Cybernetics
Transdisciplinary field concerned with regulatory and purposive systems
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| 2025 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Europe was leading the United States in AI regulation for healthcare, while simultaneously lagging in technological innovation. A California-based biotech company began engaging with the European Medicines Agency earlier in development to address potential regulatory concerns.
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| January 2025 |
Artificial intelligence
Microsoft proposed the rStar-Math technique using Monte Carlo tree search and step-by-step reasoning, enabling Qwen-7B to solve 53% of AIME 2024 and 90% of MATH benchmark problems.
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| January 20 2025 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
During the second Trump administration, deregulation of health AI began, introducing voluntary standards for data collection and sharing, and eliminating statutory definitions for algorithmic discrimination and equity.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
The Council of Europe created the first international legally binding treaty on AI, called the 'Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law'.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
The UK AI Safety Institute released 'Inspect', an open-source AI safety testing toolset available on GitHub, which can evaluate AI models across core knowledge, reasoning, and autonomous capabilities.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
During the Indian elections, US$50 million was spent on authorized AI-generated content, including creating deepfakes of politicians and translating speeches into local languages.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
Google DeepMind introduced SIMA, an AI capable of autonomously playing nine previously unseen open-world video games and executing tasks based on natural language instructions.
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| 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
Researchers used machine learning to accelerate Parkinson's disease drug treatment research, speeding up initial compound screening ten-fold and reducing costs by a thousand-fold while targeting alpha-synuclein protein aggregation.
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| November 1 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected Talen Energy's application to supply electricity from the Susquehanna nuclear power station to Amazon's data center, citing grid burden and cost-shifting concerns.
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| October 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
A Bloomberg article reported that Ubitus, a cloud gaming services company with Nvidia stakes, is exploring land near nuclear power plants in Japan for a new generative AI data center.
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| September 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
Microsoft announced an agreement with Constellation Energy to potentially re-open the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, aiming to secure 100% of the plant's electric power production for 20 years, with an estimated reopening and upgrade cost of $1.6 billion.
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| May 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
At the AI Seoul Summit, 16 global AI tech companies agreed to safety commitments for AI development.
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| March 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
Amazon purchased a Pennsylvania nuclear-powered data center for $650 Million, signaling Big Tech's interest in nuclear energy solutions for AI power needs.
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| February 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
A study revealed low performance of language models in reasoning capabilities for solving math problems not included in their original training data.
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| January 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released Electricity 2024, Analysis and Forecast to 2026, the first IEA report to project power consumption for data centers and AI, forecasting potential doubling of power demand by 2026.
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| January 2024 |
Artificial intelligence
Taiwan suspended approval of data centers north of Taoyuan with capacity over 5 MW due to power supply shortages.
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| 2023 |
Catherine Mason
Continued exploring how artists can use cybernetics in her research and writing.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
AI textbooks by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig emerged as the most widely used textbooks in the field of Artificial Intelligence according to the Open Syllabus ranking.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
OpenAI leaders published recommendations for the governance of superintelligence, predicting potential emergence in less than 10 years.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
The United Nations launched an advisory body comprising technology executives, government officials, and academics to provide AI governance recommendations.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
Leading AI experts endorsed a joint statement declaring that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, comparable to risks from pandemics and nuclear war.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
Eight years after the 2015 incident, Google Photos and similar products from Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon still could not correctly identify gorillas, demonstrating persistent challenges in addressing algorithmic bias.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
Leading authors including John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen filed a lawsuit against AI companies for using their copyrighted works to train generative AI models without permission.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
AI-guided drug discovery successfully identified a class of antibiotics capable of killing two different types of drug-resistant bacteria.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
GPT language models achieved human-level performance by scoring at comparable levels on professional standardized tests including the bar exam, SAT, and GRE, showcasing advanced natural language understanding and generation capabilities.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
The US National Eating Disorders Association replaced its human helpline staff with an AI chatbot, which was subsequently taken offline after users reported receiving harmful advice.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
A research study compared ChatGPT-generated medical responses with physician responses on Reddit's r/AskDocs, finding that evaluators preferred ChatGPT's responses in 78.6% of 585 evaluations, citing better quality and empathy in answering medical questions.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
A systematic review and thematic analysis revealed that most healthcare stakeholders were skeptical about the empathy of AI-involved care, highlighting ongoing concerns about AI's human interaction capabilities in healthcare settings.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
A study demonstrated AI's capability in CT-based radiomics classification for grading retroperitoneal sarcoma aggressiveness, achieving 82% accuracy compared to only 44% accuracy in traditional lab biopsy analysis.
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| 2023 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
A systematic review and thematic analysis revealed that most stakeholders, including health professionals, patients, and the general public, were skeptical about AI's ability to provide empathetic care.
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| November 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
The first global AI Safety Summit was held in Bletchley Park, UK, with 28 countries issuing a declaration for international cooperation on AI risks.
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| July 2023 |
Project Cybersyn
Evgeny Morozov produced a nine-part podcast series titled 'The Santiago Boys', exploring Project Cybersyn, Stafford Beer, and the group around Salvador Allende.
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| June 2023 | Elected secretary general of the newly formed Wushu and Kungfu Federation of Europe, created by merging the European Wushu Federation and the European Wushu and Kungfu Federation. |
| May 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
Geoffrey Hinton announced his resignation from Google to speak freely about AI risks, highlighting potential dangers of AI takeover and emphasizing the need for safety guidelines.
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| April 2023 |
Artificial intelligence
A report revealed that 70% of jobs for Chinese video game illustrators had been eliminated by generative artificial intelligence, demonstrating the rapid impact of AI on creative employment sectors.
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| 2022 |
Cyborg
Remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches were developed, capable of moving to sunlight for recharging and potentially useful for disaster site inspections.
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| 2022 | Served as a NOC member with the Croatian delegation at the 19th Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. |
| 2022 | Daughter Kiara won a gold medal in an individual kata event at the Nanbudo World Championship. |
| 2022 |
Robopsychology
A systematic review of scientific literature revealed no existing psychological sub-discipline dedicated to studying the effects of robots on people's lives, highlighting the emerging nature of robopsychology as a field of study.
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| 2022 | First Asian Student Council Symposium (ASCS) held, preceding the ISCB-Asia Conference. |
| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence
Dan McQuillan published 'Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence', presenting critical arguments against the expansive development of artificial intelligence and proposing an alternative perspective on technological progress.
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| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence
37 AI-related laws were passed globally, a significant increase from the previous years.
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| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence
The Association for Computing Machinery at its Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) in Seoul, South Korea, published findings recommending curtailing the use of self-learning neural networks trained on unregulated internet data until bias can be eliminated.
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| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence
Generative AI technologies emerged capable of creating highly realistic images, audio, video, and text that are virtually indistinguishable from real human-created content, raising significant concerns about potential misuse for misinformation and propaganda.
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| 2022 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Pew Research Center conducted a survey exploring Americans' opinions about AI's increased presence in daily life, revealing that 37% of respondents were more concerned than excited about AI, with 8% specifically worried about potential misuse of AI.
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| November 30 2022 |
Artificial intelligence
ChatGPT is launched, becoming the fastest-growing consumer software application in history by gaining over 100 million users in two months and marking a significant public breakthrough for AI.
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| 2021 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Under President Biden, the DHSS and the National Institute of Standards and Technology were instructed to develop regulation of healthcare AI.
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| 2021 |
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
The OCR issued guidance on the ethical use of AI in healthcare, outlining four core ethical principles: respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice, and hired a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (OCAIO) to implement the HHS AI strategy.
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