Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 453
May 24, 2022
B-21 Raider First Flight Now Postponed to 2023
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
May 22, 2022
U.S. pledges $3.5 billion for direct air capture
Posted by Future Timeline in category: futurism
This week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a multibillion-dollar program to develop carbon dioxide removal technologies.
May 21, 2022
Meta won’t build a dedicated metaverse after all, exec says
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
An interesting development, you could say revision, or even a back-tracking on the vision for just what it is that Meta plans to build, eventually.
I think it’s important to keep in mind, despite the excitement, that these technologies are still experimental in many ways, they take time to develop, and they will change. Keeping this in mind can help to temper our expectations, but also to spot the hype.
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May 20, 2022
Selection-Inference: Exploiting Large Language Models for Interpretable Logical Reasoning
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: futurism
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be capable of impressive.
few-shot generalisation to new tasks. However, they still tend to perform.
poorly on multi-step logical reasoning problems. Here we carry out a.
comprehensive evaluation of LLMs on 50 tasks that probe different aspects of.
Logical reasoning. We show that language models tend to perform fairly well at.
Single step inference or entailment tasks, but struggle to chain together.
multiple reasoning steps to solve more complex problems. In light of this, we.
May 20, 2022
DARPA reveals a new heavy-lift seaplane concept that can sense large waves
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
May 20, 2022
The highest quality images of the Earth’s interior have just been captured
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
May 20, 2022
Where are the Leaders to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century?
Posted by Len Rosen in category: futurism
Progress on reducing carbon emissions has been slow making achieving interim 2030 targets elusive, let alone hitting net-zero by 2050.
May 19, 2022
Suppression weakens unwanted memories via a sustained reduction of neural reactivation
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Intentionally preventing the retrieval of an unwanted memory hinders future attempts to reactivate the memory’s neural representation and causes a reduction in the vividness with which it can be recalled.
May 19, 2022
Study finds that psychopaths remain just as bad, or worse, as they age
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Anyone waiting for a sociopath to grow up or calm down should give up; they will not change, a new study has revealed.
The research, published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, surveyed more than 1,200 partners, family members and friends of psychopaths—93% reported they were just as bad, or worse, as they got older.
Co-author Professor Martin Sellbom, of the University of Otago’s Department of Psychology, says the research focused on people with antisocial personality disorder/psychopathy who were aged over 50.
