futurism – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:23:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Human-like Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/human-like-episodic-memory-for-infinite-context-llms https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/human-like-episodic-memory-for-infinite-context-llms#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:23:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/human-like-episodic-memory-for-infinite-context-llms

Zafeirios Fountas, Martin A Benfeghoul, Adnan Oomerjee, Fenia Christopoulou, Gerasimos Lampouras, Haitham Bou-Ammar, Jun Wang Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab London & University College London.

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Google Researchers Say They Simulated the Emergence of Life https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/google-researchers-say-they-simulated-the-emergence-of-life https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/google-researchers-say-they-simulated-the-emergence-of-life#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2024 22:25:10 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/google-researchers-say-they-simulated-the-emergence-of-life

A experiment that simulated random interactions for millions of generations led to the emergence of a digital form of life.

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Huawei officially opens its 2,600-acre R&D center in Shanghai, will accommodate over 35,000 scientists and engineers https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/huawei-officially-opens-its-2600-acre-rd-center-in-shanghai-will-accommodate-over-35000-scientists-and-engineers https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/huawei-officially-opens-its-2600-acre-rd-center-in-shanghai-will-accommodate-over-35000-scientists-and-engineers#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2024 22:23:19 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/huawei-officially-opens-its-2600-acre-rd-center-in-shanghai-will-accommodate-over-35000-scientists-and-engineers

This facility is larger than Apple Park and Microsoft’s Redmond Campus, combined.

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The Perseid Meteor Shower Begins Today: When To See It At Its Best https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-perseid-meteor-shower-begins-today-when-to-see-it-at-its-best https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-perseid-meteor-shower-begins-today-when-to-see-it-at-its-best#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:24:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-perseid-meteor-shower-begins-today-when-to-see-it-at-its-best

Tonight sees the beginning of the year’s popular annual meteor shower that brings the most prolific displays—the Perseids. This year, it will peak in moonless skies.

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Anole: An Open, Autoregressive, Native Large Multimodal Model for Interleaved Image-Text Generation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/anole-an-open-autoregressive-native-large-multimodal-model-for-interleaved-image-text-generation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/anole-an-open-autoregressive-native-large-multimodal-model-for-interleaved-image-text-generation#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:22:45 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/anole-an-open-autoregressive-native-large-multimodal-model-for-interleaved-image-text-generation

Existing open-source large multimodal models (LMMs) face several significant limitations.

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Insight into one of life’s earliest ancestors revealed in new study https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/insight-into-one-of-lifes-earliest-ancestors-revealed-in-new-study https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/insight-into-one-of-lifes-earliest-ancestors-revealed-in-new-study#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:22:52 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/insight-into-one-of-lifes-earliest-ancestors-revealed-in-new-study

An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in polar fluids https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/spontaneous-symmetry-breaking-in-polar-fluids https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/spontaneous-symmetry-breaking-in-polar-fluids#respond Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:23:16 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/spontaneous-symmetry-breaking-in-polar-fluids

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and emergent polar order are key to liquid crystal phase behaviour. This study reveals two new polar liquid states with lamellar structures, providing novel insights into electrical analogues of magnetic spin structures.

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Construction begins on $5 billion transmission line to open up wind, solar and minerals https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/construction-begins-on-5-billion-transmission-line-to-open-up-wind-solar-and-minerals https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/construction-begins-on-5-billion-transmission-line-to-open-up-wind-solar-and-minerals#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:26:50 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/construction-begins-on-5-billion-transmission-line-to-open-up-wind-solar-and-minerals

The $5 billion CopperString project will connect Queensland’s northwest to the grid through an 840km power line running from south of Townsville to Mount Isa.

Set to be finished by 2029, CopperString has been described as the region’s “most transformative project since steam locomotives” in the 19th century.

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TencentARC/SEED-Story https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/tencentarc-seed-story https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/tencentarc-seed-story#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:25:58 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/tencentarc-seed-story

Multimodal Long Story Generation with Large Language Model https://huggingface.co/papers/2407.

With the remarkable advancements in image generation and open-form text generation, the creation of interleaved image-text content has become an…


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Create Procedural Crowds of People With This Cool Blender Add-on https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/create-procedural-crowds-of-people-with-this-cool-blender-add-on https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/create-procedural-crowds-of-people-with-this-cool-blender-add-on#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:22:48 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/create-procedural-crowds-of-people-with-this-cool-blender-add-on

Difffuse Studio has launched Procedural Crowds Pro, a new and improved version of their popular Geometry Nodes-powered add-on for Blender that enables you to quickly and easily populate your 3D environments with sizeable groups of characters.

Featuring over 30 unique photoscanned character models, the plug-in allows you to generate and customize various types of crowds, with options including an audience crowd, a circle crowd, follow curve, a marching formation, a random crowd, and more. The animations of the human characters will vary depending on the type of crowd you choose, including Idle, Walk, or Cheering. Moreover, the toolset also includes a neat feature that lets you add individual human characters and assign animations from a pre-defined list.

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