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The new agreement “in principle” involves a new board being installed, the tech company said.

Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure Superconductor? We shall see. But video is hopeful, currents are practical…

Increase your recognition in the scientific world with short video-casts.

GPT-5 isn’t being developed, but who cares when GPT-4 isn’t yet understood.

By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.

Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ) to Noam Chomsky (NYTimes) in just the last month. That sure is some hype level.

Way back in the early history of GPTs, January 1^st this year, I wrote briefly about them and said:

“The construction of the storage went well, especially considering that the solution is completely new,” said Polar Night co-founder and chief technology officer Markku Ylönen in a statement.

“We managed to get everything in order despite some challenges and a short delay.”

He said the first installation has shown that the system “has even more potential than we initially calculated”.

UPI, an cheap(currently free), proven, alternative payments system designed to be secure, reliable, and interoperable among different payment companies, encouraging a innovative ecosystem.

India’s UPI payment platform is delivering on financial inclusion in ways that Bitcoin and blockchain have yet to do.

Update your world view. Excellent book.

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The oil kingdom fears that its population is aging at an accelerated rate and hopes to test drugs to reverse the problem. First up might be the diabetes drug metformin.

Transhumanism is a movement that aims to address – or end – what Bohan calls the “tragedies of reality”: ageing, sickness and involuntary death. It is, she writes, “a philosophy and a project that aims to make us more than human”.

Whether we recognise or understand it, that project has already begun, she says, and it will transform our world – and minds and bodies – within our lifetimes. Not only is it happening, she says, but this transition is necessary if humanity is to survive in perpetuity.

For Bohan, it is no great to leap to imagine that a baby born in 2030 may have its entire genome mapped at birth, that data uploaded to a central health record and cross-referenced at any medical appointment throughout its life. It is no great stretch to think that AI will become the most powerful intellectual force of the century. That human consciousness might be transferred from our “meat sacks” (bodies) into a technological sphere. That the rise of AI and automation might render great swathes of human labour redundant, and that maybe – if we get it right – that could leave more time for leisure, big thinking, meditation, connection.