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Dec 3
2023

OpenGPT is an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s custom ChatGPTs

OpenGPT is a promising toolkit for building custom chatbots like GPTs, but it is completely open-source and offers even more configuration options. Which means it is also more complicated.

With GPTs, OpenAI introduced the evolution of its plugin concept at Dev Days in November 2023. The AI company is giving end users different tools to create a chatbot tailored to their needs, without having to know how to code a chatbot. OpenAI even plans to give successful GPT creators a share of the revenue from ChatGPT Plus in the future.

When setting up GPTs, users can upload their files, link APIs, assign system prompts, and enable modules for web browsing, DALL-E, and code interpreters.

Dec 3
2023

Perspective: The Rise of “Wet” Artificial Intelligence

Combining AI with traditional wet lab work creates a virtuous circle from lab to data and back to the lab.

AI, with the right data, can span all of these scales and make sense of the data we collect on all of them. It’s poised to accelerate basic science, the business of biotechs, the behemoth pharmaceutical companies, and the broader bioeconomy.

Dec 2
2023

Model Correctly Predicts High-Temperature Superconducting Properties

A first-principles model accounts for the wide range of critical temperatures (T_c’s) for four materials and suggests a parameter that determines T_c in any high-temperature superconductor.

Since the first high-temperature superconducting materials, known as the cuprates, were discovered in 1986, researchers have struggled to explain their properties and to find materials with even higher superconducting transition temperatures (T_c’s). One puzzle has been the cuprates’ wide variation in T_c, ranging from below 10 K to above 130 K. Now Masatoshi Imada of Waseda University in Japan and his colleagues have used first-principles calculations to determine the order parameters—which measure the density of superconducting electrons—for four cuprate materials and have predicted the T_c’s based on those order parameters [1]. The researchers have also found what they believe is the fundamental parameter that determines T_c in a given material, which they hope will lead to the development of higher-temperature superconductors.

For each material, Imada and his colleagues applied the basic principles of quantum mechanics, focusing on the planes of copper and oxygen atoms that are known to host the superconducting electrons. They used a combination of numerical techniques, including one supplemented by machine learning, and did not require any adjustable parameters.

Dec 2
2023

IBM and NASA are building an AI foundation model for weather and climate

The goal is to improve the speed, accuracy, and accessibility of weather forecasting and other climate applications.

Dec 2
2023

Elon Musk Hints at Bringing Tesla Bot’s Bulletproof Cybertruck Test to Life in the Coming Year

Tesla has been pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the automotive industry. A recent demonstration of this is the bulletproof testing of the Cybertruck, conducted using Tesla Bots. This article delves into the details of these tests, the implications for Tesla’s technological advancements, and the potential future of these innovations. Tesla’s Bulletproof Cybertruck Recently, […].

Dec 2
2023

Huawei takes center stage in the China-US AI chip race

In an ironic twist, the Chinese government is turning to Huawei to spearhead the nation’s quest for semiconductor self-reliance.

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The sanctions made it so that only those with special permission could produce the chips designed by Huawei. As a result, Huawei faced difficulties in obtaining new chips for the development of more advanced smartphones.

Dec 2
2023

AI-system boosts microgrid efficiency for rapid power outage recovery

During power outages, microgrids leverage local renewable sources like rooftop solar panels and small wind turbines for efficient power restoration.

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Addressing this common challenge, a research team from the University of California — Santa Cruz led by assistant professor Yu Zhang is employing innovative methods to enhance power systems’ efficiency, dependability, and robustness. For this, they have devised an artificial intelligence (AI) centered strategy to intelligently manage microgrids intelligently, ensuring effective power restoration in the event of outages.

Dec 2
2023

The AI military race is led by American tech. Is there a challenger?

America calls and raises the AI bet with the B-21 Raider stealth bomber.

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This incident, whose timing peculiarly lined up with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, caused China to suddenly change tact and want to talk about nukes and AI.

Dec 2
2023

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic

The report found that bot attacks increased by 167 percent in the first half of the year, with a staggering 291 percent increase in intelligent bots.

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73 percent of all web and app traffic was malicious in Q3 2023.

Dec 2
2023

Thanks to AI, you can now draw your app instead of coding it

AI with image recognition opens up new possibilities for designers and developers to quickly turn an idea into a prototype. There are several approaches based on OpenAI technology.

The introduction of multimodal capabilities in GPT-4 has laid an important foundation for future software development. Thanks to GPT-4V, the AI model accepts both text and images as input. This allows it to generate working code from screenshots or rudimentary drawings.

Recently, several products have been developed around this idea. The collaborative whiteboard tool tldraw has set up a playground on the website makereal.tldraw.com, where mockups of website elements can be created in the browser. GPT-4V converts these into code using the OpenAI API. A separate API key is required.