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It is true that the next pandemic is a matter of “when,” not “if.” The statistical certainty of a future pandemic has led to increasing research into potential pandemic pathogens so that we may create lifesaving countermeasures. Such research, unfortunately, also carries a risk of bringing about exactly what it seeks to prevent. Human error or even deliberate action is as likely to be the cause of the next pandemic as natural origin. Such concerns have intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, which a significant percentage of the US population, at least, believes began with a research accident, one of the two main pandemic origin theories, with the other being the jump of a virus from animals to people. The question then for governments and the research community is how to build confidence in the valuable work that scientists do through appropriate regulation.

While research with favorable risk-benefit profiles must be facilitated, high-risk research of either limited benefits or benefits for only a limited few must be seen through a different regulatory lens.

Marco Di Lucca shared a closer look at his latest digital human, created for NVIDIA’s Computex 2024 keynote.

Several passengers on a United Airlines flight from Vancouver, Canada, to Houston, Texas, fell sick on Friday, with officials explaining that 75 passengers came from a cruise.

The recent discovery of a complete Genyornis newtoni skull has given scientists their first face-to-face encounter with the extinct, massive ‘thunder bird.’

Experiments comparing neutron-rich cadmium with previous data on a neutron-poor version prove that a key parameter in nuclear calculations depends on the neutron-to-proton ratio.

The Transforming AI panel from GTC 2024 features the authors of “Attention Is All You Need,” the groundbreaking paper that introduced the transformer neural network architecture. Transformers have since dominated all areas of AI, revolutionizing the industry. The discussion covers the following topics: ▫️ The development and impact of the Transformer model. ▫️ The evolution of computing and its democratization. ▫️ The future of AI technology and its potential applications. ▫️ The role of accelerated computing. ▫️ The potential for AI to revolutionize various industries. ▫️ The need for new data and learning techniques in AI development. Feature panel host: ▫️ Jensen Huang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, NVIDIA Panelists: ▫️ Ashish Vaswani, Co-Founder and CEO, Essential AI ▫️ Noam Shazeer, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Character. AI ▫️ Jakob Uszkoreit, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inceptive ▫️ Llion Jones, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Sakana AI ▫️ Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cohere ▫️ Lukasz Kaiser, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI ▫️ Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol Explore more GTC 2024 sessions like this on NVIDIA On-Demand: https://nvda.ws/3U33qo Read and subscribe to the NVIDIA Technical Blog: https://nvda.ws/3XHae9F 00:00 Introduction 11:00 Panelist Discussion #GTC24 #NVIDIA #GTC #AI #GenAI #Generative AI #Transformers #FutureOfAI

The author and National Geographic fellow shared on Instagram that “gardening is much better than joining any gym”

The explorer and educator, 63, dubbed the outdoor activity as “the best longevity exercise you could do”

Buettner has become well known for his research into five “blue” zones across the world where inhabitants regularly live well into their old age.

The AI Factory is revolutionizing the industry by creating a new commodity of extraordinary value through the development of NIMS, which has the ability to generate language models, pre-trained models, and digital humans for various applications Questions to inspire discussion What is the impact of ChatGPT on generative AI?

Cities across the world should invest holistically to meet today’s changing mobility needs and create urban landscapes more accessible and sustainable.