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Do We Dare Use Generative AI for Mental Health?

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And ChatGPT has helped millions of people experiment with conversational AI. As a company that relies on conversation, Woebot Health had to decide whether generative AI could make Woebot a better tool, or whether the technology was too dangerous to incorporate into our product.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.).

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Chatbot: A New Robotics Podcast from IEEE Spectrum

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Spotify ↗ • Apple Podcasts ↗ • Google Podcasts ↗ • Amazon Music ↗ • Pocket Casts ↗ • Podcast Addict ↗ • Deezer ↗ • Player FM ↗ • Podchaser ↗ • Listen Notes ↗ • YouTube ↗ • RSS Feed ↗ The way the Chatbot podcast works is that we invite a couple of robotics experts to talk with each other about a topic that they have in common. .

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Louisiana Dealership caught posting misleading Ford F-150 EV listing on Facebook

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In a tip emailed to Teslarati , our reader shared photos of a conversation with the dealer rep in a private Facebook group. According to the emailed tip, the dealership is also posting to the North Bossier Online Yard Sale Facebook group , a private group that is no longer accepting new memberships. (I I tried to join.)

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Wireless charging company Evatran gains $1.6M strategic investment from China Tier 1 supplier

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Evatran Group, Inc. The partners began conversations in early 2015 and closed this initial investment in early June in order to move forward with planning and due diligence in preparation for marketing the Plugless technology in China. The initial investment of $1.6 The initial investment of $1.6 billion in sales in 2014.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Novel thermal process for conversion of CO2 to CO using metal ferrite oxygen carriers, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., National Energy Technology Laboratory. Montgomery Center, Vt.

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AI Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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ChatGPT tries to impress the users…What it’s trying to do is trying to be as good as humans in a variety of tasks: answering questions, being conversational, writing sonnets, and writing essays. They wanted to beat Google [to market, understanding that] some of the technologies were originally developed by Google. Acemoglu: Yes.

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