Dan Kummer – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 06 Aug 2024 03:24:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Forget Ozempic. Celebrities are all in on taking a new anti-aging drug https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/forget-ozempic-celebrities-are-all-in-on-taking-a-new-anti-aging-drug https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/forget-ozempic-celebrities-are-all-in-on-taking-a-new-anti-aging-drug#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2024 03:24:15 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/forget-ozempic-celebrities-are-all-in-on-taking-a-new-anti-aging-drug

Sorry, lol, i had to.

‘I’m never going to age’


It’s a crucial support to most everything our body does. When we’re young, our body is efficient at producing NAD.

As people age, production slowly tapers — which studies suggest might be one of the reasons we tend to feel worse as we get older.

But scientists caution that they have yet to design a NAD product that our body can use in the same way that it uses the NAD we produce naturally.

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Watch a robot peel a squash with human-like dexterity https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/watch-a-robot-peel-a-squash-with-human-like-dexterity https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/watch-a-robot-peel-a-squash-with-human-like-dexterity#respond Sat, 03 Aug 2024 07:23:07 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/watch-a-robot-peel-a-squash-with-human-like-dexterity

Would be more impressive if it was attached to a humanoid robot body.


A robot can hold a squash, pumpkin or melon in one hand, while it is peeled by the other.

By Alex Wilkins

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Electrically powered artificial muscle fibers: The new power for soft actuation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/electrically-powered-artificial-muscle-fibers-the-new-power-for-soft-actuation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/electrically-powered-artificial-muscle-fibers-the-new-power-for-soft-actuation#respond Sat, 03 Aug 2024 07:22:45 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/electrically-powered-artificial-muscle-fibers-the-new-power-for-soft-actuation

Electrically powered artificial muscle fibers (EAMFs) are emerging as a revolutionary power source for advanced robotics and wearable devices. Renowned for their exceptional mechanical properties, integration flexibility, and functional versatility, EAMFs are at the forefront of cutting-edge innovation.

A recent review article on this topic was published online in the National Science Review (“Emerging Innovations in Electrically Powered Artificial Muscle Fibers”).

Schematic of electrically powered artificial muscle fibers categorized from the mechanism, material components, and configurations, as well as their application fields. (Image: Science China Press)

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Baidu’s self-reasoning AI: The end of ‘hallucinating’ language models? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/baidus-self-reasoning-ai-the-end-of-hallucinating-language-models https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/baidus-self-reasoning-ai-the-end-of-hallucinating-language-models#respond Sat, 03 Aug 2024 05:22:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/baidus-self-reasoning-ai-the-end-of-hallucinating-language-models

Baidu’s novel self-reasoning AI framework aims to enhance language model reliability, potentially eliminating ‘hallucinations’ and setting new standards for AI accuracy and transparency.

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Meta plans to use 10 times more compute to train its next-generation Llama 4 AI model https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/meta-plans-to-use-10-times-more-compute-to-train-its-next-generation-llama-4-ai-model https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/meta-plans-to-use-10-times-more-compute-to-train-its-next-generation-llama-4-ai-model#respond Fri, 02 Aug 2024 05:22:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/meta-plans-to-use-10-times-more-compute-to-train-its-next-generation-llama-4-ai-model

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes open-source language models like Llama are the future of AI. The company is investing heavily in computing power for its next-generation model and expects AI chatbots to become ubiquitous on websites soon.

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“I think we’ll look back on Llama 3.1 as a turning point in the industry, where open-source AI started to become the industry standard, like Linux,” Zuckerberg said during the latest earnings call.

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Former GTA dev says ‘it’s time for a revolution’ where ‘animation is more AI-driven and physics-driven’ than done by hand https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/former-gta-dev-says-its-time-for-a-revolution-where-animation-is-more-ai-driven-and-physics-driven-than-done-by-hand https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/former-gta-dev-says-its-time-for-a-revolution-where-animation-is-more-ai-driven-and-physics-driven-than-done-by-hand#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:24:36 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/former-gta-dev-says-its-time-for-a-revolution-where-animation-is-more-ai-driven-and-physics-driven-than-done-by-hand

2029–2030


“If anyone is going to make that step it’s going to be Rockstar,” said Obbe Vermeij, former technical director at Rockstar North.

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Meta’s future is AI, AI, and more AI https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/metas-future-is-ai-ai-and-more-ai https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/metas-future-is-ai-ai-and-more-ai#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:24:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/metas-future-is-ai-ai-and-more-ai

On Meta’s Wednesday earnings call, CFO Susan Li reiterated to investors that financial returns from its recent AI investments will “come in over a longer period of time.” Zuckerberg was direct about why Meta is spending billions on Nvidia hardware and the other infrastructure ahead of these future returns: “It’s hard to predict how this will trend multiple generations into the future, but at this point, I’d rather risk building capacity before it is needed rather than too late.”

He again telegraphed that the Meta AI assistant is on track to be the most used in the world before the end of the year. While he touted that generative AI features “are things that I think will increase engagement in our products,” he said the real revenue will come from business use cases, like AI creating ads from scratch and letting businesses operate their own AI agents in WhatsApp for customer service.

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Midjourney releases V6.1 model, which is faster and “generally more beautiful” https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/midjourney-releases-v6-1-model-which-is-faster-and-generally-more-beautiful https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/midjourney-releases-v6-1-model-which-is-faster-and-generally-more-beautiful#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:24:09 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/midjourney-releases-v6-1-model-which-is-faster-and-generally-more-beautiful

More than six months after the last update, Midjourney has released a new image model — but it’s a smaller jump.

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Midjourney CEO David Holz announced version 6.1 of the company’s image model via Discord. This new version builds on V6, released in late December, and promises more coherent, detailed, and visually appealing results.

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Wix’s AI will now write whole blog posts for you https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/wixs-ai-will-now-write-whole-blog-posts-for-you https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/wixs-ai-will-now-write-whole-blog-posts-for-you#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:23:53 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/wixs-ai-will-now-write-whole-blog-posts-for-you

You can even choose SEO keywords to litter throughout.

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BHP’s Spence copper mine in Chile now fully autonomous https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/bhps-spence-copper-mine-in-chile-now-fully-autonomous https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/bhps-spence-copper-mine-in-chile-now-fully-autonomous#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2024 03:22:23 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/bhps-spence-copper-mine-in-chile-now-fully-autonomous

BHP’s (ASX, NYSE: BHP) Spence copper mine in Chile has celebrated three months of being the company’s first fully autonomous operation, a status reached in April after a two-year journey that included converting its trucks fleet and drilling rigs.

Spence, which produced 249,000 tonnes of copper last year, is BHP’s second largest copper mine behind Escondida, the world’s biggest copper operation. In the three months to July 29, the copper operation has moved 80 million tonnes of material without any safety incidents, surpassing the production plan to date, BHP said.

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