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Global Trac Solutions Reports Record Pageviews Of Psychedelics Industry Indicate An Expanding Interest In The Sector – Yahoo Finance
Posted: June 11, 2021 at 11:54 am
Global Trac Solutions, Inc. (OTCPink: PSYC), a digital media company focused on the psychedelics sector, published traffic results for its Psychedelic Spotlight news platform.
The company reported record page views of almost 125,000 views for May alone, surpassing the previous record of 105,000 views for April.
Global Trac viewed the data as an indication of the notable growth of interest in psychedelics medicine.
From my perspective, with the psychedelics industry still very much in its infancy, I cant help but to see the advantageous and opportunistic position that, in my opinion, we are creating for PSYC through the success of Psychedelic Spotlight, Global Trac's CEO David Flores said.
Benzingas Take: Benzingas own page views around the keyword psychedelics show a different trend. May was the lowest performing month of the year for the category, which peaked in January 2021.
From a broader perspective, however, the last six months (from December 2020 to May 2021) showed an increase in traffic of almost 300% for the psychedelics category when compared to the six months raging from June 2020 to November 2020.
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In 2014, during my first pregnancy, I felt happy and healthy almost all the time. I rode my bike to work at the Department of Energy & Environment in Washington, D.C., until I was six or seven months pregnant and took kickboxing classes until about four weeks before my daughter was born.
So it was a bit of a shock when my second pregnancy was so different. Around the four-month mark, I developed sciatica, which is intense nerve pain that runs from your pelvis down your leg. By the end of each day, I could barely walk. I had to crawl up the stairs to the bedroom. Because of the pain, I wasnt able to be as active as I wanted. Then other parts of my health started to decline I stopped eating healthy food and doing other things I needed to do to take care of myself physically and mentally.
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I developed whats called antepartum depression, or depression during pregnancy. I had never heard of it, but it's not uncommon about 7% of pregnant women experience it, according to the Mayo Clinic, and many more cases may go unreported. My doctor prescribed an antidepressant, which I know is lifesaving for many people, but for personal reasons I decided not to take it.
I tried to manage my pain with over-the-counter pain relievers, heating pads, warm baths and acupuncture, which did provide some short-term relief. I also tried meditating, but I would just sit there hurting, my mind swirling. In the summer of 2017, I delivered my son, Ramsey. He had a head full of curls and for a couple of weeks, all was well. Then he developed GI issues and we had some other challenges. Plus, going from one kid (my daughter Lola was three) to two doesnt just double the work it quadruples it. I felt so overwhelmed. Other moms I knew seemed like they had it all together. I thought, why am I the only one who's struggling? Id just put on my happy face and pretend like everything was okay. But it wasnt.
By late 2017, I developed severe postpartum depression. It wasnt just profound sadness, it was dread. I had a constant chatter of negative self-talk going on, a voice in my head reminding me what a terrible wife and mother I was. I had a therapist, but the depression made me feel so unmotivated, I'd find any excuse not to go.
That fall, my husband Daniel and I drove down to Alabama with the kids to see his parents for Thanksgiving. A friend of mine suggested that we listen to a podcast that he thought might help me, so we turned it on in the car. The guest on the show was Paul Stamets, a mycologist, or mushroom scientist, who was talking about psilocybin, the psychedelic component of some mushrooms, as a treatment for depression. I've never taken any kind of psychedelic drug, but at that point, I was open to considering just about anything.
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After a ton of research, I began to realize that psychedelics arent the hippie drug they used to be considered. In fact, research centers at Johns Hopkins University, New York University and the University of California, Berkeley, have begun to study the potential of psilocybin and other psychedelics to help a range of ills, including depression, anxiety, addition and eating disorders. The treatments are administered in research settings, with therapists in the room to keep watch over a person who has taken a precise dose of psychedelics. The treatment is also often combined with psychotherapy.
I couldn't get psychedelic therapy at Johns Hopkins, the closest hospital to me that offered it. They required treatment resistant depression, and since I didn't try antidepressants, I didn't qualify.
Instead, in January 2018, my husband began the process of growing psilocybin mushrooms himself. After a lot of research into legitimate sellers, we ordered mushrooms spores online its legal because the spores themselves dont contain psylocibin and started growing them in our bedroom. I don't recommend anyone do this and we didnt say a word to anyone about it. Daniel and I were local government employees, and I was taking the biggest risk of my life. Once the spores grew into mushrooms, which do contain psilocybin, we were breaking the law. I was terrified of getting caught and losing everything. But by that point, my mental health was hanging by a thread.
My lowest point was on Valentines Day, when I told my husband I was hearing voices.
My lowest point was on Valentines Day 2018 when Daniel and I went to lunch and I told him I was hearing voices. The look on his face said it all. His way of getting me in front of a professional was to suggest we go to couples therapy. And it was true that our marriage was struggling. We were not communicating with each other. We were sleeping on the very edges of the bed. We were constantly fighting. And truthfully it was easier to focus on our marriage than on myself.
Couples therapy provided some relief in our marriage, but it was not addressing the core of my deep depression. Our therapist recommended that I find a one-on-one therapist (I'd stopped going to one I had previously seen), but the time and financial commitment were too much and the depression had stripped me of nearly all my motivation to try to help myself. Finally, by March, I got to the point where I no longer wanted to live. I would fantasize about going to the roof of my building at work and what it would be like to jump. Every time I walked across the street, I envisioned a car turning the corner quickly and hitting me. I had panic attacks about once a week where I would punch my body.
I convinced myself that my kids would be better off with a different woman as their mother. My parents, who are immigrants from Iran, knew what was going on, but depression isn't really discussed in Iranian culture. My husband told me later that he called my mom several times to try to figure out how to help me, but neither of them really knew what to do. But he picked up all the household duties and childcare and encouraged me to get out of the house. He helped me work through panic attacks and allowed me as much alone time as I needed.
The first batch of mushrooms matured by April. I wasnt interested in tripping, so after reading deeply about other people's experiences and dosing approaches, I decided that whats called microdosing was right for me. I bought a small digital scale and measured out the tiniest amount, less than half a gram of a mushroom. I'd eat it with my breakfast and go to work. Again, I don't recommend this it's illegal and I didn't have a doctor monitoring me. But desperation is a powerful motivator.
I took my first microdose in April, and I started to notice a big difference three days later. Depression had made me feel very detached from my body and a bit disassociated from what was going on around me, like I was just going through the motions. Microdosing mushrooms made me feel very present in my body. There were no hallucinations or other symptoms you might associate with a psychedelic experience. I compare the feeling to getting eight hours of sleep, having a good workout and drinking the perfect amount of coffee. I just felt sharp and ready for my day.
Some of the numbness from depression started to lift. I could smell and taste things like normal again. My husband said I was walking taller, speaking differently and engaging with my children again. As the fog started to lift, I began to get even more invested in my own recovery, and I was motivated to return to one-on-one therapy.
After my first microdose, there were no hallucinations. It felt like getting eight hours of sleep and drinking the perfect amount of coffee.
I was microdosing mushrooms about three times a week and starting to feel a lot better, more like myself. But when my supply of mushrooms ran out and after a couple attempts of growing more mushrooms failed, my depression symptoms started to creep back. A friend suggested I try ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea made from the leaves of a South American shrub. The practice of drinking it for mental and spiritual healing originated thousands of years ago; the ceremonies are often lead by shamans.
I nervously participated in a few ceremonies. The experience can be difficult to describe, but ayahuasca opened my mind and allowed me to face and process my trauma. It didn't cure my depression, but after the ceremonies, I began to understand that the solution to my issues is not found in anything or anyone except myself. Knowing that I had all the tools within me already was a powerful feeling.
I hated that I had to sneak around and feel ashamed about ingesting two substances, mushrooms and ayahuasca, that literally grow out of the ground. I wanted more people to be aware of the potential benefits of psychedelics, so I started to explore what a campaign in D.C. to legalize entheogens, which are naturally occurring plants or fungi like psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca and others that can initiate altered states of consciousness that inspires mental or spiritual growth and healing, would look like. At that time, two U.S. cities, Denver and Oakland, had legalized them, and I reached out to the person who had led the campaign in Denver for advice.
Pretty early on, I realized that if I wanted the referendum, Initiative 81, to be successful, I needed to be the face of the campaign. It's very disarming when a message about psychedelics comes from a someone who might sit beside you at a PTA meeting. So, I became the Chairwoman of the Campaign to Decriminalize Nature DC and we launched the campaign and website with my story at the center and very credible research about the mental benefits of psychedelics from Johns Hopkins and NYU right alongside it.
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I was fully prepared for blowback, to be called a bad mother and wife, but I didnt get much of that. When we held public meetings, a few people said, these substances could harm children and thats an unnecessary risk to take. But my response was that we have all sorts of things in our homes that can harm children scissors, knives, alcohol, medication. We protect our kids from these things, and we can protect our kids from entheogens, too.
We actually knew well before voting day that we were going to win. But when I heard the results 76% of voters approved the referendum I was shocked. Initiative 81 doesnt legalize entheogens or reduce penalties for having them. Rather, it decriminalizes them by making planting, buying or using them among the police departments lowest law enforcement priorities.
Mental health, especially for women and moms, isnt talked about nearly enough. Everyone feels like theyre the only ones having issues, but the truth is, one in nine new mothers experience postpartum depression. As my name and face came to be associated with the campaign, I found out that a lot of my friends were dealing with similar issues. Some of them hated to be medicated and were so happy to have another potential option. Not to mention that the pandemic has made nearly everyone so stressed and persistently anxious. Were all just trying to make it through. When this is over, were going to have a lot of mental health ramifications to deal with. And I think psychedelics can help play a role in the healing.
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Why the North America Psychedelic Drugs Market is Expected to Grow With the Fastest CAGR for Next Several Years – PRNewswire
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PALM BEACH, Fla., June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The illegal drugs of the 1960's are becoming highly valued drugs for various new therapeutic uses across a growing list of maladies. The door of previously prohibited drugs has been opening and it appears that there will be more treatments, more surprises and more revenues as the door continues to open. Psychedelic drugs involve various types of chemical substances including LSD and chemical extracted from plants. Psychedelic drugs have the ability to change or enhance the sensory perceptions, thought processes, energy levels and have also been reported to facilitate spiritual experiences. Psychedelic drugs can be categorized into empathogens and dissociative drugs (such as PCP) and serotonergic (classic hallucinogens) such as LSD. The rising prevalence of mental depression and anxiety and availability of off-label drugs are the major drivers which has propelled the demand of the psychedelic drugs market in the next several years. A reportfrom Data Bridge Market Research projected that the psychedelic drugs market is expected to gain market growth in the forecast period of 2021 to 2028. Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the market is growing with a CAGR of 11.5% in the forecast period of 2021 to 2028 and is expected to reach USD 6,433.94 Million by 2028. Active companies in the markets this week include: COMPASS Pathways plc (NASDAQ: CMPS), Silo Pharma, Inc. (OTCQB: SILO),MindMed Inc.(NASDAQ: MNMD), Numinus Wellness Inc. (OTCPK: LKYSF)(TSXV: NUMI), Cybin Inc.(OTCQB:CLXPF) (NEO:CYBN).
But another reportfrom ResearchAndMarkets shows even more optimism in the market prediction that The Psychedelic Drugs Market size is projected to reach USD 10.75 Billion by 2027, from USD 4.75 Bn in 2020 growing at a CAGR of 12.36% during 2021-2027. The awareness campaigns have encouraged people to select appropriate treatment for mental disorders procedures and professionals which is increasing the demand of psychedelic drugs and the rising awareness towards mental health is acting as a driver for the psychedelic drugs market Increasing research and development expenditure in the psychedelic drugs is creating new opportunities in the psychedelic drugs market, thus increasing R&D activities in psychedelic drugs is acting as an opportunity for the growth of the psychedelic drugs market."
Silo Pharma, Inc. (OTCQB: SILO) BREAKING NEWS: Silo Pharma Announces Collaboration with University California San Francisco to study Psilocybin as an Anti-Inflammatory agent in Parkinson's and Bipolar Patients - Silo Pharma, Inc., a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the use of psychedelics as a therapeutic, is pleased to announce that it hasentered into a Scientific Research Agreement (SRA) with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). This SRA will leverage four other clinical trials being planned by the university, to determine the effects of psilocybin on inflammatory markers of patients who have exhibited Parkinson's, Bipolar disorder, and chronic back pain.
Eric Weisblum, CEO of Silo Pharma commented "Inflammation is a common mechanism across numerous physical diseases. Inflammation has specifically been implicated in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's Disease,chronic pain, and bipolar disorder. Psilocybin and related compounds have shown strong anti-inflammatory effects in non-human animals, raising the possibility that reducing inflammation is a possible mechanism underlying psilocybin's positive treatment effects in multiple disorders. A better understanding of the anti-inflammatory effects of psilocybin has potential to allow for optimization and personalization of psilocybin treatment."
The study will take place at The Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program at UCSF. The TrPR brings together scientists and care providers across disciplines to understand how psilocybin, LSD, ketamine, MDMA, and related compounds impact the brain and other organ systems. The goal at TrPR is to accelerate progress towards impactful and accessible psychedelic treatments. Formoreinformation,visit http://www.silopharma.com
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Other recent developments in the markets include:
COMPASS Pathways plc (NASDAQ: CMPS), a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health, has recently reported further results from a phase I study showing that its COMP360 psilocybin had no clinically-relevant negative effect on cognitive function, when administered to healthy adult volunteers with support from specially trained therapists.
The data from the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase I trial conducted at King's College London, will be presented today at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) Annual Meeting, by Dr James Rucker, Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychopharmacology at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). Initial results from the study were published in December 2019. The results published today present a more in-depth analysis of cognitive data and showed some trends of positive effects, but these were minor and call for further exploration in clinical populations.
MindMed(NASDAQ: MNMD), a leading psychedelic medicine biotech company, recently announced the publication of the first pharmacogenetic data on LSD to help personalize dosing. The study results from a pooled secondary analysis of four Phase 1 studies that each used a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design and were conducted at the University Hospital Basel Liechti Lab, inBasel, Switzerland.
The results of this study indicate that pharmacogenetic testing prior to LSD-assisted treatment may inform LSD dose selection at the individual patient level. Dr.Matthias Liechtisaid, "This is the first data on the pharmacogenetics of LSD. The results indicate that a test of the metabolic function of a patient by CYP2D6 phenotyping and genotyping can be used to adjust the dose of LSD. Such information is important for the further development of LSD into a medication and could ultimately help to personalize patient treatment."
Cybin Inc.(OTCQB:CLXPF) (NEO:CYBN), a biotechnology company focused on progressing psychedelic therapeutics, recently announced the sponsorship of Kernel's feasibility study of its Kernel Flow technology to measure Ketamine's psychedelic effect on cerebral cortex hemodynamics.
On January 11, 2021 Cybin announced that it would be partnering with Kernel to leverage Kernel's proprietary Kernel Flow device for psychedelic-based studies and clinical trials. The Kernel Flow device is the first-of-its-kind that uses quantitative neuroimaging technology that can measure brain activity in real time using a wearable helmet during psychedelic treatments.
Numinus Wellness Inc. (OTCPK: LKYSF)(TSXV: NUMI), a mental health care company advancing innovative treatments and safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies, andOptimi Health Corp.(CSE: OPTI) (OTC: OPTHF) (FRA: 8BN), developers of a vertically integrated functional mushroom brand focused on the health and wellness sector, have met another early milestone in the development of an initial all natural psilocybin extract.
Optimi and Numinus, through Impact Clinical Trials Accelerator at theUniversity of Calgary("Impact"), have submitted a pre-clinical trial application to Health Canada for review and comment. Meanwhile, cultivation, research, formulation and continuous validation studies to produce the investigational psilocybin extract for trial continue at the Health Canada-licensed Numinus lab inBritish Columbia, Canada.
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Next Super Stocks on the Move: Tetra Bio-Pharma, Red Light – GlobeNewswire
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NEW YORK, June 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wall Street Reporter, the trusted name in financial news since 1843, is highlighting the latest CEO comments and news from companies recently presenting at its highly acclaimed NEXT SUPER STOCK livestream investor conferences, and investor LiveChats on social media streams. Over 170,000 investors have participated in Wall Street Reporters livestream events in the past 30 days.
Red Light Holland (OTC: TRUFF) (CSE: TRIP) CEO Todd Shapiro: Psychedelics is Next Billion Dollar Market Opportunity
In a recent presentation on Wall Street Reporters NEXT SUPER STOCK livestream, Red Light Holland (OTC: TRUFF) (CSE: TRIP), CEO Todd Shapiro updated investors on the TRUFFs latest market expansion and success in the psychedelics sector, and major new growth opportunities in coming months. TRUFF produces and sells recreational grade psychedelic Magic Truffles to the current legal adult use market in the Netherlands, and is planning global expansion as legislation is rapidly changing globally.
TRUFF: The Tesla of Psychedelics
Todd was joined by cannabis industry pioneer and TRUFF advisory board chairman, Bruce Linton who shared his perspective on TRUFFs growth opportunities. Also joining the livestream was TRUFF CTO Sarah Hashkes who shared the companys unique technology-driven marketing and branding strategy for psychedelics, which has been likened by some investors as the Tesla of Psychedelics
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June 10 - TRUFF closes acquisition of 80% stake in Happy Caps Mushroom Farm based in in Nova Scotia, Canada. Happy Caps is a unique gourmet mushroom farm, cleverly positioned in the mushroom plug spawn business, selling fresh mushrooms for the wholesale market and specializing in 'grow your own mushroom kits' with sales in Canada and the United States. The transaction is immediately revenue accretive, and the Company will aggressively pursue additional revenue growth opportunities, including potentially introducing Happy Caps' products to Europe via SR Wholesale, RLH Netherlands B.V.'s wholly-owned wholesale company which has established a distribution network of over 400 companies that sell products across Europe.
June 8 - TRUFF closes acquisition of Radix Motion Inc., a technology and innovation company focused on empowering the psychedelic ecosystem with embodied technology, including augmented reality, virtual reality, and interactive holograms. "Psychedelics increase the plasticity in our brain and I believe the future of psychedelics will be using technology like ours to create support structures and customizable settings that will allow for tight feedback loops to help people achieve personal growth," said Sarah Hashkes, the CEO of Radix Motion and CTIO of Red Light Holland. "The broader vision we have for Radix Motion is utilizing my neuroscience research in movement data and psychedelics with Co-Founder Matthew Hoe's expertise in immersive technology and AR/VR to create healthy bridges between our body and technology. With Red Light Holland's support, we can further our vision and build technology that increases the bandwidth of human connection by linking us to our body and to each other in alignment with the magic of psychedelics."
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Tetra Bio-Pharma (OTC: TBPMF) (TSX: TBP) CEO, Dr. Guy Chamberland: Expecting to Launch 3 New Cannabinoid-Derived Drugs in 2022 - Addressing $200 Billion Market Opportunities
In a recent presentation at Wall Street Reporters NEXT SUPER STOCK livestream, Tetra Bio-Pharma (OTC: TBPMF) CEO, Dr. Guy Chamberland shared TBPMFs advanced pipeline of cannabinoid derived drugs targeting $200 billion addressable market opportunities including pain, inflammation, oncology, and sepsis.
TBPMF boasts one of the most advanced pipelines of Cannabinoid-derived medicines, supported by the urgent need for non-opioid alternatives to treat pain and inflammation. Significantly, TBPMFs portfolio of IP and patents is spearheaded by a team experienced at bringing new drugs to market.
TBPMF now has 3 drugs in the advanced clinical stages, which it expects to bring to market in 2022: Quixleef targeting pain management, a $58 billion market opportunity, ARDS-003 immunomodulator which is a $132 billion market opportunity, and PPP-003 for ophthalmic inflammation indication - a $31 billion market.
Compelling for investors, TBMPF has multiple near-term catalysts in place, and with a current valuation of about $50 million, TBPMF is trading at a just a small fraction of its peer group in the biotech space, with similar pipelines.
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June 2 - TBPMF announces Health Canada has accepted its New Drug Submission (NDS) for REDUVO and has formally entered the final review phase in the drug review process. If successful, REDUVO will be issued a Notice of Compliance (NOC) as well as a Drug Identification Number (DIN) which permits Tetra to market the drug in Canada and indicates the drug's official approval in Canada. REDUVO is a soft gel capsule used to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). It is also used to treat weight loss and severe nausea in people living with HIV infection. The active pharmaceutical ingredient in REDUVO is dronabinol, also known as THC, a synthetic form of the active natural substance in cannabis.
May 11 - TBPMF announces acceleration of a revolutionary Phase 2 clinical trial, PLENITUDE, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the investigational cannabis medicine, QIXLEEF, for use in managing uncontrolled pain in patients with advanced cancer.
May 6 - TBPMF announces start of REBORN1 clinical trial. This trial is designed to evaluate the effect of the Company's inhaled proprietary drug formulation, QIXLEEF, against immediate release oral morphine sulfate on onset of pain relief in people living with cancer. QIXLEEF is a botanical drug product with a "fixed ratio" of THC and CBD and is inhaled through a Class 2 medical device vaporizer. REBORN1 is being conducted in the United States in collaboration with the Hassman Research Institute, a clinical research organization, who will enroll twenty adults living with breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP) and currently taking stable opioid treatment for breakthrough pain. This innovative Phase 2 pilot, proof-of-concept open-label crossover comparison study will assess whether inhaled QIXLEEF will control BTcP faster than immediate-release morphine sulfate tablets.
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FansUnite (OTC: FUNFF) (CSE: FANS) Positioned for Exponential Revenue Growth in iGaming, E-Sports, Online Sports Betting
In their latest presentation at Wall Street Reporters NEXT SUPER STOCK livestream, FansUnite (OTC: FUNFF) (CSE: FANS) CEO Scott Burton, and President Darius Eghdami explained how FUNFFs latest distribution deal with an online casino games aggregator, sets the stage for exponential revenue growth opportunities. In the next 12 months, FUNFF plans to expand its current line from three games to twelve - while adding multiple aggregators for each game - reaching millions of new online casino customers worldwide. With each game generating as much as $500,000 in revenue per month for FUNFF - per online casino - and the potential to be in hundreds of online casinos - these numbers can quickly add up.
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May 12 - FUNFF has entered a brand partnership with Cash Live Inc. to launch FansUnite branded live games on the Cash Live mobile app. FansUnite has a minority interest in Cash Live, a tech start-up that offers a new popular poker and social casino game show platform. Cash Live is a free-to-play gaming app that is designed for mobile devices and features daily live-streamed poker game shows paying out real cash to its winners.The first branded FansUnite game will be available on Wednesday, May 12th at 6:00 pm PT and will play down to a winner in under 20 minutes. The Cash Live mobile app can be downloaded in the App Store: https://cashlivepoker.page.link/FansUnite
April 14 - FUNNF reports record $28.3M in betting volume and a 136% increase in revenue for its McBookie subsidiary in Q1 2021, compared to same period last year.
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Skylight Health Group (NASDAQ: SLHG) (TSX.V: SHG) CEO, Prad Sekar: Now At Inflection Point - Positioned for 10X Upside Revenue Growth Potential
Skylight Health Group (NASDAQ: SLHG) (TSX.V: SHG) was recently a featured presenter at Wall Street Reporters NEXT SUPER STOCK livestream investor conference. CEO Prad Sekar, outlined his vision for building Skylight into a multi-billion dollar business focused on the highly fragmented US healthcare market. Skylight already operates 30 clinics, in 14 states, with virtual telehealth overlay, serving over 120,000 patients - and is one of the fastest growing multi-disciplinary health systems in the United States.
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Skyllight is now at an inflection point. SLHG revenues are expected to be $56 million and $5.5 million EBITDA run rates, with a recently announced acquisition. SLHG boasts a profitable base of operations, no long-term debt and cash balance of $10 million. In his presentation, Skylight CEO Prad Sekar, explains how the company can increase revenues organically by about 10X, as it optimizes clinics for profitability by expansion of services to the existing patient base, with its proven business model, stating: "$200 Million Revenues Run Rate in 2021 Is Goal".
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These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI – MIT Technology Review
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Once viewed as less desirable than real data, synthetic data is now seen by some as a panacea. Real data is messy and riddled with bias. New data privacy regulations make it hard to collect. By contrast, synthetic data is pristine and can be used to build more diverse data sets. You can produce perfectly labeled faces, say, of different ages, shapes, and ethnicities to build a face-detection system that works across populations.
But synthetic data has its limitations. If it fails to reflect reality, it could end up producing even worse AI than messy, biased real-world dataor it could simply inherit the same problems. What I dont want to do is give the thumbs up to this paradigm and say, Oh, this will solve so many problems, says Cathy ONeil, a data scientist and founder of the algorithmic auditing firm ORCAA. Because it will also ignore a lot of things.
Deep learning has always been about data. But in the last few years, the AI community has learned that good data is more important than big data. Even small amounts of the right, cleanly labeled data can do more to improve an AI systems performance than 10 times the amount of uncurated data, or even a more advanced algorithm.
That changes the way companies should approach developing their AI models, says Datagens CEO and cofounder, Ofir Chakon. Today, they start by acquiring as much data as possible and then tweak and tune their algorithms for better performance. Instead, they should be doing the opposite: use the same algorithm while improving on the composition of their data.
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But collecting real-world data to perform this kind of iterative experimentation is too costly and time intensive. This is where Datagen comes in. With a synthetic data generator, teams can create and test dozens of new data sets a day to identify which one maximizes a models performance.
To ensure the realism of its data, Datagen gives its vendors detailed instructions on how many individuals to scan in each age bracket, BMI range, and ethnicity, as well as a set list of actions for them to perform, like walking around a room or drinking a soda. The vendors send back both high-fidelity static images and motion-capture data of those actions. Datagens algorithms then expand this data into hundreds of thousands of combinations. The synthesized data is sometimes then checked again. Fake faces are plotted against real faces, for example, to see if they seem realistic.
Datagen is now generating facial expressions to monitor driver alertness in smart cars, body motions to track customers in cashier-free stores, and irises and hand motions to improve the eye- and hand-tracking capabilities of VR headsets. The company says its data has already been used to develop computer-vision systems serving tens of millions of users.
Its not just synthetic humans that are being mass-manufactured. Click-Ins is a startup that uses synthetic AI to perform automated vehicle inspections. Using design software, it re-creates all car makes and models that its AI needs to recognize and then renders them with different colors, damages, and deformations under different lighting conditions, against different backgrounds. This lets the company update its AI when automakers put out new models, and helps it avoid data privacy violations in countries where license plates are considered private information and thus cannot be present in photos used to train AI.
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Mostly.ai works with financial, telecommunications, and insurance companies to provide spreadsheets of fake client data that let companies share their customer database with outside vendors in a legally compliant way. Anonymization can reduce a data sets richness yet still fail to adequately protect peoples privacy. But synthetic data can be used to generate detailed fake data sets that share the same statistical properties as a companys real data. It can also be used to simulate data that the company doesnt yet have, including a more diverse client population or scenarios like fraudulent activity.
Proponents of synthetic data say that it can help evaluate AI as well. In a recent paper published at an AI conference, Suchi Saria, an associate professor of machine learning and health care at Johns Hopkins University, and her coauthors demonstrated how data-generation techniques could be used to extrapolate different patient populations from a single set of data. This could be useful if, for example, a company only had data from New York Citys more youthful population but wanted to understand how its AI performs on an aging population with higher prevalence of diabetes. Shes now starting her own company, Bayesian Health, which will use this technique to help test medical AI systems.
But is synthetic data overhyped?
When it comes to privacy, just because the data is synthetic and does not directly correspond to real user data does not mean that it does not encode sensitive information about real people, says Aaron Roth, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. Some data generation techniques have been shown to closely reproduce images or text found in the training data, for example, while others are vulnerable to attacks that make them fully regurgitate that data.
This might be fine for a firm like Datagen, whose synthetic data isnt meant to conceal the identity of the individuals who consented to be scanned. But it would be bad news for companies that offer their solution as a way to protect sensitive financial or patient information.
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AI in Construction: Not a Heavy Lift and Needed More Than Ever – GlobeNewswire
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Portland, OR, June 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading Artificial Intelligence firm Synaptiq released its 2021 AI in Construction Industry Report, providing key insights and actionable recommendations for construction firms seeking to pursue AI-enabled innovation.
In the report, Synaptiq outlines industry leaders top objectives for business operations, productivity, and cost management, as well as emerging artificial intelligence opportunities across the project lifecycle. The report also provides insider insights, including the application of Intelligent Document Processing and a real-world Machine Vision solution currently being piloted by a large multinational construction company.
Synaptiq found that technological advancements are moving rapidly in the construction industry, touching all areas of the ecosystem. New construction technology companies are shaking up the industry, from the digital transformation of the design process to preconstruction estimation software, scheduling, predictive analytics, and asset management. With these new technologies and industry-wide digital transformation comes data and lots of it.
The deluge of data creates opportunities for AI to catalyze automation throughout the project lifecycle, from design management to preconstruction, prefabrication, construction, resource and equipment management, operations, scheduling and staffing, health and safety compliance, and project retrospectives.
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) is a specific type of process automation where technologies such as Machine Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) work together to improve output over time. IDP eliminates repetitive tasks that would otherwise be performed manually. It is particularly useful for construction companies managing a large volume of documents such as invoices, change orders, blueprints, contracts, and client correspondence, which cannot be fully processed by existing software. One immediate use-case for IDP in construction companies will be to respond to the dramatic fluctuations in the cost of wood, and handling the massive amounts of documents that result.
In Synaptiqs report, construction leaders also highlighted that getting the fundamentals right such as establishing data mastery and cultural readiness within their organizations was imperative. For some firms, it is an uphill battle to get their teams to embrace technology innovations, and many leaders are just beginning to wrap their heads around AIs potential themselves.
Regarding data, Synaptiq learned that it was not a problem of a lack of data but rather, how to find it, aggregate it, have a strategy around it, and what to do with it, according to Synaptiq CEO Stephen Sklarew.
For example, many construction companies already have cameras recording a treasure trove of data on sites, but they may not know what to do with their data, says Sklarew. By applying analytics to this stream of data, they can address productivity, compliance, and safety issues as they happen and not just retrospectively for audits. Solutions that help keep track of teams and prevent injuries can reduce a lot of stress, reduce risk, and keep projects on schedule and under budget.
Synaptiq recently developed a machine vision solution for construction companies to monitor site productivity and audit site safety where users are able to designate regions of interest in incoming video feeds, train the solution to detect any visual objects (such as people and equipment), and review reports. Detailed logs for each detected object are available as outputs to be integrated with existing back-end systems for analysis, reporting, real-time monitoring, and alerts related to project management, scheduling, health and safety, security, and other purposes.
For more information about this work or Synaptiqs other projects in construction and related industries, visit http://www.synaptiq.ai.
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DLA on the right AI path – Federal News Network
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The Defense Logistics Agency, has its origins way back in WWII. But its plunge into the world of artificial intelligence only surfaced in 2018, when the combat logistics support agency, which manages Americas massive global supply chain, hosted an enterprise-wide AI information-gathering session.
We brought about 70 people together to give them an introduction into AI, and then brainstormed ideas across the enterprise, across every business area, every different functional area to kind of get a scope on the type of projects that we may need to pursue, said Teresa Smith, DLAs Chief Data Officer, on Federal Monthly Insights Repurposing Manpower through Automation.
In partnership with DLAs Research & Development office, Smith said several projects took shape after a little brainstorming netted around 48 ideas.
David Koch, DLAs R&D chief, points to the opportunity for AI and machine learning to help improve the agencys demand-planning process as one of two big areas they intend to tackle.
When theres high demand for an item, its really easy to predict how much youre going to need and ensure you always have it on the shelf waiting for the warfighter to request it, said Koch on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. But really, when you get to low demand or infrequent-demand items, it becomes a lot harder to predict and we think that theres opportunity for artificial intelligence to help us with that journey.
DLA will be teaming up with the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center on demand planning. The other big area DLA started pursuing about a month ago is how AI might help reduce supply-chain risk.
The terms AI and machine learning are sometimes used interchangeably, but Smith points out that the first, AI, is predictive, while the other is there to constantly learn the mistakes and refine the logic going forward.
Artificial intelligence, the way we look at it is were using the machines and a host of data, and I cant emphasize enough as the chief data officer, that you cant do AI effectively without good accessible data, said Smith. But the way we look at it is AI is performing those tasks that require that human intelligence, using massive amounts of data, recognizing patterns, learning from that experience and drawing those conclusions to make predictions or to take action.
George Duchak, DLAs chief information officer, arrived at the agency in September 2019. Koch praised Duchak for the path on which he put DLA.
He had three priorities when he came in, said Koch. One of them was to improve the user experience. The second one was to create a DLA platform, so you think of kind of that single sign-on to do everything you need to do, instead of signing in multiple times for different applications. But the third one is really applicable to what were talking about today and that is creating a data architecture for AI, because as Teresa so rightly said, data is the key to being able to be successful with AI.
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Protecting the Human: Ethics in AI
When we think about the future of our worldand what exactly that looks like,itseasy tofocus on the shiny objects andtechnologythat make our lives easier: flying cars,3D printers,digital currenciesand automated everything.In the opening scene of theanimated film WALL-E which takes place in the year 2805a song fromHello, Dolly! happily plays in the background, starkly contrastingthe glimpse we get of our future planet Earth:an abandoned wastelandwithheaping piles of trash around every corner.Humans had all evacuated Earth by this point and were living inaspaceship,where futuristic technology and automation left them overweight,lazyand completely oblivious to their surroundings.Machines do everything for them, from the hoverchairs that carry them around, to therobots that prepare their food.Glued to their screens all day, which have taken control of their lives and decisions,humansexhibitlazybehaviors like video chatting the person physically next to them.
While yes, this is an animated,fictitiousfilm, many speculate that this could be somewhat of an accurate depiction of our future, and I tend to agree. Advancements in AI and technology are meant to make our lives easier,yetthey posea threat to society whenthey arenot perfect.Today, businesses andindividuals face many challenges with AI:from techand social mediagiants controlling speech ontheir platformstoservices and technologiesthat speed up processes but apply unintentional bias.When we start relying on algorithms to make decisions for us, thats whenthings begin to take a turn for the worse, and we get one inch closer to living ina place not too far off from the environment we see in WALL-E.AIcantjustbe good enough for usto create a better world for ourselves itmustbe perfect.Hereswhy:
An overreliance on AI amplifiesthe biases that weshould be eliminating.
As each year passes, the global use of AI continues to grow. While advancements in AIshould be making our lives easier,theyrealsohighlightingsome of our implicit biases thatmany are working hard to eliminate.Astudy from MITfound that gender classification systems sold byseveral major tech companies had an error rate as much as 34.4 percentage points higher for darker-skinned females than lighter-skinned males.Likely due to skewed data sets,examples like this presentamyriadofproblems in decision making, especiallyin employmentrecruitingand criminal justice systems.Algorithms that exclude female candidates fortraditionally male-dominated jobs,oralgorithmsthat determine a criminals risk score heavily weighted in appearance versus actions,are only amplifying the biases that weshould be removing.
A black-box approach to AI puts our first amendment rights at risk.
A black box systemin which users lacktransparencyofalgorithm developmentandmodel trainingalong withknowledge as towhy models make the decisions that they doisveryproblematic inthe ethics of AI. We as humans all have blind spots, so the creation of models and algorithms shouldinvolveelevatedhuman contextandnot just more powerful machines.If we punt all of our decisionsto an algorithm andwe no longer knowwhatsgoing on behind the scenes,the use of AIrisksbecomingirresponsibleat best and unethical at worst, even puttingour first amendment rights at risk.One studyfrom the University of Washingtonfound that leading AI models foridentifyinghate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely to flag tweets as offensive or hateful when they were written by African Americans.Biasesin hate-speech tools have the potential tounfairly censor speech on social media, banning only select groups ofpeople or individuals.By implementing a human-in-the-loop approach,humans get the final say in decision making and black-box bias can be avoided.
Theethical use of AIisdifficult to regulate.
When we start relying on AI to make decisions for us, it often does more harm than good.Last year, WIRED published an article calledArtificial Intelligence Makes Bad Medicine Even Worse, which highlights howdiagnoses powered by AI arent always accurate, and when they are,theyrenot alwaysnecessary to treat.Imaginegetting screened for cancer without having any symptoms and being told that you do in fact have cancer, but later finding out thatit was just something that looks like cancer, and the algorithm was wrong.Whileadvancements in AI shouldbechanging healthcare for the better,AI in an industry like this absolutely must beregulated in a way where the human is making the final decision or diagnosis, rather than a machine.If we remove the human from the equationand fail to regulate ethical AI, we riskmaking detrimental errorsin crucial, everyday processes.
Protecting the Human: Ethics in AI
AIneeds tobe better than good.To protect the human, ithas tobe perfect.If we begin to rely on machines to make decisions for uswhenthe technology is good enough, weamplify biases,risk our first amendmentrightsand fail to regulate some of the most crucial decisions.An overreliance on less-than-perfect AI may make our lives easier, but itwill also make us lazier andpotentially accepting ofpoor decisions. At what point do we begin to rely on the machine for everything? And if we do, will we all end up evacuatingan uninhabitable planet Earth,relying on hoverchairs to carry us around andmachines to prepare our food for the rest of our lives just like in WALL-E?As AI advances, we must protect the human at all costs.Perfect is the enemy of good, but for AI, it needs to be the standard.
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Decades-old ASCII adventure NetHack may hint at the future of AI – TechCrunch
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Machine learning models have already mastered Chess, Go, Atari gamesand more, but in order for it to ascend to the next level, researchers at Facebook intend for AI to take on a different kind of game: the notoriously difficult and infinitely complex NetHack.
We wanted to construct what we think is the most accessible grand challenge with this game. It wont solve AI, but it will unlock pathways towards better AI, said Facebook AI Researchs Edward Grefenstette. Games are a good domain to find our assumptions about what makes machines intelligent and break them.
You may not be familiar with NetHack, but its one of the most influential games of all time. Youre an adventurer in a fantasy world, delving through the increasingly dangerous depths of a dungeon thats different every time. You must battle monsters, navigate traps and other hazards, and meanwhile stay on good terms with your god. Its the first roguelike (after Rogue, its immediate and much simpler predecessor) and arguably still the best almost certainly the hardest.
(Its free, by the way, and you can download and play it on nearly any platform.)
Its simple ASCII graphics, using a g for a goblin, an @ for the player, lines and dots for the levels architecture, and so on, belie its incredible complexity. Because Nethack, which made its debut in 1987, has been under active development ever since, with its shifting team of developers expanding its roster of objects and creatures, rules, and the countless, countless interactions between them all.
And this is part of what makes NetHack such a difficult and interesting challenge for AI: Its so open-ended. Not only is the world different every time, but every object and creature can interact in new ways, most of them hand-coded over decades to cover every possible player choice.
NetHack with a tile-based graphics update all the information is still available via text.
Atari, Dota 2, StarCraft 2 the solutions weve had to make progress there are very interesting. NetHack just presents different challenges. You have to rely on human knowledge to play the game as a human, said Grefenstette.
In these other games, theres a more or less obvious strategy to winning. Of course its more complex in a game like Dota 2 than in an Atari 800 game, but the idea is the same there are pieces the player controls, a game board of environment, and win conditions to pursue. Thats kind of the case in NetHack, but its weirder than that. For one thing, the game is different every time, and not just in the details.
New dungeon, new world, new monsters and items, you dont have a save point. If you make a mistake and die you dont get a second shot. Its a bit like real life, said Grefenstette. You have to learn from mistakes and come to new situations armed with that knowledge.
Drinking a corrosive potion is a bad idea, of course, but what about throwing it at a monster? Coating your weapon with it? Pouring it on the lock of a treasure chest? Diluting it with water? We have intuitive ideas about these actions, but a game-playing AI doesnt think the way we do.
The depth and complexity of the systems in NetHack are difficult to explain, but that diversity and difficulty make the game a perfect candidate for a competition, according to Grefenstette. You have to rely on human knowledge to play the game, he said.
People have been designing bots to play NetHack for many years that rely not on neural networks but decision trees as complex as the game itself. The team at Facebook Research hopes to engender a new approach by building a training environment that people can test machine learning-based game-playing algorithms on.
NetHack screens with labels showing what the AI is aware of.
The NetHack Learning Environment was actually put together last year, but the NetHack Challenge is only just now getting started. The NLE is basically a version of the game embedded in a dedicated computing environment that lets an AI interact with it through text commands (directions, actions like attack or quaff)
Its a tempting target for ambitious AI designers. While games like StarCraft 2 may enjoy a higher profile in some ways, NetHack is legendary and the idea of building a model on completely different lines from those used to dominate other games is an interesting challenge.
Its also, as Grefenstette explained, a more accessible one than many in the past. If you wanted to build an AI for StarCraft 2, you needed a lot of computing power available to run visual recognition engines on the imagery from the game. But in this case the entire game is transmitted via text, making it extremely efficient to work with. It can be played thousands of times faster than any human could with even the most basic computing setup. That leaves the challenge wide open to individuals and groups who dont have access to the kind of high-power setups necessary to power other machine learning methods.
We wanted to create a research environment that had a lot of challenges for the AI community, but not restrict it to only large academic labs, he said.
For the next few months, NLE will be available for people to test on, and competitors can basically build their bot or AI by whatever means they choose. But when the competition itself starts in earnest on October 15, theyll be limited to interacting with the game in its controlled environment through standard commands no special access, no inspecting RAM, etc.
The goal of the competition will be to complete the game, and the Facebook team will track how many times the agent ascends, as its called in NetHack, in a set amount of time. But were assuming this is going to be zero for everyone, Grefenstette admitted. After all, this is one of the hardest games ever made, and even humans who have played it for years have trouble winning even once in a lifetime, let alone several times in a row. There will be other scoring metrics to judge winners in a number of categories.
The hope is that this challenge provides the seed of a new approach to AI, one that more fundamentally resembles actual human thinking. Shortcuts, trial and error, score-hacking, and zerging wont work here the agent needs to learn systems of logic and apply them flexibly and intelligently, or die horribly at the hands of an enraged centaur or owlbear.
You can check out the rules and other specifics of the NetHack Challenge here. Results will be announced at the NeurIPS conference later this year.
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Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) prone to threats by which it can be hacked? – EC-Council Blog
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how businesses used to work which is due to the high adoption of the technology in retail, financial, and technology industries. Business is advocating their efficiency and production rate increasing with artificial intelligence. Executives of organizations see artificial intelligence investment as a product with a high return on investment to the organization. Artificial intelligence is proving itself to be the backbone supporting the economic investments of the country.
In cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence is the forefront fighter in the battle of saving organizations against hackers. According to MarketsAndMarkets report, artificial intelligence is projected to be a 38.2 billion USD industry by 2026. The prominent market value projection of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity paints a great picture. Yet artificial intelligence is like a double edge sword where hackers trying to gain access to your intelligent AI devices could cause more damage to your organization than the benefits you would have thought of getting from AI. Let us find out in this blog whether Artificial intelligence is threat proof from hackers or not.
Artificial intelligence is the branch of study which focuses on the question if a machine can think? Artificial intelligence tries to develop the capability of a machine to perform and think like a human. Machine are trained to make decisions like a human. This is done to shift the workload from human to machine, thus making peoples lives easier. The low prices of chipset and increase in computing speed of computer have made it possible for a man to have to talk back machine chatbox to self-driving car etc. in the world for an affordable price of the general public. According to finacesonline.com report, around 54% of organizations and leaders think AI tools play a significant role in boosting productivity in the organization. Artificial intelligence is changing industries into the smart industry.
Today every industry is adopting artificial intelligence at a very high rate. Artificial Intelligence is bringing the workload of workers and helping organizations increase productivity with the machine. Some of the applications of AI in the market are:
The sophistication of Artificial intelligence makes it the best technology helping organizations further their goals and ambitions. Yet, suppose the Artificial Intelligence technology installed in an organization is hacked. In that case, this could be hazardous and detrimental to the company and incur loss rather than profit. It is effortless to hack an AI machine by altering the dataset and confusing the machine to predict the wrong object instead of the real object. This might not sound so dangerous, but it is enough to cause disruptive incidents and cause loss of property and lives.
A self-autonomous car dataset being hacked could result in the car unable to identify the green signal from red; it could cause the vehicle to move into the oncoming traffic and cause accidents. The autonomous missiles misidentifying the friendly target for the real target could be disastrous. The security camera fed with the wrong database could mislead face detection to allow access to unauthorized persons in critical places like airports, border checks, etc. The severity of artificial intelligence being hacked create a dilemma in the use of the system. Companies need to invest in robust Artificial intelligence security at a similar pace as the speed of adoption of AI technology. A safe and secure environment for artificial intelligence is actively looked into by governments and organizations.
Its not only cybersecurity specialists using Artificial Intelligence to defend against ethical hacking, but hackers are also using artificial intelligence to conduct dangerous attacks. The robustness in artificial intelligence security is not of primary focus for organizations, as is the adoption of AI. This is a mistake, and there needs to be more focus on the secure and safe adoption of Artificial Intelligence to safeguard ourselves against hackers. Organizations and governments need to focus more on the security aspect of artificial intelligence technology and have a dedicated team of ethical hackers to strengthen their autonomous system and protect it from hackers malicious intent. Ethical hackers are trained cybersecurity experts well-versed in protecting AI technology, computer system, and networks against hackers.
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