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Frankenstein serves as a cautionary tale, warning about the potential dangers of unchecked scientific progress, the ethical responsibilities of creators, and the consequences of societal rejection and alienation.
The classic, published in 1818, tells the story of a scientist who creates a sentient being, and the moral dilemmas that arise.
The conjoined Hensel twins defied the odds to have a happy life.
Abby and Brittany have reached another milestone, with the former revealing she wed in 2021 – but they’ve faced some big challenges. (Telegraph)
World's first artificial womb facility is a creepy glimpse of pregnancy in future.
"You can use the "Elite Package," which would let you engineer the embryo genetically before they implant it into an artificial womb. You can choose intelligence, height, strength, hair, eye color, etc., and avoid genetic diseases." (Economic Times)
More people are going to space, but diversity is still grounded.
"Space isn’t just for the professionals any more, as several high-profile rocket-makers are gearing up to send civilians above the atmosphere. But with price tags in the millions, we are still far from the long-awaited democratisation of space flight." (New Scientist)
Vigilantes lynch woman suspected of role in kidnap and killing of young girl.
Residents of Mexican tourist town take law into their own hands after three people arrested on suspicion of murder of eight-year-old. (Telegraph)
Google fired engineer who said its AI was sentient.
"LaMDA utilizes Google’s most advanced large language models, a type of AI that recognizes and generates text. These systems cannot understand language or meaning, researchers say. But they can produce deceptively humanlike speech because they are trained on massive amounts of data crawled from the internet to predict the next most likely word in a sentence." (Washington Post)
TikTok Layoff Videos Pose Quandary for Bosses on How to Respond
"Brittany Pietsch inspired a wave of copycats after she posted on TikTok a recording of her tense conversation with two Cloudflare representatives informing her that she was being let go." (Bloomberg Law)
Air Force colonel backtracks over his warning about how AI could go rogue and kill its human operators.
"The problem, according to Hamilton, is that the AI would do its own thing — blow up stuff — rather than listen to its operator." (Business Insider)