#123 - Robotics Advancements, Chatbot Companions, and Medicine Fellowships!
#123 - Robotics Advancements, Chatbot Companions, and Medicine Fellowships!
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In the News
🧠 A new discovery sheds light on how the brain modulates the inflammatory response through the immune system.
☀️ New fusion milestone: 6 sustained minutes of 90-million degree(f) plasma.
💘 Doctors in Barcelona performed the world’s first robotic heart surgery.
🤖 We’re super wary of Boston Dynamics and their ever-creepy / ever-impressive robots. Their newest version of their humanoid model, Atlas, lives up to those expectations.
Opportunities
“The Hi-Med Career Fellowship is a 5-week programme designed to help you figure out what your impactful career path might look like, set specific goals, and explore actionable next steps. In addition, you will learn different methods to reflect on your career and use decision-making processes, prioritisation, and career planning tools.” Their application deadline is coming up soon on May 12th, so don’t delay!
ALLFED is seeking a policy associate, and they also have opportunities for PhD students and general volunteering roles. “The mission of Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters is to help create resilience to global food shocks. We seek to identify various resilient food solutions and to help governments implement these solutions, to increase the chances that people have enough to eat in the event of a global catastrophe. We focus on events that could deplete food supplies or access to 5% of the global population or more. Our ultimate goal is to feed everyone, no matter what. An important aspect of this goal is that we need to establish equitable solutions so that all people can access the nutrition they need, regardless of wealth or location.”
We LOVE Our World in Data and we’re excited to share that they’re looking for a writer to join their team! “We are looking for a passionate and skilled writer to join our team on a permanent basis. The ideal candidate will bring excellent writing skills for a general audience, arguments and narratives built around trusted data, and an ability to drive a clear and exciting agenda in their area of work. This role offers the opportunity to work within a dynamic and supportive team environment, focusing on writing that reaches a wide, influential audience.”
Impact Ops is looking for a recruitment specialist. “Impact Ops is an independent and EA-aligned organization that provides operational support to high-impact nonprofits. Our services include finance, recruitment, entity setup, audit, due diligence, and system implementation. We’re looking for motivated, altruistic, and optimistic people from diverse backgrounds to join us in this impactful work by providing excellent operational support to our clients.”
What We’re Watching
Teens are turning to AI chatbots for companionship, and the results can be varied.
Relatedly, people in China are turning to deepfakes of deceased loved ones, and the results can be varied.
Also relatedly, politicians in India are turning to GenAI for their political campaigns, and the results can be varied.
And unrelatedly, vaccines are simply incredible.
Quotes We Love
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
— Erich Fromm
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