When many jackie late they can release from 15000000 to over 200000000 sperm per milliliter. But only a fraction of those reach the womans fallopian choose and usually only one sperm actually manages to get a chase or an egg its a difficult journey. Kumar from new zealand have a question for us about stuff. Is it possible to create sperm artificially. The reproductive cells are complicated for one purpose in life is to fertilize an egg cell and father a child but sometimes they fall short of expectations. Men in the western world have a sperm. Count just half that of 40 years ago if that trend were to continue by 2050 theyd be sterile. A range of culprits are being blamed for moans and Water Supplies to chemicals in plastic all can disrupt the bodys hormones but is helping hand from the wild. Researchers in china the u. S. And britain have created artificial sperm in mice at least. The technique involves converting embryonic stem cells to emit sure sperm cells. The mice produced using
An irrational selfish passion. Afterwards or saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sundays at 9 00 p. M. Eastern from book tv on cspan2. All previous afterwards are available as podcasts and to watch online at booktv. Org. A good evening everyone. Welcome to borders books and thank you for so porting our bookstore. Before we begin cspan is filming so make sure all films phones on silent. I want to let you know about a couple of other events. On tuesday, Stephen Kinzer is going to present the history of cia. We also have events last week and tickets are available from mondays conversation between celeste and and for the talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai which argues that a computer being a human in jeopardy does not signal we were on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars. Taking inspiration from the human the book explains if we need to advance to the next level and suggest if we are wise along the way we will not need to worry about a future machine overlo
Lives nearby. The officer, her dog, and the two other drivers escaped major injury. Redwood city Police Brought in the chp to investigate, to avoid any conflict of interest. Our police are always very cautious. And highly respected, so to see an accident like this is kind of shocking. The chp Major Accident Investigation Team spent the day diagramming the scene. At the time of the crash, the road was slick from the morning rain. It goes to show riding in these conditions, the first rain of the year, is really dangerous. The names of the officer and other people involved have not been released. Now to marin county where a woman and two Young Children suffered various injuries when their car crashed and rolled over today. It happened at a 30 this morning on highway 101 year that exit for st. Vincent drive. Allison rodriguez tells us that authorities are looking for Good Samaritans who pulled those victims to safety. Reporter drivers zoomed past the 101 near san rafael now, but it was a s
I want to thank everyone for being here today to examine the use of persuasive technologies on internet platforms. Each of our Witnesses Today has a great deal of expertise with respect to to algorithms and as well as in the more narrow context of engagement and persuasion and brings unique perspectives to these matters. Your participation in this hearing is appreciated. I con vain this hearing in part to inform legislation i am developing to give consumers the option to engage with the platform without having the experience shaped by algorithm use specific data. Internet platforms have transferred the way we interact and made positive ways on society in ways too numerous to counting. The vast majority of content is innocuous and at its best it is entertaining, educational and beneficial to the public. However, the powerful mechanisms behind these platforms also have the ability or at least the potential to influence the thoughts and behaviors of literally billions of people. As one re
September 1st on t w. This is what suny me cool she is a hologram. And this is akihito condo her husband. On yellow. Hello. You look i want to say. I love culture ends. Meet cool is a simple form of Artificial Intelligence and her condo it was a case of love at 1st sight who has become a legitimate pop star and even appears at concerts as a 3 d. Projection. In nov 28th condo married nico at a ceremony in tokyo the place the ring around the wrist of a me coup dall. He now keeps it all in his bedroom. Condos relationships with real women have been painful so he chose a virtual partner. Were generalized i love her but its hard to say if she loves me for the them this is still if you asked her no i think shed say yes. You. C do need cool and akihito condo are an extreme example of the relationship between people and machines i mean that book. In the future will no doubt spend more time interacting with technology that uses Artificial Intelligence or ai. We may even develop robots that are