Instead of writing about these things, mariner will drop the lead-ins and sources so the reader can check out the ones of interest.
֎ Scientists Make ‘Cyborg Worms’ with a Brain Guided by AI — AI and tiny worms team up to get to treats. In the study, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers trained an AI agent to direct one-millimeter-long Caenorhabditis elegans worms toward tasty patches of Escherichia coli in a four-centimeter dish.
Want to know where the best place to buy a house is? Just ask AI, they’ll make you go there. BTW, got lots of money?
֎ https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily: California lawmakers sent a nationally consequential AI bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk last week — America’s most high-profile effort to date to put fresh legal guardrails around AI safety.
State Bill 1047 would hold companies liable for harms caused by their software, establish protection for AI whistleblowers, and put safety restrictions and requirements on AI models that reach a certain level of computational power, the closest any new American law has come to the European Union’s sweeping AI Act.
All we need now is a functioning Federal Government.
֎ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-surveillance-pricing-practices-under-federal-probe/ AI ‘Surveillance Pricing’ Could Use Personal Data to Make People Pay More. The agency’s ongoing investigation was sparked by a growing awareness that companies are using AI and machine learning to track certain categories of user data—such as age, location, credit score or browsing history—which many people probably wouldn’t deliberately share.
Consumer surveillance extends beyond online shopping. “Companies are investing in infrastructure to monitor customers in real time in brick-and-mortar stores,” she says. Some price tags, for example, have become digitized, designed to be updated automatically in response to factors such as expiration dates and customer demand. Retail giant Walmart—which is not being probed by the FTC—says its new digital price tags can be remotely updated within minutes.
Use storefronts and pay cash as much as you can! Google won’t know you were there (if you leave your phone in the car).
֎ There are several stories in online news about the useless effort to make the oil industry take responsibility to reduce global warming.
Goodbye, Florida and New York City.
Ancient Mariner