Editor’s Note: This is the second in a weekly series of articles about artificial intelligence in San Diego.
This is about three things — the good, the bad and the ugly.
Or…artificial intelligence.

An AI startup that seeks to improve patient outcomes by rapidly discovering hidden patterns in life sciences data has named a UC San Diego Health physician and professor to its advisory board.

California Sen. Alex Padilla Tuesday touted more than $25.5 million in potential federal funding for 17 projects across the San Diego region in Congress’ first package of Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills.

We already know that OpenAI’s chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school. Now, just in time for the Oscars, a new OpenAI app called Sora hopes to master cinema without going to film school. For now a research product, Sora is going out to a few select creators and a number of security experts who will red-team it for safety vulnerabilities. OpenAI plans to make it available to all wannabe auteurs at some unspecified date, but it decided to preview it in advance.