Websites can already detect when an AI agent visits and serve it completely different content than humans see. Hidden instructions in HTML. Malicious commands in image pixels. Jailbreaks embedded in PDFs. Your AI agent is being manipulated right now and you can't see it happening. Paper here. I knew this was going to happen soon. Websites don't like it when autonomous agents visit and scrape their sites and do things without human intervention. So a good way to protect yourself is tell agents to get lost, while your human visitors don't see any changes. Smart. So be careful when your "personal assistant" books your flight and your hotel for your next trip. I predict the whole OpenClaw thing is going to collapse in a few months.
And someone asks: AI agents promise to 'run the business,' but who is liable if things go wrong? Or when your agents screw up?
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FFmpeg is another example of open source infrastructure code that has been maintained by an unpaid volunteer. So far, it works, but what happens when it stops being maintained?
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This is why I think the concept of copyright in art and music is going to collapse in the age of AI. It's too easy to create and recreate a certain style of art or music. The original artist or musician should be able to sell it to anyone who wants to buy it. But forget getting a copyright and preventing someone else from making money off it. It just won't be enforceable, and things like this will happen.
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Japan Wants to Build a Solar Ring Around the Moon That Will Provide Endless Clean Energy to Earth. What happens if someone flies in front of the microwave beam that sends energy from the Moon to Earth? Will birds, satellites and aircraft get fried? Perhaps we will need to arrange for large storage batteries to be shuttled back and forth. Seems safer, but that will also lead to new forms of crime, I'm sure. We can't have nice things on Planet Earth. Interesting idea, though, Japan. Keep thinking!
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AI cuts MRI scan time from 23 to 9 minutes at Amsterdam cancer center. This is where healthcare AI can shine. Reducing MRI scan time will benefit everyone.
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Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength. It's a bacterium of the Roseburia genus.
The mice treated with the bacteria showed an approximate 30% increase in grip strength in their forelimbs compared to animals that did not receive it.
It's not going to turn people into a body builder, but may help to stave off age-related muscle decline. As long as it doesn't do anything negative.
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I remember Project Ara, which would let you upgrade your phone incrementally, replacing on those components that needed updating or replacement. Ten years after idea conception, that phone still doesn't exist.
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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson requests millions from other counties for homeless shelters as cash dries up in Multnomah County. Anyone want to throw good money after bad? Mayor Wilson will take some. Boy, he hasn't been having good days lately. Protestors gave him a taste of what the South Waterfront people have been experiencing for many months. Andy Ngo has the receipts.
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This is not healthy. One industry is propping up Oregon’s job market. It's healthcare. Healthcare is a service industry and it's growth over the years has been the result of federal and state subsidies and union presence. Here's the telling statement:
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Oregon may not have enough qualified workers to keep up with the state’s needs.Well, Oregon shouldn't have fired so many healthcare workers because of the COVID-19 vax policy. That was stupid and now they are paying the price.
A quarter of Oregon’s health care workers are older than 55, and the number of people earning certificates or degrees in health care fields isn’t rising fast enough to keep pace with job growth and looming retirements, the employment department found in a report last year. Providers, meanwhile, aren’t attracting enough workers from outside the state.
PSU may cut entire Gen Ed program as 200 staff could be laid off. Yes, money is in short supply everywhere in Portland. The commenters are brutal.
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