The Download: oyster aquaculture, and trusting AI with our bodies

Carol Pal has taken on a troublesome job. She is likely one of the 10 folks in Delaware at present making an attempt to make it as a cultivated oyster farmer.

Her Salty Witch Oyster Firm holds a lease to develop the mollusks as a part of the state’s new program for aquaculture, launched in 2017. It has sputtered regardless of its apparent promise.

5 years after the primary farmed oysters went into the Inland Bays, the aquaculture business stays in a larval stage. Oysters themselves are nearly legendary of their skill to scrub and filter water. However human willpower, funding, and suppleness are all required to permit the oysters to easily do their factor—notably when builders begin to object. Read the full story.

—Anna Kramer

Are we able to belief AI with our our bodies?

Synthetic intelligence is marching deeper and deeper into our lives. We’re already used to monitoring our our bodies by means of wearables like good watches. Getting a pep discuss from an AI avatar doesn’t really feel like a lot of a stretch.

That’s precisely what’s happening at Lumin Fitness: a fitness center in Texas staffed just about fully by digital AI coaches designed to information fitness center goers by means of exercises. 

In a method, it is sensible. AI might assist to encourage individuals who really feel intimidated or unmotivated to work out, and make it simpler to trace progress over time. However because the tech enters ever-more delicate areas, we have to maintain our wits about us and keep in mind it has numerous limitations. Read the full story.

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