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 massive identify in client tech, from Apple to Qualcomm, is racing to optimize its {hardware} and software program to run synthetic intelligence on the ‘edge’—that means on native {hardware}, not distant cloud servers. The objective? Customized, non-public AI so seamless you would possibly neglect it’s ‘AI’ in any respect.”
The ‘Self-Working’ Pc 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 primarily. It’s like an agent like autoGPT besides it’s not textual content primarily based. It’s imaginative and prescient primarily based 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* Mission
Will Knight | Wired
“Reviews of a mysterious breakthrough referred to as Q* at OpenAI sparked anxious rumors. …What might Q* be? Combining an in depth learn of the preliminary stories with consideration of the most popular issues in AI proper now suggests it could be associated to a venture that OpenAI introduced in Could, claiming highly effective new outcomes from a way referred to as ‘course of supervision.’ The venture 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 government, Satya Nadella, was having his weekly assembly with senior leaders when a panicked colleague instructed him to select up the telephone. An government from OpenAI, a synthetic intelligence startup into which Microsoft had invested a reported 13 billion {dollars}, was calling to elucidate 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’s not an unyielding one. Scientists have created longer-lived worms, flies, and mice by tweaking key aging-related genes. These findings have raised the tantalizing risk that scientists would possibly have the ability to discover medicine that had the identical life-extending results in individuals. That continues to be an lively space of analysis, however canine longevity has lately began to draw extra consideration, partly as a result of canines are good fashions for human ageing and partly as a result of many pet house owners would love extra time with their furry members of the family.”
Making an Picture With Generative AI Makes use of as A lot Vitality as Charging Your Telephone
Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Know-how Evaluation
“That is the primary time the carbon emissions prompted by utilizing an AI mannequin for various duties have been calculated. …Luccioni and her group seemed on the emissions related to 10 standard AI duties on the Hugging Face platform, reminiscent of query answering, textual content technology, picture classification, captioning, and picture technology. They ran the experiments on 88 completely different fashions.”
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Admit It, the Cybertruck Is Superior
Saahil Desai | The Atlantic
“‘This automobile may be very amateurish,’ Adrian Clarke, a former automobile designer for Land Rover and a author for the Autopian, instructed me. However at the least it’s completely different. Most different EVs can’t say as a lot, despite the fact that the electrical age can and needs to be an opportunity to make automobiles not simply tougher, sooner, stronger, and higher, but additionally stranger.”
Robots Created 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 that they had made ‘organic robots’ by shaping clusters of [frog] cells into tiny synthetic varieties that might ‘stroll’ round on surfaces. …Some researchers argued that such conduct wasn’t so shocking within the cells of amphibians, that are famend for his or her capacity to regenerate physique elements if broken. However now Levin and his colleagues at Tufts College report in Superior Science that they’ve made related ‘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 response to a current calculation by a group of biologists and geologists, there are a extra dwelling cells on Earth—one million 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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