In this edition, the top news starts with:
So, um… we have a story…
people upload photos to a company’s website…
willingly…
that company uses those photos to help develop Vision AI-related technology internally…
people freak out that the company did that???
* sigh *
Really, maybe it’s just best if AI manages humans anyway…
they clearly lack any sort of logic, decision making ability and clearly can’t predict themselves out of a paper bag…
moving on…
Scientists have figured out how to entangle ‘clouds’ of atoms… opening the door to all kinds of possibilities…
The Elysia Cholorotica (a type of sea slug) is getting a lot of attention for its ability to eat plants and extract the components for photosynthesis and add that functionality to its own cells, spurring discussion on artificial photosynthesis.
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-solar-powered-sea-slugs-perpetual.html
The ophthalmologist Andrew Bastawrous has gotten a $1 billion boost to end world blindness.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40560945/the-fight-to-end-global-blindness-gets-a-1-billion-boost
It was recently found that a PDF can be engineered to steal passwords and Adobe plans on doing nothing.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pdf-files-can-be-modified-to-steal-your-windows-password/
Google Maps is being abused by scammers through the Google URL shortening service; but, unlike Adobe, Google is fixing their issue.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/360815/google-maps-is-being-abused-by-scammers
Intel atop Bing AI ads, IBM Watson atop Google AI ads.
Lastly, the Singularity Index or S.I. is slightly down at 975.40, for no logical reason…
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