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🧠 Thought-Decoder: Sci-fi or Reality?

🤖 Diving into the Frontier of Brain-Machine Conversations 🗣️

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Rajesh Chawan
September 19, 2023

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🤖 Today's AI Buffet:

🧠 Thought-Decoder: Sci-fi or Reality? 🚀🔮

🛠️ Awesome AI Tools: Mind-blowing Innovations.

🎩 Prompt-ly Curious Corner: Daily dose of intriguing AI prompts

🧬 Research Rundown: AI's latest studies, succinctly summarized

🤖 AI Shenanigans : Bots just wanna have fun!💡🎭

🚀 Buzz & Bytes: Hot gossip from the motherboard cafe 🗞️

Grab a byte and enjoy the show! 🍿🎬🤪

🧠 Thought-Decoder: Sci-fi or Reality?

In an ambitious bid straight out of a sci-fi novel, Alexander Huth, our brilliant scientist from the University of Texas at Austin, was on a quest. A quest to build a magical tool (sans the wand) that translates brainwaves into words. Flash forward a few years, and voilà! He managed to whip up a decoder that gives a voice to our silent thoughts. The catch? Well, it's not as smooth as Google Translate—yet!

Quick Dive:

  • Huth's gadget used functional MRI data (that's the fancy tech used to watch our brain in action) from subjects binging on podcasts.

  • Trained an AI model to match spoken words with brain activity. Sort of like a matchmaking service for words and brain patterns!

  • The decoder took a shot at guessing thoughts, often with amusing results. "I don’t have my license yet" was interpreted as "She hasn't even started learning to drive!"

In A Nutshell: While we aren't exactly in the "Professor X" league of mind-reading, Huth’s zany experiment offers a fascinating glimpse into where we're headed. But as tech gets sharper, and we inch closer to deciphering our brain's cryptic codes, it’s crucial to ponder: just how ready are we to share our unspoken thoughts? And more importantly, who gets the remote control? Food for thought! 🧠💬

Awesome AI tools 🛠️

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Cleanvoice - Ensure clean, professional audio recordings with Cleanvoice; the AI that eradicates unnecessary fillers, mouth sounds, and stutters.

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Tabnine - The Leading AI Assistant for Software Development

Prompt-ly Curious Corner🎩 

Ready to tickle your brain? Dive into these quirky prompts and unleash your AI-powered curiosity! 🧠💡

Job Cover Letter:

Compose a cover letter for a prompt engineering position in tech. Highlight my technical skills, relevant experiences, career achievements, and how they align with the company's vision and the specific role

Sales Script:

Craft a cold-calling script to introduce an innovative air-purifying plant collection to local coffee shops.

Research Rundown🧬 

AI's Clinical Trials: A Dive into 2018-2023

Diving deep into AI's role in clinical trials over the past five years, we unearthed some fascinating insights that reflect the growing bond between artificial intelligence and healthcare.

Key Tidbits:

  • 📊 Out of 84 RCTs, our stomachs (or rather, gastroenterology) took the limelight with 35 studies. Radiology, surgery, and cardiology trailed behind.

  • 🌍 While the US was the frontrunner, China wasn’t far behind. Interestingly, China had a soft spot for gastroenterology.

  • 🏥 Most studies chose to fly solo with single-site studies. Looks like there's room for more global collaboration!

  • 👍 The good news? Most AI-based medical gizmos got a thumbs-up with positive outcomes in 69 out of 84 RCTs. But, a pinch of salt? Some biases might be in play due to the field's novelty.

In a nutshell: AI’s making waves in healthcare, but it's still early days. The prescription? More diverse and global research to truly validate AI's role. Cheers to the future of AI-enhanced healthcare! 🥂

AI Shenanigans 🤖💡🎭

Midjourney Prompt:

Glowing human brain

AI Spotlight Stories 🚀🗞️

Microsoft's recent faux pas is making headlines! Here's a quick brief:

  • 🌩️ Cloud security firm Wiz stumbled upon a whopping 38 TB of Microsoft's private data mistakenly laid bare by the company's AI researchers.

  • 🖥️ The slip? Microsoft's team intended to share a chunk of open-source training data on GitHub. Instead, they inadvertently exposed disk backups, passwords, private keys, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages.

  • 🚫 The root cause? Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens. Ideally meant for data sharing with permissions, this one was misconfigured to grant 'full control' permissions, leaving potential attackers with not just view access but also delete and overwrite powers.

  • ⏳ The kicker? This token, a gateway to the data, had been in the public domain on GitHub for three whole years. As Wiz's Shir Tamari pointed out, virtually anyone could've chanced upon it.

  • 🛡️ Microsoft has since swooped in to address the oversight. The tech titan clarified that no customer data was at risk and swiftly revoked the SAS token to mitigate the issue.

All in all, while Microsoft has been in hot waters previously (hello, Storm-0558 attacks), this episode serves as a timely reminder: even tech giants can trip. Better watch those data-sharing settings!

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