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Sep 5, 2024

AI-Assisted Police Reports and the Challenge of Generative Suspicion

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI

This article delves into a transformative shift in the criminal justice system brought on by the use of AI-assisted police reports.


Police reports play a central role in the criminal justice system. Many times, police reports exist as the only official memorialization of what happened during an incident, shaping probable cause determinations, pretrial detention decisions, motions to suppress, plea bargains, and trial strategy. For over a century, human police officers wrote the factual narratives that shaped the trajectory of individual cases and organized the entire legal system.

All that is about to change with the creation of AI-assisted police reports. Today, with the click of a button, generative AI Large Language Models (LLMS) using predictive text capabilities can turn the audio feed of a police-worn body camera into a pre-written draft police report. Police officers then fill-in-the blanks of inserts and details like a “Mad Libs” of suspicion and submit the edited version as the official narrative of an incident.

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Sep 5, 2024

Common yellow food dye can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, study finds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

In H.G. Wells’ 1,897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light.

More than 100 years later, scientists have discovered a real-life version of the substance: A commonly used food coloring can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, allowing scientists to see its organs function, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science.

The breakthrough could revolutionize biomedical research and, should it be successfully tested in humans, have wide-ranging applications in medicine and health care, such as making veins more visible to draw blood.

Sep 5, 2024

100-fold Improvement in Sight Seen After Gene Therapy Trial

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The vision of people with a rare inherited condition that causes them to lose much of their sight early in childhood was 100 times better after they received gene therapy to address the genetic mutation causing it. Some patients even experienced a 10,000-fold improvement in their vision after receiving the highest dose of the therapy, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who co-led the clinical trial published in The Lancet.

“That 10,000-fold improvement is the same as a patient being able to see their surroundings on a moonlit night outdoors as opposed to requiring bright indoor lighting before treatment,” said the study’s lead author, Artur Cideciyan, Ph.D., a research professor of Ophthalmology and co-director of the Center for Hereditary Retinal Degenerations.

“One patient reported for the first time being able to navigate at midnight outdoors only with the light of a bonfire.”

Sep 5, 2024

Robots Are Coming to the Kitchen. What Does This Mean for Everyday Life?

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Can automated restaurants still be community and cultural spaces, or will they become feeding stations for humans? These and other questions loom as new food tech reaches the market.

Sep 5, 2024

Chickadee research finds cognitive skills impact lifespan

Posted by in category: neuroscience

While there is no denying ‘survival of the fittest’ still reigns supreme in the animal kingdom, a new study shows being smartest—or at least smarter—is pretty important, too.

Sep 5, 2024

The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Here’s who made the 2024 TIME100 AI list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence.

Sep 5, 2024

Decoding the language of cells with the power of proteomics

Posted by in category: futurism

Hundreds of millions of years ago, single cells joined forces to become multicellular organisms. At the foundation of this multicellular world is the cell surface: the plasma membrane surrounding each cell, where individual units meet and communicate with one another using a language made up of molecules and proteins.

Sep 5, 2024

Quark distribution in light–heavy mesons is mapped using innovative calculations

Posted by in categories: innovation, particle physics

Form factors can be tested by collider experiments.

Sep 5, 2024

DARPA Robotic Satellite Servicing

Posted by in categories: climatology, robotics/AI, satellites

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an interagency agreement to collaborate on a satellite servicing demonstration in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where hundreds of satellites provide communications, meteorological, national security, and other vital functions.

Under this agreement, NASA will provide subject matter expertise to DARPA’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program to help complete the technology development, integration, testing, and demonstration. The RSGS servicing spacecraft will advance in-orbit satellite inspection, repair, and upgrade capabilities.

Sep 5, 2024

Tesla’s AI roadmap gives a glimpse into the company’s future

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

It reaffirms Tesla’s goal to launch the company’s self-driving technology in two new markets early next year.

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