Lifeboat Foundation

Like China, the US sees AI as a key to both a military and economic power in the 21^st century. Both Republicans and Democrats in DC are concerned about the rate of Chinese advancement. In fact, the running joke on Capitol Hill is that the only thing they can agree on is The Chinese Threat.

Toward this end, Congress recently passed The CHIPS Act and the Executive Branch has been implementing trade controls to deny technology that they believe are critical for developing AI in China. While this desire is rational, it is unlikely to work in the mid-to long-term, and it will only increase geopolitical tension.

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Here’s a surprising fact.

Most people don’t lie most of the time. And now there is good cross-cultural research to back this up.

Algae biofuel has unlimited supplies that is also regenerative in its supply chain. It can reproduce nearly indefinitely bringing infinite supplies instead of oil which is dependent on earth this could even be used in space.

After ExxonMobil walks away, algae biofuel gets another shot at success and the US Department of Energy is here for it.

Developed in 2019 but only just discovered, this US Navy device can make people stop talking, apparently.

Scientists have designed a transistor that stores and processes information like the human brain and can perform cognitive tasks that most artificial intelligence (AI) systems today struggle with.

This technology, known as a “synaptic transistor,” mimics the architecture of the human brain — in which the processing power and memory are fully integrated and found in the same place. This differs from conventional computing architecture, in which the processor and memory are physically separate components.

The AI-guided system will stop turbines from spinning when birds are flying in the vicinity and create a safe zone.

Wind turbine collisions are responsible for over 679,000 bird deaths in the US alone every year. To protect vulnerable birds, wind farms can also be shut down.

Scientists have now leveraged deep learning to discover a new class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium.

Using deep learning models, scientists have identified a new class of antibiotic compounds that can work against resistant strains like MRSA.

Starship’s previous two flights were partially successful in April and November but ended in explosions before reaching their intended destinations.

Abstract Here we represent human lives in a way that shares structural similarity to language, and we exploit this similarity to adapt natural language processing techniques to examine the evolution and predictability of human lives based on detailed event sequences.

Using registry data from Denmark, Lehmann et al. create individual-level trajectories of events related to health, education, occupation, income and address, and also apply transformer models to build rich embeddings of life-events and to predict outcomes ranging from time of death to personality.