If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?
In 2021, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines—and got himself fired—when he claimed that LaMDA, the chatbot he’d been testing, was sentient. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially so-called large language models such as LaMDA and ChatGPT, can certainly seem conscious. But they’re trained on vast amounts of text to imitate human responses. So how can we really know?
Now, a group of 19 computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers has come up with an approach: not a single definitive test, but a lengthy checklist of attributes that, together, could suggest but not prove an AI is consc...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 22, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Turmoil Shakes Scarsdale, N.Y.: Is an Architect a ‘Master’ or Just Meh?
SCARSDALE, N. Y.—You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name of Simon B. Zelnik, a respected-but-not-celebrity New York architect who died in 1980. He designed temples, homes, department stores, a theater in Manhattan and taught at New York University for two decades.#scarsdale #nyyoud #simonbzelnik #manhattan #newyorkuniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Turmoil Shakes Scarsdale, N.Y.: Is an Architect a ‘Master’ or Just Meh
SCARSDALE, N. Y.—You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name of Simon B. Zelnik, a respected-but-not-celebrity New York architect who died in 1980. He designed temples, homes, department stores, a theater in Manhattan and taught at New York University for two decades.#scarsdale #nyyoud #simonbzelnik #manhattan #newyorkuniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pig kidney keeps working for over a month in brain-dead man ’s body
Medical breakthrough marks longest pig kidney has functioned in a human, setting stage for operations in living patientsA pig ’s kidney transplanted by surgeons into a brain-dead man has continued to function normally for more than a month – a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.The latest experiment, announced on Wednesday by New York University Langone Health, marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one, and it ’s not over. Researchers will track the kidney’s performance for a second month.Continue reading... (Source: ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Associated Press Tags: US healthcare US news Science Source Type: news
New York University - Taylor Swift - 2023-08-10
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 18: Taylor Swift Delivers New York University 2022 Commencement Address at Yankee Stadium on May 18, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)#taylorswiftdelivers #yankeestadium #newyorkcity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
All NYU Medical Schools Are Tuition-Free After Ken Langone ’s $200M Donation
Current and future students attending medical school at New York University (NYU) will be offered free tuition, all thanks to donations from billionaire investor Ken Langone and his wife Elaine. Following the couple’s most recent gift, a $200 million donation to NYU’s Long Island School of…#newyorkuniversity #nyu #kenlangone #robertgrossman #manhattan #langone #longisland #homedepot #langones #mba (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Voclosporin Safe, Effective for Long-Term Treatment of Lupus Nephritis
WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2023 -- Voclosporin can preserve kidney function up to three years for patients with lupus nephritis, according to a study published online July 19 in Arthritis& Rheumatology.
Amit Saxena, M.D., from New York University in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 26, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Child's Experience of Racial Discrimination Tied to Higher Risk for Obesity
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 -- Self-reported racial discrimination is a risk factor for adiposity in U.S. children and teens, according to a study published online July 11 in JAMA Network Open.
Adolfo G. Cuevas, Ph.D., from the New York University School... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
What Haunts Child Abuse Victims? The Memory, Study Finds
A study of adults who were mistreated in childhood found that those who did not recall it showed fewer psychological aftereffects. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ellen Barry Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect Mental Health and Disorders Research Depression (Mental) Psychology and Psychologists Therapy and Rehabilitation Anxiety and Stress Memory Children and Childhood City University of New York JAMA Psychiatry (Jour Source Type: news
AI and CRISPR precisely control gene expression
Artificial intelligence can predict on- and off-target activity of CRISPR tools that target RNA instead of DNA, according to new research published in Nature Biotechnology.
The study by researchers at New York University, Columbia Engineering, and the New York Genome Center, combines a deep learning model with CRISPR screens to control the expression of human genes in different ways - such as flicking a light switch to shut them off completely or by using a dimmer knob to partially turn down their activity. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - July 3, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
' Everything Is on the Table' After Supreme Court Rulings: Law Professor
The United States Supreme Court "made it very clear" that more civil rights could be at risk in the coming years, warned New York University law professor Melissa Murray during a Sunday MSNBC appearance. The Court's ruling in a key LGBTQ+ rights case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, on Friday has…#newyorkuniversity #melissamurray #msnbc #loriesmith #colorado #usconstitution #firstamendment #dobbs #murray #insidewithjenpsaki (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Janitor who shut off lab freezer due to'annoying' alarms ruined decades of research, college claims in suit
More than 20 years of research was ruined at an upstate New York university after the school said a janitor shut off a freezer that was setting off "annoying alarms", court records show. The lawsuit filed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, against Daigle Cleaning Systems Inc. —…#troy #albany #kvlakshmi #usatoday #sound (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results
NEW YORK CITY—
Amid
rock music
,
a rap
about consciousness, and the calling in of a 25-year-old drunken bet, camps backing two leading theories of how consciousness arises from the brain waited anxiously in a Greenwich Village theater on Friday to hear who had won the first round of an ambitious “adversarial collaboration.” On balance, the initial results presented appeared to favor the idea that consciousness is a feature of networks of neurons found at the back of the brain.
But the opposing camp is far from ready to concede. It still contends that consciousness emerges within the bra...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 25, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Engadget hires Saleh as health and fitness reporter
Malak Saleh has joined Engadget as a health and fitness reporter to cover topics ranging from biotech breakthroughs to advancements in wellness technology. Recently, she freelanced as a digital producer at Al Jazeera. She is also a summer adjunct at New York University. Previously, Saleh was a…#malaksaleh #engadget #aljazeera #newyorkuniversity #barrons #incmagazine #twitter (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New study finds certain diet may cut risk of type 2 diabetes
The team, led by scientists from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, recruited 10 people with obesity and high blood sugar levels for their study. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
