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This bizarre organism is missing huge amounts of genes. Spaghetti Yeerk

For years, researchers have known about a species of parasitic critters called hairworms that can "mind control" their host by hijacking their cognitive functions.

Now, it turns out the spaghetti-like organisms that spend almost their entire lives inside other animals' bodies have yet another peculiar claim to fame.

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Current Biology, hairworms lack a startling proportion of the genes researchers expected them to have which only adds to their already mystifying nature.

"What we found, which was very surprising, was that both hairworm genomes were missing about 30 percent of a set of genes that are expected to be present across basically all groups of animals," said Tauana Cunha, a postdoctoral researcher at Chicago's Field Museum and lead author of the study, in a statement about the findings.

Hairworms were already a bit of an oddball in the animal kingdom.

"One of the coolest things, maybe the thing that they are most known for, is that they can affect the behavior of their hosts and make them do things that they wouldn't do otherwise," Cunha enthused.

But as it turns out, that isn't the only quality that sets them apart. After analyzing and sequencing DNA samples from two hairworm species, Cunha and her colleagues found something astonishing.

"Cilia are organelles, small structures at the cellular level, that are basically present across all animals and even more broadly, in protists and some plants and fungi," Cunha explained. "So they're present across a large diversity of life on Earth."

The researchers concluded that hairworms likely don't have any cilia, since they don't have the "machinery to make cilia in the first place," as Cunha explained.

That means the researchers are now left with even more questions.How can hairworms survive without these near-ubiquitous biological features? Do they get by without them since they spend most of their lives living off their host?

It's a significant puzzle that'll require further research to solve. Cunha suggests we could compare the genes of these hairworms to other mind-controlling parasites to see if we can find some "similarities" a grisly subject matter that's as fascinating as it is gruesome.

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Brutal heat waves covering large swathes of world right now are forcing healthcare workers to come up with new ways to keep patients cool.

Several areas have hit record temperatures, as sweltering conditions continue across North America and Europe. Death Valley in Californiarecorded a "mind-boggling" 120 degrees Fahrenheit at 1am.

And the effects this heat is having on people's bodies are devastating. Some hospital staff are packing overheated patients in body bags with a bucket of ice to cool them down, The Wall Street Journal reports. Others have resorted to putting them in wet hospital gowns and sitting them in front of fans.

In more severe cases, patients are even showing up comatose, with doctors sometimes prolonging these comas to protect their brains a frightening reality of unprecedented heat surges that have already put millions at risk across the globe.

"Theyre coming in essentially unresponsive and theyre cooked," Aneesh Narang, an emergency medicine physician at Banner-University Medical Center in Phoenix, who had several patients come in with body temperatures as high as 109 Fahrenheit, told NBC last week.

The risks of excess exposure to extreme heat are significant. Symptoms can range from dizziness, nausea, and severe dehydration to comas and death. Heat strokes are particularly dangerous, and can even prove fatal.

Extreme heat can also mess with the body's innate coping mechanisms, like venting off heat by producing sweat.

"Youre kind of cooking from the inside, unfortunately," Narang told NBC.

Worse yet, the summer has only begun, and healthcare workers are worried about what 2023 still has in store for us.

"Were still early- to mid-July, and July and August are probably our two toughest months in this area," Narang added. "I anticipate things will get worse, unfortunately."

And that's without getting into every future summer.

More on extreme heat: Scientists Horrified as Sea Surface Temperatures Spike Off the Charts

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In an exclusive conversation with Euronews Next, will.i.am talks AI, the future of creativity, and his new AI-powered platform to co-pilot creation.

The epitome of a Renaissance Man, will.i.am (born William Adams), the prolific singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, producer, DJ, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, has added another feather to his cap: futurist.

And his latest endeavour serves as another testament to his forward-looking mindset.

The founding and lead member of the Black Eyed Peas has launched FYI (short for Focus Your Idea), billed as the first productivity tool designed to serve creatives first.

The FYI app is engineered to help creatives in a wide array of tasks, including AI-powered creative co-piloting, chatting with collaborators and team members, sharing photos, videos, audio files, and docs, as well as securing data with the most advanced end-to-end encryption.

Jonathan Mildenhall, former Chief Marketing Officer of Airbnb and co-founder and Chairman of TwentyFirstCenturyBrand, says he is particularly excited about the launch of FYI because it has a similar founding story to Airbnb.

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, the founders of Airbnb, were inspired to create their home renting platform when faced with a sudden rent increase for their New York City apartment. To overcome the financial challenge, they decided to rent out their spare bedroom, sparking the idea that would revolutionise the way people travel.

Similarly, Will, confronted with the limitations imposed by the pandemic and the lack of suitable tools for remote creative collaborations, decided to take matters into his own hands and embarked on a mission to find a solution - the answer was FYI.

Products out of necessity are a gift to the world, said Mildenhall, whos developing the brand strategy for FYI.

In the context of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, Euronews spoke to will.i.am about the potential and implications of the future of AI, music and creativity.

Camille Bello, Euronews: Will, who do you think will be using FYI?

will.i.am: So the creative community was working across six different tools up until FYI existed. We were on WhatsApp. To work off WhatsApp, you need a Dropbox. If your files were too big, you need to WeTransfer. But if you can't open it up on WhatsApp, you need to send that Wetransfer to emails, you need email, you need a calendar, and you need Zoom and then a chatGPT.

So you need seven things for creatives to get work done remotely on a phone on fire. For FYI you just need one tool called FYI.

The key ideal customer is the hyper-creative, the person that is ideating, putting teams together or small teams. And with AI, small teams become big teams.

CB: How is FYI different from the other language models, such as ChatGPT?

will.i.am: FYI a messenger first. It's a messenger with your file management and your digital asset management storage. [All] connected to the messenger, because why should your conversations around your digital assets, the projects that you're working on, be separate from where your teams and your communication plan strategy are?

So it's a messenger digital asset management file storage. It's a calendar, a music organiser, and a generative AI for team flow.

It's a messenger from the perspective of project-based collaboration, project-based ideation, and materialisation with AI to help you.

CB: Tell us about the algorithm behind FYI.

will.i.am: I can tell you about the work that we're doing with IBM as far as the business of creativity.

Right now, if you're creative and you have an idea that you want to start, but you want to protect that idea before you go, reach out to folks, that's kind of impossible.

[Especially] if you're from some inner city or some from some rural area or living in the suburbs.

And so on FYI - in collaboration with IBM and WatsonX - in the near future, you're going to be able to create a thread and evoke your FYI business agent to create an NDA to protect your ideawithout having to worry about how you find an attorney or afford an attorney to do the basic thing - that is protect and do business while you create.

First we're starting with basic NDA idea of protection, IP protection, and then will grow from there.

And we invite the creative community to be on the journey with us. The whole premise of the product is to champion the creative, support them, and protect them and their IP and their data by issuing elliptical curve cryptography keys that we worked with IBM to ensure that everything is protected. Soup to nuts.

CB: Amidst the ongoing debate on the convergence of AI and music, and in response to a fake Drake track, trip-hop collective Massive Attack tweeted: "Is the discussion 'should AI recreate music?' or is the discussion 'Why is contemporary music so homogenised & formulaic that it's really easy to copy?'

CB: What do you think of that?

will.i.am: For anything to get good at something, it has to reference and copy something. And AI is already great at mimicking paintings, illustrations, marketing plans, strategiesbut it also creates.

I've heard amazing creations that AI has made of music that sounds like something that I would have written, that sounds like me, and some people would be convinced that I did it, that I sung it. And it wasn't a recreation of something. It was something from scratch. And it will continue to get better. How do I feel about that? I feel that regulations need to be put in place around essence and likeness ASAP.

I urge every person that's working in the AI space, every person that works in governance and regulation and setting protection protocols for people and humanity: essence and likeness is importantFighting for people's likeness, people's essence, protecting people and their civil liberties and their communities. That is what we should be doing. We're not saying regulations to stop innovation. We're saying, I'm saying, regulations for people.

CB: Do you think it's a bit premature the way in which we are adopting artificial intelligence - before there is an actual regulation put in place that we can follow?

will.i.am: That's hard to say. That's like saying when the automobile was invented, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) was around. Fact is, no; That's like saying when the aeroplane was invented, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was already around. The answer is no. But now that there's flight, now that there's vehicles on the road, I think it's time for the Department of Motor Vehicles and the FAA to ensure people are safe and the communities that they live in.

CB: You come from a multicultural background. Are you concerned about the algorithm bias?

will.i.am: The only way to tackle bias is to have people from different communities and different backgrounds training data and writing algorithms. And I've been super passionate about this subject for the past decade-plus. That's why I have a school and a program in East Los Angeles, Boyle Heights, with todos los mexicanos de mi barrio, and we teach them computer science, robotics and programming so they can grow up and fill jobs that are needed to address data, biases and algorithmic biases. That is my core passion.

You can go out and ensure that companies address these biases. Or you can go out there and you could do work and adopt a school and encourage kids to go down this path.

And to the folks that are working in that space, it's not that they're malicious and they don't want people of colour to train models. It's set up from the school systems and the zoning from the get-go because there's not a computer science program in every school, but there's a basketball program or a football program or soccer program in every school, but no engineering or algorithmic programming or data training program mandatory in every school, inner city, rural area, poverty-stricken area, underdeveloped community, underserved community.

Is it the folks that made the model where they're like, mwahaha, we're not going to we don't want? No, that's not the case, there are engineering gaps.

The world needs more engineers. Where is the engineer going to come from?

Now there's engineering for engineering. Now there's an algorithm that can engineer for us, but that still doesn't address the data bias, that still doesn't address the algorithmic bias. So the only true way, like I said, is to have people of colour, black and brown and women and trans and gay and LGBTQ plus training models, writing algorithms. That's the only way. I started 12 years ago with 65 kids. Now we serve 14,000 students in L.A.

I put STEM programs in inner cities. That sounds like something to do. Why? Because they're not doing it. And when you don't have STEM programs in inner cities, you have data bias, algorithmic bias.

CB: Are you concerned about a future in which machines will be doing all the creative and fun work and humans just prompting machines?

will.i.am: No, because I believe in humanity's creativity, spontaneity, curiosity and competitiveness. I believe in that.

Just like calculators out-calculate mathematicians, that doesn't mean people aren't doing calculations. That doesn't mean people aren't building structures and, you know, working with advanced mathematical models. People are still thinking. People are still trying to solve problems. It's just an amazing tool. But that's not going to stop our innovative spirit, our ingenuity, inventions.

Right now, in popular culture, the word is innovation.Invention hasn't been said or talked about in a long time. This new renaissance is going to spark new inventions, not innovations. This next leap is like we're going to invent things. Not just innovate.

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Tesla has already made great strides when it comes to achieving mainstream acceptance of plug-in electric vehicles. Now, there are rumors that the EV manufacturer might be looking toward pioneering an even newer type of car: EVs that dont plug in at all.

Electrek reported that Tesla may be close to acquiring a German company called Wiferion that was founded in 2016 and focuses on creating inductive wireless charging for industrial robots and EVs.

While the deal is not done yet, Tesla has been named in an official filing. According to Business Insider (Google-translated from German), One of the Wiferion investors had confirmed the exit to an interesting buyer without naming a name. Tesla is likely to have paid at least a mid-to-high double-digit million amount for the Bavarian startup.

One issue with wireless charging is it has been much less efficient than plug-in charging. However, according to Electrek, the technology has been closing the gap in recent years, opening the door for this futuristic advancement.

Tesla appears to be winning its battle to make its charging port the dominant one in North America, but that could eventually prove irrelevant if wireless car charging becomes the way of the future.

Tesla teased the concept of a wireless home charging port at its most recent investor day, although there were no details provided at that time; the preview was just limited to a visual rendering of what such a device might look like.

Ive owned all EVs for nearly 3 years now and I still sometimes forget to plug in, wrote one commenter at that time. Having that wireless charger would be great if we can tell it we only need charging when the battery hits a certain customizable lower level (able to be overrode when necessary as we can now). Wed never even be able to leave home without at least enough juice for our commutes.

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Published July 21, 2023

ThePeptide Therapeutics Marketis estimated to be worth US$ 38.0 billion in 2023 and US$ 106.0 billion by 2033, growing at a remarkable CAGR of 10.8% from 2023 to 2033.

The globalPeptide Therapeutics Marketis projected to reach a valuation of US$ 47 Bn in 2025, with sales growing at a prolific CAGR of 11% from 2022 to 2025. Scaling up from an estimated value of US$ 34.4 Bn in 2022, the peptide therapeutics market is fuelled by the various benefits associated with the product. Peptide medicines have been used to treat metabolic illnesses for a very long time and will likely continue to do so over the forecasted period.

Owing to the benefits related to the consumption of peptide therapeutics as well as the products wide range of applications in pharmaceuticals and the biotechnology sector, the market outlook for peptide therapeutics is highly positive in the upcoming years. Manufacturers of peptide therapeutics have realized the vital role that the product can play in meeting unfulfilled medical needs.

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Further, peptide therapeutics can be a preferred alternative to small molecule and biological therapeutics. All of these factors have led to an upsurge in research and investments in peptide drug recovery over the last ten years and is expected to bode well for the future prospects of the market.

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In a moderately competitive market, major players are concentrating on market expansion activities. These organizations are engaging in distribution agreements, white space exploration, and collaborative ventures. The more established businesses are focusing on working with local players in order to expand their production capacities and improve their regional presence.

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In India, the peptide therapeutics market is anticipated to gain many profitable future prospects. The rising adoption of synthetic peptide drugs in India is likely to propel the market growth in this region. Rising incidences of chronic illnesses and an ageing population also contribute to the market growth.

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Solar panels on roofs are becoming a popular option for homeowners looking to save money on their energy bills. Teslas Solar Roof takes it one step further and is actually creating income for some people.

The sharp rise in electricity prices has been shocking homeowners across the U.S. In 2022, consumers paid 14.3% more for electricity on average than they did the previous year and experts project the cost of electricity to continue its ascent.

Teslas Solar Roof, combined with its Powerwall, gives homeowners a chance to be completely energy-independent turning homes into a virtual power plant that can pay back some of the installation costs.

Unlike traditional solar panels typically installed on top of your existing roof Teslas Solar Roof is a complete replacement for your current roof. If youre building a new home or looking to replace your roof, the Solar Roof is a terrific, sustainable option.

At first glance, the Solar Roof looks like a fairly normal roof, but if you look closely, you can see its a combination of glass solar tiles and steel roofing tiles.

The Powerwall is an integrated battery system that stores solar and other energy for later use. When paired with the Solar Roof, the dynamic duo captures all the suns energy during the day and keeps it for you to use at night.

For a fantastic example of a Solar Roof, head to the Big Island of Hawaii. Installed by Rising Sun Solar a major Tesla partner in Hawaii one home has an enormous 50kW Solar Roof.

The average U.S. home uses about 30kW per day, so 50kW is a solid amount of energy to power a home.

The homeowner is part of the Swell Energy Home Battery Rewards Program, which takes energy collected by the Solar Roof and sends it back to the power grid. The program will earn the homeowner about $350 a month for five years totaling $21,000.

But before you start ripping shingles off your roof, you should know that this is an expensive option. Its difficult to nail down a price for the Solar Roof due to many variables, but one estimate done by Forbes has a 2,000-square-foot, two-story house costing around $64,000.

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Dont sweat it if youve been spending all your money on eggs lately plenty of less expensive solar options are available.

Solar power is an excellent way to ease the pain of rising electricity bills, and its becoming cheaper and more accessible. Since 2011, the cost of solar power has gone down by almost 90%. Plus, federal tax credits can cover up to 26% of installation.

Solar panels can also pay off if you sell your home. A study by Zillow shows that homes with solar panels sell for 4.1% more than homes without solar power.

Teslas Solar Roof is a sleek-looking option for those who can afford it, but solar power, in general, is a fantastic option for anyone wanting to cut down on their electricity costs while switching to a clean energy power source.

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"I'm just trying not to fall off this rover." Strong Arms

A new reality TV show is challenging an unlikely group of celebrities to survive in a simulated Mars habitat and by the looks of it, it's playing out in an absolutely unhinged way.

The sixth episode of Fox's "Stars on Mars," which aired earlier this week, saw reality TV personality and former "The Bachelor" contestant Ashley Iaconetti team up with cycling champion Lance Armstrong we promise this bizarre pairing is just the beginning of the weirdness to plug holes in the habitat by, well, holding their hands against the hole for extended periods of time. Look, nobody expected this show to be scientifically accurate, OK?

"Unfortunately got stuck standing in front of two holes that were not anywhere near each other," Armstrong lamented in a promotional clip shared by Fox last week. "How did I get this one? This sucks."

"I'm just trying not to fall off this rover," NBA all-star Paul Pier said as he was plugging two separate holes with his gloved hands.

The show, which is being hosted by none other than "Star Trek" legend anddepressed space tourist William Shatner, is a mystifying cultural artifact.

Its bizarre mashup of B-and-C-list celebrities, including UFC champion Ronda Rousey, "Real Housewives of Atlanta" reality star Porsha Williams Guobadia, comedian Natasha Leggero, and Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon compete every week as they try to secure a future place in the simulated habitat.

As you'd expect, there's plenty of drama, with "Modern Family" star Ariel Winter butting heads with Lance Armstrong over his anti-trans comments about trans athletes.

Several celebrities took sides with Winter, bringing Armstrong close to the point of volunteering to leave the show.

In short, it's exactly the kind of drama you'd expect from a reality TV show that pits a group of celebrities against each other in a closed-off environment.

And we're just watching with glee as the chaos ensues.

More on the show: New Show Traps Lance Armstrong and Ariel Winter in Simulated Mars Base

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"I call it the dot AI bubble, and it hasnt even started yet." Dot AI Bubble

There's a tremendous amount of hype surrounding AI, with investors pouring billions of dollars into burgeoning AI startups as they hope to catch the next big tech wave.

But not everybody believes the trend will stick around for long. Even Emad Mostaque, the CEO of open-source AI company Stability AI which is behind the immensely popular image generator Stable Diffusion is afraid the industry will collapse like a house of cards.

"I think this will be the biggest bubble of all time," Mostaque told banking analysts on a call last week, as quoted by CNBC, explaining that the tech isn't ready for the financial industry just yet.

"I call it the dot AI bubble, and it hasnt even started yet," he added.

But should we really take Mostaque at his word? Why would an AI CEO of his stature tell investors that AI is a bubble? Besides, just three months ago, Mostaque took a very different tack, adamantly telling the audience at a conference that "of course" AI isn't a bubble and that it's "bigger than 5G or self-driving cars."

So which is it?

The CEO's many colorful claims have drawn plenty of scrutiny. According to a Forbes profile published last month, Mostaque has made misleading claims, down to the fact that he never got a master's degree from Oxford. He also reportedly misled investors and bolstered his success with "exaggeration and dubious claims," the publication claimed.

While Mostaque has since denied these claims, it feels like important context for his latest prognostication. Even if the rsum stuff is a misunderstanding, should we really be listening to a CEO who says he"missed the ceremony and didnt send the form" to receive his diploma from Oxford?

Ironically, Mostaque has raised over $100 million from investors, according to CNBC, which would mean heappears to be a significant contributor to the growing AI bubble himself which raises the question: why is he raising funds for an industry that he thinks could eventually collapse in on itself?

It's difficult to reconcile the opinion that AI is "the biggest bubble of all time," while also telling investors last week that AI needs an investment of $1 trillion "because its more important than 5G as infrastructure for knowledge."

Are we at the precipice of a huge opportunityor the biggest money pit of all time?

There's a good chance that Mostaque is simply hedging his bets to appease investors. After all, you can't be wrong if you maintain that any outcome is possible.

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Elon Musk, the omnipotent ruler of the Twitterverse, has chimed in and has decreed that the actual physical universe is "possibly" twice as old as we think it is.

Make of that what you will.

Musk was responding to noted misinformation peddler and comedian Joe Rogan, who linked to a press release about a controversial new paper that indeed suggests the universe could be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice as the general consensus among scientists.

The irreverent tech CEO also chimed in on another topic that's arguably far outside of his wheelhouse, concluding that "dark matter is what seems most sketch to me."

The research Rogan was alluding to suggests that an almost 100-year-old theory by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky about light losing energy over billions of light-years may have been partially correct.

In a recent paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, University of Ottawa astronomer Rajendra Gupta took Zwicky's theory and coupled them with existing theories surrounding the expansion of the universe. He also introduced new cosmological constants that could explain the laws that govern particle interactions.

As a result, according to Gupta's calculations, the universe could be much older than generally thought.

Zwicky, as it so happens, was also one of the earliest astrophysicists to suggest the existence of unseen mass he called "dark matter" after coming up with his tired light theory, a hypothetical form of unseen matter that is thought to make up much of the total universe. Dark matter is still generally accepted by the broader scientific community.

While Musk was more open-minded about Gupta's theory, invisible matter that makes up most of the universe was clearly a step too far. Fortunately, the CEO had some well-meaning experts help him clear up his confusion surrounding "sketch" dark matter.

"Hi, I'm a dark matter physicist!" cosmologistSophia Gad-Nasr chimed in. "We have lots of evidence for dark matter. A big one is the Cosmic Microwave Background, which has dark matter encoded into it."

"It is also necessary to explain the large scale structure we see in the Universe because there needs to be a type of matter that could clump together and form seeds early enough for the galaxies we see today, which regular matter couldn't do because of radiation pressure," she added.

Gad-Nasr called Gupta's eyebrow-raising theory that the universe is actually twice as old "far less plausible" since it "challenges very well-established theories" and would "require a lot of evidence to back it."

In short, we're glad we've got experts like Gad-Nasr are still sticking around on Twitter. Otherwise, we'd risk people actually taking Musk and Rogan by their word and that's rarely ever a good idea.

But, to be fair, there's still a chance that Musk may end up to be rightfully skeptical. After all, "our current picture of physics is certainly incomplete," as the cosmologist admitted in a follow-up. "That's what makes the field so exciting."

More on the research: Scientist Claims Universe Is Twice as Old as We Thought

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"I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn't listen." Fair Warning

Fresh on the heels of his lamentations about the imploded submersible, "Titanic" director James Cameron is going for the "I told you so" one-two punch with his repeated warnings about artificial intelligence.

In an interview with CTV, the Canada-born director said that he attempted to bring his fears about AI to the forefront nearly 40 years ago with his first "Terminator" film, to no avail.

"I warned you guys in 1984," Cameron said, "and you didn't listen."

The director toldCTV that he "absolutely" shares concerns with AI experts about the technology's vast potential for harm.

"I think the weaponization of AI is the biggest danger," Cameron told the Canadian broadcaster. "I think that we will get into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI, and if we don't build it, the other guys are for sure going to build it, and so then it'll escalate."

Cameron identified two equally-dangerous schools of AI thought: those who are "teaching greed" and using the technology for unfettered profit, and those who are "teaching paranoia" and want to use it in the interest of national or self-defense.

"You could imagine an AI in a combat theatre," he continued, "the whole thing just being fought by the computers at a speed humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to de-escalate."

It's clear that the director has AI on the brain, given that the latest installment in the "Terminator" franchise that he's currently working on centers around the kinds of real-world algorithms currently deployed by companies like OpenAI.

ChatGPT as a tool of dystopian fiction isn't the only use case he's worried about, though he admits that the tech isn't nearly up to snuff to replace human creatives anytime soon.

"Let's wait 20 years," he quipped, "and if an AI wins an Oscar for Best Screenplay, I think we've got to take them seriously."

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