When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off
Matthew Smith | IEEE Spectrum
“The subsequent nice chatbot will run at lighting velocity in your laptop computer PC—no web connection required. …Each large title in shopper tech, from Apple to Qualcomm, is racing to optimize its {hardware} and software program to run synthetic intelligence on the ‘edge’—which means on native {hardware}, not distant cloud servers. The objective? Customized, personal AI so seamless you may neglect it’s ‘AI’ in any respect.”
The ‘Self-Working’ Laptop Emerges
Bryson Masse | VentureBeat
“As [OthersideAI developer Josh] Bickett described, the [self-operating computer] framework ‘lets the AI management each the mouse the place it clicks and all of the keyboard triggers basically. It’s like an agent like autoGPT besides it’s not textual content based mostly. It’s imaginative and prescient based mostly so it takes a screenshot of the pc after which it decides mouse clicks and keyboards, precisely like an individual would.’”
These Clues Trace on the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q* Venture
Will Knight | Wired
“Studies of a mysterious breakthrough known as Q* at OpenAI sparked anxious rumors. …What might Q* be? Combining a detailed learn of the preliminary experiences with consideration of the most popular issues in AI proper now suggests it might be associated to a mission that OpenAI introduced in Might, claiming highly effective new outcomes from a method known as ‘course of supervision.’ The mission concerned Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and cofounder, who helped oust Altman however later recanted—The Data says he led work on Q*.”
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI
Charles Duhigg | The New Yorker
“At round 11:30 am on the Friday earlier than Thanksgiving, Microsoft’s chief govt, Satya Nadella, was having his weekly assembly with senior leaders when a panicked colleague instructed him to select up the cellphone. An govt from OpenAI, a man-made intelligence startup into which Microsoft had invested a reported 13 billion {dollars}, was calling to clarify that throughout the subsequent twenty minutes the corporate’s board would announce that it had fired Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder.”
Might a Drug Give Your Pet Extra Canine Years?
Emily Anthes | The New York Instances
“Growing old could also be an inevitability, however it isn’t an unyielding one. Scientists have created longer-lived worms, flies, and mice by tweaking key aging-related genes. These findings have raised the tantalizing chance that scientists may be capable to discover medication that had the identical life-extending results in folks. That is still an energetic space of analysis, however canine longevity has not too long ago began to draw extra consideration, partly as a result of canine are good fashions for human getting older and partly as a result of many pet homeowners would love extra time with their furry relations.”
Making an Picture With Generative AI Makes use of as A lot Power as Charging Your Cellphone
Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Know-how Evaluation
“That is the primary time the carbon emissions triggered by utilizing an AI mannequin for various duties have been calculated. …Luccioni and her workforce seemed on the emissions related to 10 standard AI duties on the Hugging Face platform, reminiscent of query answering, textual content era, picture classification, captioning, and picture era. They ran the experiments on 88 totally different fashions.”
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Admit It, the Cybertruck Is Superior
Saahil Desai | The Atlantic
“‘This automotive may be very amateurish,’ Adrian Clarke, a former automotive designer for Land Rover and a author for the Autopian, instructed me. However not less than it’s totally different. Most different EVs can’t say as a lot, despite the fact that the electrical age can and must be an opportunity to make vehicles not simply tougher, sooner, stronger, and higher, but additionally stranger.”
Robots Constructed from Human Cells Can Transfer on Their Personal and Heal Wounds
Philip Ball | Scientific American
“In 2020 biologist Michael Levin and his colleagues reported that they’d made ‘organic robots’ by shaping clusters of [frog] cells into tiny synthetic varieties that would ‘stroll’ round on surfaces. …Some researchers argued that such conduct wasn’t so stunning within the cells of amphibians, that are famend for his or her skill to regenerate physique elements if broken. However now Levin and his colleagues at Tufts College report in Superior Science that they’ve made comparable ‘robotlike’ entities from human cells. They name them anthrobots.”
Precisely How A lot Life Is on Earth?
Dennis Overbye | The New York Instances
“What’s in a quantity? In accordance with a latest calculation by a workforce of biologists and geologists, there are a extra residing cells on Earth—1,000,000 trillion trillion, or 10^30 in math notation, a 1 adopted by 30 zeros—than there are stars within the universe or grains of sand on our planet.”
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