Algorithms · December 2023Gaffe level: Typo
AI-created 'virtual influencers' are stealing business from humans
AI-generated models like Aitana Lopez are booking $1,000-a-post brand deals in the $21 billion creator economy, leaving human influencers to watch their rates get undercut by pixels. The algorithm giveth jobs, and the algorithm taketh away.
Source: Ars Technica
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah