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Ford launches German-engineered all-electric Explorer for Europe

Explorer will take road trips in its stride, with charging from 10–80 per cent in 25 minutes.

U.S.-based carmaker Ford has announced its new all-electric Explorer, the first of many EVs to come from the company as part of the company’s rebranding in Europe, according to a press release.

The vehicle seats five across two rows and offers ample storage space of around 470 liters in five-seat mode, making it perfect for exploring cities and beyond.

Ford.

The mid-sized crossover is designed to set families off on their next adventure, with an aerodynamic exterior that reflects the iconic American SUV and a bold “shield” design that takes the place of a traditional grille.

Elon Musk’s The Boring Company seeks to double the size of its Vegas Loop

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is doubling down on its Vegas bet, with a proposal that would expand its underground transport system to 65 miles of tunnels below the streets of Sin City.

The proposed network map, which was recently filed with the city of Las Vegas and not previously reported, depicts dozens of tunnels criss-crossing the city to reach more casinos, retail zones, the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus and, for the first time, even residential areas. The proposed transit system is comprised of 69 stations and 65 miles of tunnels, according to planning documents, plus an unknown number of Tesla vehicles.

If successful, a Loop station would be located within a few blocks of almost anywhere in central Las Vegas. Five stations would serve the University of Nevada; and Allegiant Stadium — home to the Raiders NFL team — would get extra links to the west of the city. Harry Reid International Airport would have several stations surrounding it, although none actually serving the passenger terminal.

GPT4 Can Replace Jobs

😗 I am actually pretty happy about this because full automation will simply life rather than needing as much education the AI can do most of the work much like the star trek computer. Full automation will allow for more freedom even from common tasks allowing the AI to most of the thinking and tasks.

A senior developer tested GPT4 for programming. GPT4 gave the Terraform script code for a single instance of the Fargate API. GPT4 knows that the code will not scale to 10,000 requests per second. It then describes how to create an auto-scaling group and make the modifications to scale the code with AWS and configure the application load balancer.

NOTE: his prompt was way more detailed than an ordinary person would produce. An ordinary person would not be able to verify the results either. You can make the case for 10x or 100x programmer productivity. A senior developer can become a programming lead or manager guiding the AI prompt requests from the equivalent of multiple programming teams.

The advantage will not be to let people who do not know a topic to play with powerful tools. The advantage is to increase the productivity and capacity of competent people to do more in areas that they understand. The AI tools will uplevel the productivity in areas where you know what can and should be done. You do not want someone who does not know how to drive behind the wheel of a Formula One race car.

LoRA Weights

LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Model🚀 Introducing ChatLLaMA: Your Personal AI Assistant Powered by LoRA! 🤖 🌟 We’re excited to announce that you can now create custom personal assistants that run directly on your GPUs! ChatLLaMA utilizes LoRA, trained on Anthropic’s HH dataset, to model seamless convos between an AI assistant & users. Plus, the RLHF version of LoRA is coming soon! 🔥 📚 Know any high-quality dialogue-style datasets? Share them with us, and we’ll train ChatLLaMA on them! 🌐 ChatLLaMA is currently available for 30B and 13B models, with the 7B version coming soon. 🤔 Have questions or need help setting up ChatLLaMA? Join our Discord group & ask! Let’s revolutionize AI-assisted conversations together! 🌟 Disclaimer: — trained for research, — no foundation model weights, — the post was ran through gpt4 to make it more coherent.

Why Cruise’s CEO says you’ll soon be riding in a self-driving car

“One of the greatest shifts that will occur in our lifetimes is going from driving to being driven.”

Kyle Vogt, CEO of GM’s driverless car maker Cruise (YC W14), aims to have a fleet of at least 1 million robo-taxis on U.S. roads by 2030 and in markets like Japan and Dubai. vehicles will overtake human-driven cars in ten years, the CEO of GM’s Cruise predicts.

Fairmatic raises $46M to bring AI to commercial auto insurance

With inflation sparking an increase in the cost of repairs, labor and claims, fees for insurance are similarly spiking across the board. Car insurance premiums rose 13.7% nationally over the past year, according to a study from Bankrate.com. Home insurance, meanwhile, climbed 12.1% year-on-year, Policygenius found.

But Jonathan Matus argues that it doesn’t have to be that way. He’s the founder of Fairmatic, a company that’s applying AI to — at least according to him — reduce risk in the car insurance industry.

Matus previously founded Zendrive, a platform that provides insights to enterprises for car insurance underwriting and claims as well as roadside assistance. While Zendrive is focused on insurance for individuals and families, Fairmatic has a more commercial bent — a customer base made up primarily of businesses.

NASA/Boeing Team to design a Radical New Airliner

I really love this.

Boeing and NASA have teamed up to radically redesign wings on commercial airliners.

The Transonic Truss Based Wing is about 50 percent longer and much thinner, improving fuel efficiency by 10 percent, and reducing the cost and emissions of future airliners.

Seems a fairly simple change with significant benefits, are there any downsides?

How Boeing and NASA may reinvent the wing to reduce the cost and emissions of air travel.

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