junio 2024

03 Jun

The new ChatGPT offers a lesson in AI hype

Camila RojasCiencia y Tecnología

The bot then spawned an even bigger Waldo. Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor and AI researcher at Arizona State University, also put the chatbot through some testing and said he didn't notice any notable improvements in reasoning compared to the latest version. He presented ChatGPT with a puzzle involving blocks: The answer is that it is impossible to arrange the blocks under these conditions, but, just as with previous versions, ChatGPT-4o consistently found a solution that involved moving block C. With this and other reasoning tests, ChatGPT was occasionally able to take feedback to get the right answer, which is antithetical…

03 Jun

Fox News and MSNBC Notch Rating Win After Trump Verdict

Camila RojasInversiones y negocios

The jury was unanimous. But the cable news verdict was a split decision. Viewers across the country rushed to television screens Thursday to learn the outcome of the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump. Fox News got the most viewers for breaking coverage of the 34 allegations, drawing 4.7 million viewers from 5 to 6 p.m., according to Nielsen. That's a huge number of viewers for a weekday afternoon and easily surpassed the audiences of CNN, MSNBC and broadcast networks that interspersed regular programming with special reports. In the evening, after the news of the verdict, MSNBC's…

03 Jun

FDA reviews MDMA therapy for PTSD, citing health risks and study flaws

Camila RojasSalud

Research like the current research into MDMA therapy has blocked support from various groups and lawmakers in both parties for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that affects millions of Americans, particularly military veterans who are at enormous risk of suicide . No new treatments for PTSD have been approved for more than 20 years. “What's happening is really a paradigm shift for psychiatry,” said David Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelia and Neurotherapy at UC Davis. “MDMA represents an important step for the industry because there is a real lack of effective treatments and people need…

02 Jun

Spain approves amnesty law on 2017 Catalan independence referendum

Camila RojasInversiones y negocios

Madrid's regional president, Isabel Ayuso, said in a radio interview Thursday that her government will take steps to hinder the implementation of the new law and will appeal as it is unconstitutional. Pablo Simón, a political scientist at the Carlos III University of Madrid, said judges could also take legal action if they found the granting of general legal amnesty discriminatory. "Each judge has different criteria," Simón explained, adding that he could also resort to the intervention of the European Court of Justice "if he considers that the granting of the general amnesty is discriminatory", in which case "the law…

02 Jun

Trump can sue niece for disclosure of financial records, court rules

Camila RojasInversiones y negocios

In the charges against his niece, Trump argued that she had broken the terms of a confidentiality agreement that was part of a settlement tied to the will of Fred C. Trump, the former president's father, who died in 1999. Mrs. Trump, who revealed her role as a source for the Times in a 2020 memoir, argues that the First Amendment protected her actions. In a three-page opinion Thursday, the state appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that there was a "substantial legal basis" for Trump's breach of contract. The opinion also notes several questions that will need to…