Scenario prompts 13 September 2023

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Topics are AI startups, prosthetics, ecocide, AI changing your mind, growing a human embryo without sperm or egg, magic, talentism, tech trends, digital twinning, AI and religion and AI-powered avatars of presidential candidates.

How exposed are you to ecocide claims?

The 34 most promising AI startups of 2023, according to to top VCs

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-promising-artificial-intelligence-startups-of-2023-2023-8?

Data, video, machine learning, chat, websites, infrastructure, text, open-source, virtual assistance, value chain, coding, document, insurance, customer service, compliance, etc,

This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/this-prosthetic-limb-actually-attaches-to-the-wearers-nerves?

Merging technology with biology

Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/growing-number-of-countries-consider-making-ecocide-crime?

Mexico latest country where government is considering passing new laws to criminalise environmental destruction. Read Zeronauts https://www.ronimmink.com/criminal-or-zeronaut/

AI-Powered ‘Thought Decoders’ Won’t Just Read Your Mind—They’ll Change It

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-thought-decoder-mind-philosophy/

Cognitive scientists and psychologists have begun to take cues from this “externalist” view of the mind.

Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66715669?

An embryo model”, made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab.

Was Arthur C. Clarke right?

https://lab.cccb.org/en/arthur-c-clarke-any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic/

An exploration of the magical nature of technology

‘We’re moving from an era of capitalism to an era of talentism’: Klaus Schwab, ASEAN Summit

https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/capitalism-era-talentism-klaus-schwab-asean-summit/?

The key competitive factor will become innovation — and not anymore low-cost or the availability of capital”

The Top 5 Tech Trends In 2024 Everyone Must Be Ready For

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/09/11/the-top-5-tech-trends-in-2024-everyone-must-be-ready-for/?

Everyday automation, phygital convergence, sustainable technology, cyber resilience and quantum computing.

Cancer patient digital twins and AI tapped to turbocharge oncology

https://thenextweb.com/news/cancer-patient-digital-twins-ai-turbocharge-oncology

A platform able to produce digital twins of patients

Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23779413/silicon-valleys-ai-religion-transhumanism-longtermism-ea?

We can draw a straight line from christian theologians in the middle ages to the father of empiricism in the renaissance to the futurist ray kurzweil to the tech heavyweights he’s influenced in silicon valley

Prepare yourself. A Donald Trump chatbot is about to be unleashed.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/11/2024-candidate-bots-ai-00115056

A project called Chat2024 will officially unveil the AI-powered avatars of 17 leading presidential candidates.

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