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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
How AI could help stop the next pandemic before it starts
Could artificial intelligence tools be used to stop the next pandemic before it starts? During the Covid pandemic, new technology developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke universities didn't exist. But, for the first time, researchers there say they've devised a revolutionary large language modeling tool - the type of generative AI used in ChatGP - to help predict the spread of any infectious disease, such as bird flu, monkeypox, and RSV. That could help save lives and reduce infections. 'Covid-19 elucidated the challenge of predicting disease spread due to the interplay of complex factors that were constantly changing,' Johns Hopkins' Lauren Gardner, a modeling expert who created the Covid dashboard that was relied upon by people worldwide during the pandemic, said in a statement. 'When conditions were stable the models were fine. However, when new variants emerged or policies changed, we were terrible at predicting the outcomes because we didn't have the modeling capabilities to include critical types of information,' she added. 'The new tool fills this gap.' Gardner was one of the authors of the study published Thursday in the Nature Computational Science journal. The tool, named PandemicLLM, considers recent infection spikes, new variants, and stringent protective measures. The researchers utilized data that had never been used before in pandemic prediction tools, finding that PandemicLLM could accurately predict disease patterns and hospitalization trends one to three weeks out. The data included rates of cases hospitalizations and vaccines, types of government policies, characteristics of disease variants and their prevalence, and state-level demographics. The model incorporates these elements to predict how they will come together and affect how disease behaves. They retroactively applied PandemicLLM to the Covid pandemic, looking at each state over the course of 19 months. The authors said the tool was particularly successful when the outbreak was in flux. It also outperformed existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods, including the highest performing ones on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's CovidHub. 'Traditionally we use the past to predict the future,' author Hao 'Frank' Yang, a Johns Hopkins assistant professor of civil and systems engineering, said. 'But that doesn't give the model sufficient information to understand and predict what's happening. Instead, this framework uses new types of real-time information.' Going forward, they are looking at how large language models can replicate the ways individuals make decisions about their health. They hope that such a model would help officials to design safer and more effective policies. More than a million Americans have died from Covid. It's not a matter of if there will be a next pandemic, but when. Right now, the U.S. is dealing with the spread of H5N1 bird flu, RSV, HMPV, pertussis, and measles, among other health concerns. Vaccination rates for measles have plunged since the pandemic, and general vaccine hesitancy has increased. That has resulted in fears that the nation could see decades of health progress reversed. Furthermore, U.S. health officials have acted to separate from global efforts to respond to pandemics, withdrawing from the World Health Organization earlier this year. Last month, they limited access to Covid vaccines for certain groups. 'We know from Covid-19 that we need better tools so that we can inform more effective policies,' Gardner said. 'There will be another pandemic, and these types of frameworks will be crucial for supporting public health response.'
Hans India
29-04-2025
- Business
- Hans India
OpenAI Enhances ChatGPT with New Shopping, Search, and WhatsApp Features
ChatGPT is stepping up its game to become a more helpful tool for online shopping. OpenAI recently announced new improvements aimed at making ChatGPT's web search and shopping features more powerful and user-friendly. In a fresh update, OpenAI revealed that users can now shop directly from within the ChatGPT app. This feature is part of the updated ChatGPT Search mode, allowing users to browse and find products across the internet, similar to how Google Search operates. "We're excited to announce we've launched several improvements to ChatGPT search, and today we're starting to roll out a better shopping experience," OpenAI shared in a post on X. The company emphasize edits goal to make "shopping simpler and faster to find, compare, and buy products in ChatGPT." This new shopping functionality is available on ChatGPT's default 4-o model. Shopping We're experimenting with making shopping simpler and faster to find, compare, and buy products in ChatGPT. ✅ Improved product results ✅ Visual product details, pricing, and reviews ✅ Direct links to buy Product results are chosen independently and are not ads.… — OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 28, 2025 ChatGPTSearch has rapidly become one of OpenAI's most-used and fastest-growing features. According to OpenAI, "Search has become one of our most popular& fastest growing features, with over 1 billion web searches just in thepast week," demonstrating how central search has become to the ChatGP Texperience. With the new update, users can expect to see improved product results, visual details, pricing information, reviews, and direct links to buy products. Importantly, OpenAI clarified that "product results are chosen independently and are not ads," reassuring users that the recommendations are unbiased. The feature is being rolled out to Plus, Pro, Free, and even logged-out users across all regions where ChatGPT is available, with full availability expected in the next few days. During our testing on a free ChatGPT account, we found a mix of functional links and product names. For example, while recommendations for Amazon India and Flipkart worked correctly, other brand product names were offered, along with a comparison with similar products. Additionally, a YouTube video was also displayed. You can find the screenshots of our ChatGPT testing. Delete Edit Alongside the shopping enhancements, OpenAI also expanded ChatGPT's integration with WhatsApp. Now, users can send a WhatsApp message to 1-800-ChatGPT (+1-800-242-8478) to receive live updates, answers, and even real-time sports scores. Search in WhatsApp You can now send a WhatsApp message to 1-800-ChatGPT (+1-800-242-8478) to get up-to-date answers and live sports scores. Accessible everywhere ChatGPT is — OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 28, 2025
RTÉ News
25-04-2025
- Business
- RTÉ News
Google says deep AI investments powering ad sales
Google parent Alphabet has reassured jittery tech investors that its AI investments were powering returns at its crucial ad business, downplaying any impact from global economic uncertainty, for now. The search giant's first-quarter profit and revenue beat expectations, and the company said it would buy back $70 billion in stock, pushing its shares up 4% after market and adding $75 billion to its market value. Alphabet reaffirmed its ambitious AI build-out plans and backed its $75 billion capex guidance for the year, offering hopes for investors in Meta and Amazon, whose shares also rose in aftermarket trading. US President Donald Trump's trade policy has triggered worries of an economic downturn, prompting companies to rethink their spending on advertising. It has also fuelled investor concern that tech giants may have to pause or slow their ambitious AI infrastructure build-outs due to rising costs from tit-for-tat tariffs between the US and China. Big Tech has continued to defend its aggressive AI investments, saying these were necessary to remain competitive. But analysts have said there are early signs of tech majors pulling back on new data center commitments. "I saw the narrative around infrastructure spending as being one that was particularly a negative narrative in the market, suggesting that AI investments had peaked and that this was a sign that the bubble was deflating. And I think what Google told us today was it's absolutely not the case," said Will Rhind, CEO of global ETF issuer GraniteShares. Revenue from Google's mainstay ad business, which makes up nearly three-quarters of its overall revenue, rose 8.5% to $66.89 billion in the quarter - a slowdown from the prior quarter's 10.6% increase, but still above analysts' expectations for a rise of 7.7%. Still, Google's chief business officer Philipp Schindler told analysts during a conference call the company was not immune to macroeconomic uncertainty. "The changes to de minimis exemption will obviously cause a slight headwind to our ads business in 2025, primarily from APAC (Asia Pacific)-based retailers," he said, referring to Trump's order this month to end a trade rule allowing low-value packages from China and Hong Kong to enter the US free of duties. Some of the biggest US advertisers include Chinese e-commerce websites Temu and Shein, and they are sharply cutting their US digital ad spending, industry data showed, in a move that could dent ad revenues at Google and Facebook parent Meta. The integration of AI into Google search is key to its advertising appeal, as it offers advertisers the ability to run more effective campaigns and get more return on their dollars. CEO Sundar Pichai said AI Overviews, the summaries that appear above traditional hyperlinks to relevant webpages, now have 1.5 billion users per month. In March, Google added a new AI-only mode to its search. "Search revenue growth continues to be strong despite worries about generative AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, impacting the search business," said David Heger, an analyst at Edward Jones. Google Cloud reported a 28% rise in revenue to $12.26 billion, slowing from the 30.1% growth reported in the previous quarter. Analysts were expecting the unit to report revenue of $12.27 billion, according to LSEG's data compilation. The company reported total revenue of $90.23 billion for the first quarter, compared to analysts' average estimate of $89.12 billion. Alphabet reported a profit of $2.81 per share for the January-March period, beating estimates of $2.01 per share, according to LSEG data. The firm also said it would raise its quarterly dividend by 5% to 21 cents per share. The company spent $17.20 billion on capital expenditures in the quarter, a 43% increase from the same period a year earlier.
Al Bawaba
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
OpenAI's Sam Altman welcomes first baby
Published February 23rd, 2025 - 10:35 GMT ALBAWABA - Open AI CEO, Sam Altman recently made headlines after taking to social media and announcing the birth of his first child. The tech billionaire took to Musk's X (formerly known as Twitter) despite the recent clash between him and Musk and showcased a picture of his child. The picture also showed Altman holding the child's small hand with his finger. He took to X stating that the baby came early and wrote, "Welcome to the world, little guy! He came early and is going to be in the NICU for awhile. he is doing well and it's really nice to be in a little bubble taking care of him. I have never felt such love." Since the baby was born prematurely, he will be spending time in the hospital for extra precaution. welcome to the world, little guy!he came early and is going to be in the nicu for awhile. he is doing well and it's really nice to be in a little bubble taking care of him. i have never felt such love. — Sam Altman (@sama) February 22, 2025 The post which is now pinned, garnered more than 3.8 million views and nearly 40,000 likes as X users congratulated Sam Altman for bringing a baby to the world. One X user wrote, "Congratulations to you and Oliver!!!!" Another added, "He has your hair, congrats :)" Chairman and CEO at Microsoft Satya Nadella also wrote, "My heartfelt congratulations, @sama! Parenthood is one of life's most profound and rewarding experiences. Wishing you and your family the very best." Sam Altman is married to fellow husband Oliver Louis Mulherin who's a software engineer from Melbourne, Australia. Altman married Mulherin at a private beach ceremony in Hawaii sometime in late 2023 or early 2024, according to NBC News. The announcement of them tying the knot was made publicly on Musk's X as well, following pictures of their ceremony. Altman vs Musk: Open AI's recent $100 billion bid This combination of pictures created on February 11, 2025 shows (L-R) Elon Musk in Los Angeles, on February 3, 2024 and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Photo by LISA O'CONNOR and JACK GUEZ / AFP) Altman recently rejected a $100 billion bid made by X CEO Elon Musk to obtain one of the world's best AI bots, ChatGP. This move complicated things for Altman and OpenAI since the company has an unusual structure of a partnership between non-profit and for-profit. So despite knowing that he wouldn't obtain it for that price tag, Musk benefited from his move by complicating things for his competitor Altman. According to BBC, Dr Penn said, "What Musk is trying to do here is raise the perceived value of the non-profit arm of OpenAI, so that OpenAI has to pay more to get out of the obligations it has to its own non-profit." It's worth noting that Musk founded OpenAI with Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba back in 2015. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
CBC
30-01-2025
- Business
- CBC
DeepSeek and China's AI power move
A small Chinese tech company called Deepseek has upended the world of AI. Deepseek recently released a large language model that rivals ChatGP called R1 and it shot almost immediately to #1 on the app charts. The interesting thing about it is that the company built their model really cheap and that has called into question this narrative that you need an endless supply of chips and data centres and money to develop AI. On today's show we're speaking to WIRED's senior tech writer Zeyi Yang about the deepening AI cold war between the US and China and the lingering questions about where AI is headed and what it's good for?
