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Last week, two big names in the artificial intelligence (AI) and wellness industries announced a collaboration to develop a “customised, hyper-personalised AI health coach that will be available as a mobile app” to “reverse the trend lines on chronic diseases”. Sam Altman (head of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT) and Arianna Huffington (a former media executive who runs a high-tech wellness company called Thrive Global) announced their new company, Thrive AI Health, in a Time magazine advertorial. Health is an appealing direction for an AI industry that has promised to transform civilisation, but whose huge growth of the past couple of years is be...... Read Full article on HadNews

Sora AI’s Problems Open AI’s latest AI tool, Sora, has caused quite a buzz in the tech and creative industries. With the ability to generate photorealistic videos from just a few sentences, Sora has opened up a whole new world of possibilities. But with this exciting new technology comes a set of challenges and limitations that need to be addressed. One of the main limitations of Sora is the need for huge compute power to generate the videos. This means that currently, only those with access to high-end computing resources can take advantage of Sora’s capabilities. Additionally, the system still has some issues with logical concepts a...... Read Full article on HadNews

There is a growing consensus that environmental problems, particularly the effects of climate change, pose a grave challenge to humanity. Pollution, habitat destruction, intractable waste issues and, for many, deteriorating quality of life should be added to the list. Economic growth is the chief culprit. We forget, though, that environmental impacts are a consequence of per capita consumption multiplied by the number of people doing the consuming. Our own numbers matter. Population growth threatens environments at global, national and regional scales. Yet the policy agenda either ignores human population, or fosters alarm when perf...... Read Full article on HadNews