Do you want to identify the neighbours of your favourite cells but are unsure where to start?
Check out our Primer, just out in @Dev_journal , for an overview of synthetic neighbour-labelling systems and of how they can be used in developmental settings.
Huge thanks to @CellySally, Tamina Lebek and Guillaume Blin for a real fun writing experience!
Here's a #BookReview I wrote of Tobias Dengel and Karl Weber's "The Sound of the Future" - which claims that #voice#technology like #ASR, #TTS and #synthetic#speech are transformative, and that businesses should start to invest heavily in them.
While the book covers a lot of ground, it leaves many more critical questions unanswered in its unabashed techno-optimism.
Adobe and the "Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity" release a symbol (and a standard) for marking AI generated content.
The symbol feels like a riff on the #creativecommons logo, and indeed this new symbol should be seen as similar in nature - not in legal terms, but in the sense of being a voluntary, visual standard for signalling the character of content.
Still, the symbol is really confusing - why would you mark #synthetic content with a speech cloud that says "CR"?
No, no, never, not ever would I want synthetic salmon. I can't even stand farmed salmon.
Once in a blue moon we find some real, fresh, red wild salmon when we have the funds to splurge on it. You just can't get this taste and texture anywhere else. It is a luxury in today's world, and we treat it like that.
I'll eat beans all day before I'll pretend fake fish is really food. And talk about ultra-processed!
If you're worried about #LLM-based #AI, you're focusing on the wrong thing and may lack imagination.
This, and related developments (I can't view them as advancements, knowing how this all will end) are what's going to end the human race as we've known ourselves.
Much good can be derived from technologies like this, but we—being as we are—will ultimately go much to far.
I don't think we're prepared for our instant evolution (and, separately, eventual mechanization).
#Synthetic#DNA, what could possibly go wrong? Science isn't really sure how it works, on a fundamental level.
"#DNAzymes" are different from #human DNA but, "...can act as molecular scissors with precise specificity to cut RNA or DNA, or they can function as glue...Say you have a mutated gene...causing disease, we could get this DNA into the cells and...get rid of all that kind of message that's causing the proteins that lead to the disease."
Oh boy, this is some Black mirror kind of stuff. Synthetic human embryos. Amazing and frightening. No sperm or ova required. #science#biology#synthetic#embryology