual’s particular brain activity, it could not decode its thoughts. An individual had to allow for the machine to train their brain activity over a long period of time inside a fMRI scanner for it to work. Researchers also found that it was easy to ‘sabotage’ the machine. Three participants were told to tell a different story in their mind, or count by seven, while listening to one of the podcasts. The study highlights even more development with artificial intelligence, after the popularity of OpenAI’s Chat GPT has sparked debate around the potential of AI. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-05-20 00:27

Gamma Technologies and Proventia Join Forces to Accelerate Battery Development Through a Holistic Battery Simulation Platform
WESTMONT, Il.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2023--
2023-05-30 15:29
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