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Digital Trends - Google AI Mode will reinvent Search. I’m worried — and you should be, too - When asked whether astronauts met cats on the moon, it confidently agreed that it was true, adding that astronauts even took care of those lunar cats. Virginia Tech digital literacy expert, Julia Feerrar, remarked that AI doesn’t actually know the answers to our questions, citing an example where Google AI overview confidently mentioned Barack Obama as the first Muslim President.

New York Times - Are Ultraprocessed Foods Addictive? - A few drugs, like cocaine and amphetamines, trigger dramatic surges in dopamine that are obvious on PET scans, but for others, like nicotine or opioids, the dopamine responses are smaller and not always detectable, said Alexandra DiFeliceantonio, a neuroscientist at Virginia Tech who was not involved with the study.

Technical.ly - Check out Virginia Tech’s $1B innovation campus, now open in Alexandria - Drones and other autonomous vehicles could soon help one another navigate dangerous terrain without actual communication. Thanks to research out of Virginia Tech, they may even eventually operate with common sense. Students and faculty are fusing quantum computing, artificial intelligence and wireless technology to build synced autonomous vehicles. It’s also the concept of a digital twin, explained professor Walid Saad from the school’s Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.