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The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots

MIT Technology Review

For decades, handmade narco subs have been some of the cocaine trade's most elusive and productive workhorses, ferrying multi-ton loads of illicit drugs from Colombian estuaries toward markets in North America and, increasingly, the rest of the world. Now off-the-shelf technology--Starlink terminals, plug-and-play nautical autopilots, high-resolution video cameras--may be advancing that cat-and-mouse game into a new phase. Uncrewed subs could move more cocaine over longer distances, and they wouldn't put human smugglers at risk of capture. And law enforcement around the world is just beginning to grapple with what this means for the future. This story is from the next print issue of magazine, which is all about crime. Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models--such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on--to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math.






DA T ASHEET: MOTIVE

Neural Information Processing Systems

Please see the most updated version here . Was there a specific task in mind? Was there a specific gap that needed to be filled? The MOTI VE dataset was created to promote the development of new drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction models based on both, existing relationships between compounds and their protein targets, and the similarity of JUMP Cell Painting morphological features of perturbed cells [2].The MOTI VE dataset was created with the DTI task in mind, and addresses a lack of graph-based biological datasets with empirical node features. Who created this dataset (e.g., which team, research group) and on behalf of which entity (e.g., company, institution, organization)? This dataset was created by the Carpenter-Singh Lab in the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. What support was needed to make this dataset? If there is an associated grant, provide the name of the grantor and the grant name and number, or if it was supported by a company or government agency, give those details.) The authors gratefully acknowledge an internship from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (to ES).