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Nov 29, 2023

Seratech bakes bricks overnight using CO2 captured from factories

Posted by in categories: education, engineering, sustainability

To commercialize the carbon-neutral bricks, Seratech is working together with a team of architects at London-based Carmody Groarke.


Saratech.

The brick is a product of 18 months of research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).

Nov 29, 2023

Google DeepMind Unveils New AI Tool to Discover New Materials

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

Google DeepMind and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers recently introduced Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME), an AI tool to discover new materials and predict material stability.

“We are releasing 381K stable materials to help scientists pursue materials discovery breakthroughs,” said Pushmeet Kohli, head of research (AI for science, robustness and reliability) at DeepMind.

Check out the GitHub repository here.

Nov 29, 2023

The Interplanetary War

Posted by in categories: military, space

Space Warfare concepts from science fiction often involve war between planets, and we will discuss the science of that, and war inside a fully colonized solar system or Dyson Swarm.

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Nov 29, 2023

U.S, U.K. And 16 Other Nations Agree On AI Security Guidelines

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

Eighteen countries have signed an agreement on AI safety, based on the principle that it should be secure by design.

The Guidelines for Secure AI System Development, led by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre and developed with the U.S.’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, are touted as the first global agreement of their kind.

They’re aimed mainly at providers of AI systems that are using models hosted by an organization, or that are using external application programming interfaces. The aim is to help developers make sure that cybersecurity is baked in as an essential pre-condition of AI system safety and integral to the development process, from the start and throughout.

Nov 29, 2023

AI imaging software generates a gallery of stereotypes, say Univ. of Washington researchers

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

BOT or NOT?


If you’re asked to imagine a person from North America or a woman from Venezuela, what do they look like? If you give an AI-powered imaging program the same prompts, odds are the software will generate stereotypical responses.

A “person” will usually be male and light-skinned.

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Nov 29, 2023

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: AI guardrails “aren’t enough”

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

Guardrails AI companies add to their products to prevent them from causing harm “aren’t enough” to control AI capabilities that could endanger humanity within five to ten years, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Axios’ Mike Allen on Tuesday.

The big picture: Interviewed at Axios’ AI+ Summit in Washington, D.C., Schmidt compared the development of AI to the introduction of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War.

Nov 29, 2023

AI won’t steal your job—but it might cut your paycheck, Europe’s central bank says

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Since the explosive launch of ChatGPT, there has been a prevailing fear among workers that they will be unable to compete against artificial intelligence, leading to mass unemployment.


In fact, the European Central Bank’s research predicted that AI will actually create jobs and that any reports suggesting otherwise “may be greatly exaggerated”

After assessing nine years of data gathered across 16 European countries, the ECB found that low and medium-skill jobs were largely unaffected by booming technology, meanwhile, opportunities for younger and high-skilled workers actually increased rather than vanished.

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Nov 29, 2023

The US is racing ahead in its bid to control artificial intelligence — why is the EU so far behind?

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Washington is laying down rules for the use of seemingly mundane AI that could, in fact, be incredibly dangerous.

Between fancy global summits, OpenAI’s boardroom drama and rumoured technical breakthroughs, the world has recently been paying close attention to the frontiers of AI research.

Nov 29, 2023

This new AI animation tool is blowing people’s minds

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

More AI tools are popping up to advance features of the popular generators that are already available, and the latest one is blowing people’s minds.


The AI research company, Runway lets you beef up your generative AI images with its new Motion Brush that’s a part of its latest update.

Nov 29, 2023

Why the UN climate talks are a moment of reckoning for oil and gas companies

Posted by in category: climatology

This week’s COP28 meetings in Dubai show how fossil-fuel companies might be able to contribute to climate progress, and what will happen if they don’t.

The United Arab Emirates is one of the world’s largest oil producers.