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carefully so I don't get demonetized. There are some keywords that you don't want to use. So I'm going to talk around the keywords and say AI allegedly can predict when a user is likely to want to harm themselves. Let's say the ultimate harm. You know what I mean? I'm just trying not to use the words. Do you think that's right? Do you think an AI can analyze your social media messages and tell if…
← Previous segment →in Futurism that OpenAI has hired a forensic psychiatrist to figure out why AI is potentially dangerous to some users, as I was explaining. And OpenAI says that they're doing it to research the impacts on users psychologically. But they might be aware that AI is deadly for some kinds of people, and they're trying to figure out how to reduce their liability. But let's also assume they'd like to save some lives because they're good people as far as we know.
There is a form of gene therapy, according to a publication called The Conversation. There are some people who are born deaf, and depending on the specific kind of problem you have with your reason for being deaf, they can restore hearing in some people with gene therapy. And that's all it is, just gene therapy, and then suddenly their hearing — I won't say it returns, but they can make somebody born deaf with an incurable cause now h
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ear with gene therapy. Now obviously this is not going to work on every person, and I think they mostly use it on young people. But how amazing is that? Imagine if that became common and a baby is born and it's deaf and they just say, ah, no problem, just give us this gene therapy, and then two weeks later the baby can hear normally. We are definitely entering a golden age if we allow ourselves t…
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