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News Bites: From Neuralink to Netflix’s 3 Body Problem

Neuralink Implant. On January 29, Elon Musk, cofounder of Neuralink, shared the news that the first Neuralink implant has been placed inside a human’s skull with promising results. The stated goal is to give recipients the ability to control a computer with their brain. Musk has been criticized for lack of transparency and for releasing the news on his social media platform. (For more, see “Elon Musk Says the First Human Has Received an Implant from Neuralink, but Other Details Are Scant” from the Associated Press.)

New Artificial Intelligence Text-to-Video Generator.

On February 15, OpenAI previewed their new text-tovideo generator called Sora, which makes brief realistic videos based on just a few words of text. According to a statement on their website, as a safeguard they are “building tools to help detect misleading content such as a detection classifier that can tell when a video was generated by Sora.” (For more, see “Sora Is ChatGPT Maker OpenAI’s New Text-To-Video Generator” by the Associated Press.)

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