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Aria browser AI

So Everyone is offering free AI because they have to. From X to more it is a spreading trend. Here’s one:

Aria helps with everything you do in Opera Browser: from shopping research to learning and creativity. Generate text, images and get answers with real-time access to the web on mobile and desktop.


Chat and create with Aria, Opera’s free AI, across devices. Aria answers questions and generates content with up-to-date information from the web.

JoshEngels/SAE-Dark-Matter: Code for our paper “Decomposing The Dark Matter of Sparse Autoencoders”

Decomposing the dark matter of sparse autoencoders.

Joshua Engels, Logan Riggs, Max Tegmark MIT 2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.

On mapping concepts in artificial neural networks with sparse autoencoders: we find that map errors exhibit…


Code for our paper ‘Decomposing The Dark Matter of Sparse Autoencoders’ — JoshEngels/SAE-Dark-Matter.

Kepler Debuts Forerunner K2 Humanoid Robot, Accelerating Commercial Deployment

ROBOT ACHIEVEMENT DAY! 🤖😁 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kepler-debuts-forerunner-k2-h…00317.html


SHANGHAI, Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. (“Kepler Humanoid Robot”) has recently launched its full-sized, general-purpose humanoid robot, the Forerunner K2, at GITEX GLOBAL 2024, which began on October 14.

Kepler Humanoid Robot is dedicated to transforming productivity through cutting-edge technology and delivering industry-leading, high-IQ blue-collar humanoid robots. Hu Debo, CEO of Kepler Humanoid Robot, said, “The Forerunner K2 represents the Gen 5.0 robot model, showcasing a seamless integration of the humanoid robot’s cerebral, cerebellar, and high-load body functions. At Kepler, we understand that innovation is driven by application. That’s why we prioritize deep integration of customer needs, solutions, and product development. From the outset, we have forged close collaborations with key customers, jointly formulating commercialization strategies and working alongside industry stakeholders to accelerate the deployment of humanoid robots.

Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs

When I was a kid we had the anarchist cookbook.


But an artist and hacker found a way to trick ChatGPT to ignore its own guidelines and ethical responsibilities to produce instructions for making powerful explosives.

The hacker, who goes by Amadon, called his findings a “social engineering hack to completely break all the guardrails around ChatGPT’s output.” An explosives expert who reviewed the chatbot’s output told TechCrunch that the resulting instructions could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to be released.

Amazon is powering up its electric delivery vans with the power of AI

Amazon is using a new, proprietary AI solution called Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR) to reduce the time and effort it takes for delivery drivers to locate packages in their vans. Is it a game-changer, or more AI VAPR-ware?

Somewhat lost in the hype surrounding the Tesla “We, Robot” event on 10/10 was an AI press release from Amazon that promises to improve the lives of the people who use it today, rather than two years from now.

VAPR makes Amazon delivery drivers’ lives easier by automatically identifying the packages to be delivered at a given stop. The system then project a green “O” on all packages that will be delivered at that stop, and a red “X” on all other packages. When the driver picks up all the “correct” packages, VAPR delivers an audible cue to help ensure no packages get left behind.

AI-Generated Misinformation is Everywhere. ID’ing It May Be Harder Than You Think

AI and politics 😳 Artificial though it may be, the concept of “intelligence” doesn’t seem to jibe with a computer-generated image of uniformed cats toting assault rifles.

Yet that visual slur, which supports a debunked story about immigrants in Ohio eating pets, has become a signature image from…


UMD experts explain the emotional pulls and cognitive pitfalls—and how to avoid them.

The Data Dilemma: How Quantum Memory Could Ease the Energy Demands of Computing

In a world powered by artificial intelligence applications, data is king, but it’s also the crown’s biggest burden.


As described in the article, quantum memory stores data in ways that classical memory systems cannot match. In quantum systems, information is stored in quantum states, using the principles of superposition and entanglement to represent data more efficiently. This ability allows quantum systems to process and store vastly more information, potentially impacting data-heavy industries like AI.

In a 2021 study from the California Institute of Technology, researchers showed that quantum memory could dramatically reduce the number of steps needed to model complex systems. Their method proved that quantum algorithms using memory could require exponentially fewer steps, cutting down on both time and energy. However, this early work required vast amounts of quantum memory—an obstacle that could have limited its practical application.

Now, two independent teams have derived additional insights, demonstrating how these exponential advantages can be achieved with much less quantum memory. Sitan Chen from Harvard University, along with his team, found that just two quantum copies of a system were enough to provide the same computational efficiency previously thought to require many more.

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