Scientists have unveiled a hybrid computer made of electronics and human brain-like tissues called'Brainoware.' It's part of a growing field called biological computing. The new technology features a brain'organoid' made of human stem cells which sit atop a circuit board that feeds the organoid information and reads its responses. This biological-electronic hybrid was able to identify people's by voice and make predictions about a complex math problem. The researchers claim the discovery represents a significant step toward hybrid computers, which merge man and machine to perform complex computing problems using a fraction of the power needed by conventional computers.

Veritone CEO Ryan Steelberg says the Writers Guild needs to make sure its writers are protected as AI becomes more popular. While watching a film, viewers might ponder its legitimacy, questioning if what they're seeing on screen can happen in real life. Artificial intelligence is no different. AI is being heavily developed and utilized now to edit and amplify films, but the depths of its use has also been explored in futuristic, science-fiction movies like "The Matrix" or "I, Robot." With the rise of AI platforms, including ChatGPT, AI appears to be infiltrating every industry.

The outlier, however, for ChatGPT is Appendix F, based on the prompt to generate variants on poetry dedicated to Turing. In this instance, the generated content bypassed Open AI's detector with high confidence as real (99.98%). In their original report [24], the authors found "detection rates of ~95% for detecting 1.5B GPT-2-generated text" and noted that "We believe this is not high enough accuracy for standalone detection and needs to be paired with metadata-based approaches, human judgment, and public education to be more effective." Like the evolution of ever larger language models (>100 billion), refinements also have built-in heuristics or guardrails for model execution. The Instruct-series of GPT-3 demonstrated the ability to answer questions directly without conversational meanderings. The ChatGPT includes longer-term conversational memory, such that the API can track the dialog even with leaps of narration that single API calls could not span. One can test dialogs with impersonal pronouns like "it" carrying forward in the conversation with context to previous API calls in a single session-one easily grasped example for ChatGPT's API memory as both powerful and expensive to encode for more extended conversations. As Turing himself posed the human capacity to list memories [1]: "Actual human computers really remember what they have to do Constructing instruction tables is usually described as'programming.'"

Originally published on Towards AI the World's Leading AI and Technology News and Media Company. If you are building an AI-related product or service, we invite you to consider becoming an AI sponsor. At Towards AI, we help scale AI and technology startups. Let us help you unleash your technology to the masses. From Wall-E to Star Wars' R2D2, our understanding of artificial intelligence has been shaped by the fantastical ideas put forth in science fiction, which tends to portray a futuristic world with flying cars and robotic sidekicks -- a world that man and machine inhabit in concert.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk, one of the masterminds behind projects such as Tesla and SpaceX, announced his next venture, namely Neuralink. The company aims to merge humans with electronics, creating what Musk calls the neural lace. It is a device that injected into the jugular vein would reach the brain and then unfold into a network of electrical connections connected directly to human neurons. The idea is to develop enhanced brain-computer interfaces to increase the extent to which the biological brain can interact and communicate with external computers. The neural lace will go down to the level of brain neurons: it will be a mesh that will be able to connect directly to brain matter and then connect with a computer. That human being will be a cyborg.

Striking a balance between technical skill and inspired creative flair is often a crucial aim when trying to launch a career as a composer. Too technical, and your work runs the risk of being perceived as soulless. But, if your music is too untethered from convention, loose, and pigeon-hole evading, then you'll have a much harder time finding listeners. This is doubly true when it comes to the world of professional soundtracking. Very often, those working in the soundtracking domain are provided with a brief (or pitch to one).

It is now 13 years since Harry Parker stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, creating a blast that would result in the loss of both legs. Alongside the physical pain of the subsequent weeks, months and years, he also had to cope with a profound change in his sense of self. He compares the experience to that of Gregor Samsa, the subject of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis – "the strangeness of not being who you used to be, turned into something that sets you apart from those around you". Equipped with two hi-tech prosthetic limbs, Parker can now walk holding hands with his wife and carry his children on his shoulders. From the outside, it would be easy to conclude that he has adapted extraordinarily well to the event – and he says that "being an amputee feels normal".

On November 19, Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration, visited the Matrice innovation institute to sign an agreement with Bruno Sportisse of Inria to create a laboratory dedicated to artificial intelligence. Called LaborIA and operated by Matrice, this resource and experimentation centre will have the mission of "better understanding artificial intelligence and its effects on work, employment, skills and social dialogue in order to develop business practices and public action". According to the OECD's 2019 Employment Outlook report, medium-skilled jobs are increasingly exposed to profound transformations. Over the next 15 to 20 years, the development of automation could lead to the disappearance of 14% of current jobs, and another 32% are likely to be profoundly transformed. The report states that the future of work is in our hands and will depend, to a large extent, on the public policy choices countries make.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged just about every business and industry over the past 18 months or so, but it has also given businesses a great opportunity to expand their organizational intelligence and decision-making, speakers said during today's opening keynote of the 25th annual KM World conference, which this year is being held virtually. It is within this unsteady business climate that companies need to place a premium on intuition and experiential learning, said Jay Liebowitz, a visiting professor at the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the main keynote speaker. He also emphasized the need for companies need to react more quickly and collaboratively. A big part of that is creating greater synergies between corporate knowledge and other technologies and processes, Liebowitz said. For knowledge management to survive, it needs to continue to learn and borrow from other technologies, like cognitive computing, analytics, process mining, and strategic intelligence, Liebowitz said.

Earlier this year, my co-author, Malay Upadhyay, and I released our new book, The AI Dilemma, a leadership guide to assess enterprise AI maturity and explore AI's impact in diverse industries. Over the past year, during COVID-19, I have been writing a series of blogs for CEOs and Board Directors and executive leadership teams to advance their knowledge in AI having develop a comprehensive AI set of skills that I called The Brain Trust. Over fifty skills were defined with examples of AI innovations. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Why I have been writing these blogs is to drive an increased sense of urgency of board directors and leadership teams to internalize that human civilization as we know it is changing at a clip that is unprecedented in human history.