AI Medical Research, Watching Sports, Blinking

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about a new AI developed to help doctors identify and treat diseases like cancer, why watching sports might give our sense of wellness a boost, and the real reason we blink so much.

AI Medical Research

“Mayo researchers invented a new class of AI to improve cancer research and treatments.” EurekAlert! 2024.
“The Rise of Hypothesis-Driven Artificial Intelligence in Oncology.” by Zilin Xianyu, et al. 2024.

Watching Sports

“The joy of sports: How watching sports can boost well-being.” EurekAlert! 2024.
“Watching sport enhances well-being: evidence from a multi-method approach.” by Keita Kinoshita, et al. 2024.

Blinking

“Why do we blink so much?” EurekAlert! 2024.
“Eye blinks as a visual processing stage.” by Bin Yang, et al. 2024.

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0:44.5	Callie and we are so excited to have you here with us at Curiosity. Today you'll learn
0:48.8	about a new AI developed to help doctors identify and treat diseases like cancer, why watching sports
0:55.6	might give our sense of wellness a boost, and the real reason we blink so much.
1:00.4	Let's jump in.
1:01.4	If you take the headline seriously, the rise of AI is earth-shattering and will change everything.
1:06.7	The predictions are pretty wild. It might wholly remake our economy. It might help people focus on more important tasks in their jobs. It might
1:14.2	solve war or make war. Maybe it will save us or maybe it will destroy us.
1:18.4	Yeah, the promises are enormous, good and bad. I'll say I'm super interested to see where AI takes us but so far most of
1:26.3	the so-called wild use cases seem to be around making memes and generating images that just look like AI drew them.
1:36.0	Right. Lots of the more visible innovations have a sort of gimmicky feel to them
1:40.9	although there is no denying that major advancements are in the works.
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