[ad_1] While bias in generative AI is a well-known phenomenon, it’s still surprising what kinds of biases sometimes get unearthed. TechCrunch recently ran a test using Meta’s AI chatbot, which launched in April 2024 for over a dozen countries including India, and found an odd and disturbing trend. When generating images using the prompt “Indian … Read more
[ad_1] When China locked down the city of Shanghai in April 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ripples from that decision quickly reached people receiving treatment for cardiac conditions in the United States. The lockdown shut a facility belonging to General Electric (GE) Healthcare, an important producer of ‘iodinated contrast dyes’, used to make blood … Read more
[ad_1] Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every week? Sign up here. Credit: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library For the first time, an AI system has helped researchers to design completely new antibodies. An algorithm similar to those of the image-generating tools Midjourney and DALL·E has churned out … Read more