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Jan 2, 2025 · A Component of Weed Tackles Psychosis. Despite being federally illegal, psychedelics are having a moment. CBD, a component of both weed—which isn’t traditionally considered psychedelic, but can have similar effects—and hemp has already been approved by the FDA for treating seizures in kids two years or older.. A new clinical study called …

Nov 15, 2024 · A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train a robot dog using 100 percent synthetic data.

Dec 19, 2024 · Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to form connections could be the future.. While companies like Neuralink have recently provided some flashy demos of what could be achieved by hooking brains up to computers, the technology still has serious …

Jan 3, 2025 · Apple too is, allegedly, getting in on the game. According to a recent report by tech publication The Information, the company is developing an AI chip with long-time partner Broadcom.. In addition to big tech companies, there are a host of startups hoping to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the market.

Dec 12, 2024 · As well as showing off the chip’s error-correction prowess, the company’s researchers also demonstrated its speed. They carried out a computation in under five minutes that would take the world’s second fastest supercomputer, Frontier, 10 …

Dec 13, 2024 · Brain aging occurs in distinctive phases. Its trajectory could be hidden in our blood—paving the way for early diagnosis and intervention. A new study published in Nature Aging analyzed brain imaging data from nearly 11,000 healthy adults, middle-aged and older, using AI to gauge their “brain age.” Roughly half of participants had their blood proteins …

Aug 29, 2024 · Data: AI's Online Education. AI's hunger for data and its impending scarcity is a well-known constraint. Some forecast the stream of high-quality, publicly available data will run out by 2026.But Epoch doesn't think data scarcity will …

Dec 6, 2024 · The team trained the AI on 40 years of historical weather data from a publicly available database up to 2018. Rather than asking for one prediction, they had GenCast spew out a number of forecasts, each one starting with a slightly different weather condition—a different “butterfly,” so to speak.

Nov 30, 2024 · “[This] is a key feature championed particularly by corporate actors invested in open AI,” wrote the team. There’s a reason: Training AI models requires massive computing power and resources, often only available to large tech companies.