Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
This week’s top stories of the week include:
0:15 Teaching AI how to smell – Hearing and vision have already been digitized. But not smell. So Alex Wiltschko, a former Google researcher, launched a start-up to address this gap. Osmo breaks down smells into digital signatures. It can detect smells to a high degree of accuracy, across a range of items.
4:07 Oceans cross key climate limit – Acidity in the sea has reached hazardous levels. The authors of a major study led by the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the NOAA are sounding a red alert, calling the findings a ‘ticking timebomb’. But what causes ocean acidification? And what does it mean for ecosystems?
5:59 AI actors are on the rise – Today, AI can mimic human voices with uncanny levels of accuracy. This technology is putting voice actors in particular in a precarious position. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is from Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) says his members’ biggest worry about AI is their voices being cloned without their consent.
9:31 New suit for space exploration – It’s resistant to pressure and radiation like an ordinary spacesuit. But it’s supple, mobile and much less bulky, making it perfect for spacewalks on strange new terrains.
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