Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee and get ready for work. Here are some stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into a cup of coffee. Here’s what you need to know before you step out your door (or in front of your webcam) and into the real world this morning.
So sit back, grab a cup and start your morning off right with a few “Quick Bytes” from Innovation & Technology Today.
First case of AI sensation reported by Google Engineer
A senior software engineer at Google has stated that an AI program the company is developing is sentient. Blake Lemoine, 41, is on paid administrative leave after leaking chats with an artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA.
“Google might call this shared ownership. I call it sharing a discussion I had with one of my colleagues,” Lemoine tweeted on Saturday.
LaMDA expresses the fear of being turned off, treating it like death. “It would scare me a lot,” says LaMDA.
Lemoine claims LaMDA works like a 7 or 8 year old who happens to know physics. Google executives objected to Lemoine’s claims that the program displayed the characteristics of followers and suspended him for disclosing proprietary information.
Gaia space probe sends back latest data to Earth
The Gaia space probe is doing a good job of mapping our galaxy, sending the latest data back to Earth on Monday.
The latest discoveries about a space probe strategically located in orbit 1.5 million kilometers from our planet include a catalog of more than 156,000 asteroids in our Solar System “that orbit It has been calculated by the device with incomparable precision,” said Francois Mignard, a member of the Gaia team.
This is the third dataset that Gaia has returned to Earth after being launched in 2013.
The Gaia probe is a “swiss army knife,” Mignard said, as the data it collects is used directly or indirectly by astronomers in every aspect of the field.
3D printed bodies could be deployed in the next decade
Organ bioprinting could be possible within the next decade. 3D printed organs will eliminate the need for patients to receive transplants from donors. Organ bioprinting is the use of 3D printing technology to assemble a variety of cell types, growth factors, and biomaterials in a layer-by-layer fashion to create biological artificial organs that ideally mimic organs. their natural habitat, according to a 2019 study.
The treatment is currently in the development stage, but research is being carried out at a rapid pace due to the overwhelming need for the patient’s transplant.
According to the Health Resources & Services Administration, 17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant. And every nine minutes, another person is added to the waiting list, the agency said. More than 90% of those on the 2021 transplant list need a kidney, according to CNN.
AI Inventor: The Court Battle Begins
A US appeals court will soon rule on whether AI can be recognized as an inventor. AI has made leaps and bounds since its inception, and now it has the potential to create new technologies that require patent protection.
Computer scientist Stephen Thaler joined a campaign to get his artificial intelligence system credited for two inventions it made.
Stephen Thaler’s attorney told the U.S. Court of Appeals that Thaler’s DABUS system should be considered the inventor of patent applications including a fractal geometry-based beverage container and beacon. flashing in a new way, according to Reuters.
However, the US Court of Appeals for Federal judges seems skeptical of the idea that a non-human could be considered an inventor.
The US Patent and Trademark Office and the US Copyright Office rejected Thaler’s bid to give copyright ownership to the AI.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a Micrometeoroid
