Video - Robot wolves to scare off bears [Japan]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-66944513

Virtual First Impressions

Evidently,  Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence.  Please see below

Virtual first impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence | PLOS ONE

AI-generated Pornography

 News of AI from Spain:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66877718

News of COVID-19 Vaccine

 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1242380/full

Helps against COVID, suppresses response to other infections.

Measles virus does this – it wipes out immune system memory of prior immune response.  No one really understands why, but the mechanics of it are well-established.

https://asm.org/Articles/2019/May/Measles-and-Immune-Amnesia#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20unique,a%20process%20called%20immune%20amnesia.