Blog

June 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

June 25, 2023: Lessons from 2001: A Space Odyssey Why did the HAL 9000 AGI run amok aboard the Discovery One spaceship on its way to Jupiter?

June 19, 2023: Delayed myocarditis Healthy 24-year-old man develops myocarditis three months after a second dose of the Moderna vaccine.

June 13, 2023: Transforming Dermatology ChatGPT is transforming biomedical fields with its real-world applications.

June 12, 2023: New-onset acute psychosis A Case report published today describes new-onset acute psychosis as a manifestation of lupus cerebritis following concomitant COVID-19 infection and vaccination.

June 10, 2023: Hallucinations in NLG Natural Language Generation Models can generate hallucinated texts. Diverse mitigation strategies have been proposed.

June 9, 2023: AI Transformers for Biomedicine Over 100 pretrained models based on transformer architectures have been utilized in medical domain.

June 8, 2023: Diabetes genes A study published today in Nature Genetics has identified nine new candidate genes associated with diabetes.

June 7, 2023: Wastewater Epidemiology WBE holds the potential to revolutionize public health, enhance environmental monitoring, and promote a more sustainable and equitable future.

June 5, 2023: Coding with ChatGPT Tips for coding with ChatGPT and related tools based on large language models.

June 4, 2023: AI in Elderly Healthcare As we move forward, we need to develop AI technologies that are inclusive, fair, and ethical, ensuring that they truly meet the needs of older adults.

June 2, 2023: The Making of ChatGPT ChatGPT was developed in two phases: pre-training and fine-tuning.

June 2, 2023: EBV reactivation We discuss two case reports suggesting a potential link between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation and COVID-19 vaccination

0 Comments

May 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

0 Comments

May 30, 2023: Accelerating Knowledge Innovation New review of reviews illustrates that ChatGPT is expanding into different domains, paving the way for a future where knowledge creation is accelerated, insights are amplified, and breakthroughs are within closer reach.

May 29, 2023: Chatting about ChatGPT From myths and fairytales to science and statistics, ChatGPT showcased exceptional proficiency, able to tackle diverse subjects and chat about a wide variety of topics.

May 22, 2023: Exploring the Potential of Bioactive Textiles Human Health and Safety can be enhanced through Innovative Fabric Solutions.

May 20, 2023: Parsonage-Turner syndrome Parsonage-Turner syndrome, also known as acute brachial neuritis, is a rare condition characterized by sudden-onset shoulder pain and weakness. New paper reports a case of Parsonage-Turner syndrome triggered by booster COVID-19 vaccination.

May 15, 2023: Resilience to Alzheimer's Study Reveals Gene Variant that Counters Effects of Genetic Mutation in Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

May 9, 2023: Depression AI With improved sensors and AI algorithms, wearable AI technology for detecting and predicting depression could eventually be used in clinical practice.

May 4, 2023: An update on COVID-19 Nobody is counting vaccine doses anymore. But COVID-19 is still here, and there are breakthrough COVID-19 reports even after the 7th dose.

May 1, 2023: Brain decoder A study published today in journal Nature introduced a non-invasive semantic decoder based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Generative Pre-trained Transformer.

0 Comments

April 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

1 Comment

April 28, 2023: ChatGPT as a coauthor? With at least seven authorship credits on preprints and published scientific articles and multiple mentions in Acknowlegments and Methods sections, ChatGPT is taking the world by storm

April 17, 2023: Ulcerative Colitis triggered by breakthrough COVID-19 Even asymptomatic breakthrough COVID-19 can be associated with severe UC

April 10, 2023: Hearing Aid Research Given the limited research on OTC hearing aids, it is crucial to prioritize independent research.

April 6, 2023: Autobrewery Microbiome Autobrewery Syndrome (ABS) is as a disorder of microbial dysbiosis.

April 5, 2023: AI vs sonographers AI was more efficient and more accurate than sonographers in making initial assessments of echocardiograms and in making corrections to those assessments.

April 4, 2023: Neuroinflammatory VAEs Viruses and their vaccines may unmask CNS neuroinflammatory conditions.

April 1, 2023: From Laughs to Inspiration Keeping an eye on April Fool's jokes can be a fun way to stay up-to-date with the latest trends in tech, while also potentially discovering new ideas and concepts that could shape the future of innovation.

1 Comment

Sorry, I didn't quite get that

0 Comments

Sorry, I didn't quite get that, try again. The holy grail of AI researchers is to fully understand human languages. Were are we now in 2020?

0 Comments

Technologies you wish existed: April 1 2019

1 Comment

Science fiction stories and April fool jokes often describe speculative technology we wish existed in our world. Here are a few such devices in today's fake news announcements.

New AI chip will feature enormous memory capacity and remarkable performance with patent-pending OxygenBurst™ technology keeping it from overheating. The architecture for this chip was inspired by an area rug the founder of this company bought in the eighties. Early tests show that the chip could speed through a million-sized data set when training, almost like it dumps the data before training completes. When shown a picture of a girl named “Nikki”, it mistakenly labeled it “Micki”. Yet, it was able to accurately identify applesauce with cinnamon sprinkles, even though it was mixed with a pale, watery piece of turkey breast and soggy vegetables on a Styrofoam lunch tray.

For All Fool's day of 1931, The Los Angeles Times ran a front-page "exclusive" reporting that Hamburg scientist Dr. Eugene Lirpa had discovered good health to be caused by a bacteria, "Bacillus sanitatis." Sick people that were lacking this "germ of health," could be cured simply by breathing in the same air as healthy people. Now everyone is talking about good bacteria and fecal microbial transplants from healthy individuals. Perhaps one day "good" microbial transplants could be really delivered by inhalers?

In 2004, Norway's Aftenposten posted a plan by government health authorities to implant electronic id chips under skin to better monitor peoples' medical needs. This was another April's fool, but chips like this - e.g. to monitor brain injury - are already being tested. Implanted chips are used by some employers to let their employees open doors, log in to computers and purchase food.
In 1925, Hugo Gernsback invented the concept of the “teledactyle” that would allow doctors not only to see their patients through a view screen but also touch them from miles away with spindly robot arms.

Telemedicine use has grown in recent years, although many still don't believe in automated and delivered remotely healthcare.

We still prefer a human connection, as health care information technology giant Epic suggested in their 2017 April fool's joke: unveiling "Epic TinDr," an app to allow patients and physicians to select one another with Tinder-style instant falling in love. And we may even prefer some of our health records to self-destruct - as in "Snapchart" suggested by health coaching app Twine Health “ - before they are collected by Facebook.
On April 1 2019, healthcare blog announced that Facebook formally entered the EMR business. But it's not a joke - according to some sources, Facebook planned to collect information about age, diseases, prescribed medications and visits to the hospitals. This data could be combined with all health-related information that Facebook already captured about its users.

Broom, mop and cloth. Cleaning tools every home needs. Of course, you can make cleaning easier with a microfiber cloth and delegate floor cleaning to a robot mop, but you'll still have to clean small objects and patterned carpets manually with more conventional tools. This April, Google offers a new smartphone screen cleaning app. With just a push of a button, this tool will wash away all smudges on the mobile phone screen and freshen it up with a pineapple scent. This feature uses a Smudge Detector API utilizing "geometric dirt models" and "haptic micromovement generator" to clean and form a "long-lasting" dirt shield around the phone afterwards.
Science fiction authors were describing future without tedious tasks such as cleaning since 19th century. WAL-E (2008) - microbe obliterator (in the picture) was identifying dirty areas on its own, scrubbing anything and everything until it was sparkling clean. On April 1st of 2004, BMW announced a new self-cleaning car with "microscopic blowholes" clearing dust and insects. Neal Stephenson 1995 book The Diamond Age described gloves "constructed of infinitesimal fabricules that knew how to eject dirt". Not really a science fiction now, as prototype nano-enhanced textiles were able to clean themselves with light back in 2016.

Humans were always dreaming of better transportation. In 2016, Tesla announced its first flying car Tesla shocks the world by announcing its first flying car, the Model F. EDIT. In 2012, Google announced Click-to-Teleport technology allowing potential customers to instantly teleport to the business location directly from a search ad in a matter of seconds. But it's hard to keep up with imagination of science fiction writers and producers of Hollywood movies. And each year technology jokes seem to get feebler and less exciting. Maybe next year?

REFERENCES

Samuel R. Anderson et al. Robust Nanostructured Silver and Copper Fabrics with Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Property for Effective Visible Light Induced Reductive Catalysis, Advanced Materials Interfaces (2016). DOI: 10.1002/admi.201500632

Karim et al Nanostructured silver fabric as a free-standing NanoZyme for colorimetric detection of glucose in urine
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956566318301970

Photocatalysis and self-cleaning from g-C3N4 coated cotton fabrics under sunlight irradiation Y Fan, J Zhou, J Zhang, Y Lou, Z Huang, Y Ye… - Chemical Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier

1 Comment

<<Previous

AURAMETRIX

June 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

May 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

April 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

Sorry, I didn't quite get that

Technologies you wish existed: April 1 2019

Archives

Categories

Environment
Irritable Bowel
Olfactics
Technologies

AURAMETRIX

June 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

May 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

April 2023 Articles from Aurametrix

Sorry, I didn't quite get that

Technologies you wish existed: April 1 2019

Archives

Categories

EnvironmentIrritable BowelOlfacticsTechnologies

Environment
Irritable Bowel
Olfactics
Technologies