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Oct 8, 2024

AI challenge seeks questions to test human-level intelligence

Posted by in categories: law, mathematics, robotics/AI

Two of San Francisco’s leading players in artificial intelligence have challenged the public to come up with questions capable of testing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like Google Gemini and OpenAI’s o1. Scale AI, which specializes in preparing the vast tracts of data on which the LLMs are trained, teamed up with the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) to launch the initiative, Humanity’s Last Exam.

Featuring prizes of US$5,000 (£3,800) for those who come up with the top 50 questions selected for the test, Scale and CAIS say the goal is to test how close we are to achieving “expert-level AI systems” using the “largest, broadest coalition of experts in history.”

Why do this? The leading LLMs are already acing many established tests in intelligence, mathematics and law, but it’s hard to be sure how meaningful this is. In many cases, they may have pre-learned the answers due to the gargantuan quantities of data on which they are trained, including a significant percentage of everything on the internet.

Oct 8, 2024

Column: Google’s NotebookLM turns documents you upload into an AI-generated ‘deep dive’ podcast

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Should you trust it?

Oct 8, 2024

Tom Snyder: AI could be smarter than humans when it comes to health care

Posted by in categories: health, robotics/AI

Information about Tom Snyder: AI could be smarter than humans when it comes to health care.

Oct 8, 2024

Scientists Are Closer Than Ever To Reverse Aging. How Does It Work? | Life Extended

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, finance, food, life extension

Billionaires are backing top scientists racing to develop tech that could reverse aging. Cellular reprogramming promises to rejuvenate the body… but how does it work, and is it safe?

00:00 – Introduction.
00:55 – The Role Of Stem Cells.
02:33 – What Is Aging?
03:24 – What Is Cellular Reprogramming?
03:56 – How The Yamanaka Factors Can Rejuvenate Cells.
05:35 – Why Scientists Want To Partially Reprogram Cells.
06:28 – How Humans Could Become More Resilient To Age-Related Diseases.
07:00 – How Johnny Huard Uses Cellular Reprogramming.
08:10 – How Cellular Reprogramming Could Shape The Future.
08:38 – Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Is Investing Billions With Altos Labs.
09:02 – How Harvard Professor David Sinclair Used Cellular Reprogramming on Mice.
10:07 – ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Launched Retro. Biosciences.
10:57 – The Risks of Cellular Reprogramming, Including Cancer.
12:56 – How the Tech World Is Investing In Biotech.
13:50 – Credits.

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Oct 8, 2024

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 2 scientists for discoveries in machine learning

Posted by in categories: physics, robotics/AI

STOCKHOLM — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

“This year’s two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” the Nobel committee said in a press release.

Hopfield’s research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto.

Oct 8, 2024

California-based Google leases a 1.1M-square-foot building in North Texas

Posted by in category: computing

Gibbs said the two leases are among the top five largest new leases signed in Texas since the start of the year. The most recent in west Fort Worth is the third largest behind two others in Houston.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is a hub for data centers, accounting for about one-tenth of the market, second to Northern Virginia. According to analysis from commercial real estate firm Avison Young, the DFW market ranks No. 4 behind northern Virginia, Atlanta and Phoenix, and vacancy sits at 1.4%.

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Oct 8, 2024

Earth in solar flare “crosshairs” after auroras lit up U.S. skies

Posted by in category: futurism

Our planet might be hit by another massive solar flare Monday, following multiple northern lights sightings across the U.S. on Sunday night.

There is a 30 percent chance of an X-class solar flare hitting us on October 7, and a 75 percent chance of an M-class flare being seen, due to the Earth being in the “crosshairs” of six volatile sunspots on the sun’s surface.

This comes as 14 U.S. states caught a glimpse of the northern lights on Sunday night, thanks to a G1 to G2-strength geomagnetic storm.

Oct 8, 2024

Agility Robotics, Maker of Humanoid Bots, Shows Off Its ‘RoboFab’

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The Oregon company already has robots working in a Spanx warehouse and running trials at Amazon facilities.

Oct 8, 2024

Astronomers Detect Black Hole ‘Starving’ its Host Galaxy to Death

Posted by in category: cosmology

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new stars. The results are reported in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The international team, co-led by the University of Cambridge, used Webb to observe a galaxy roughly the size of the Milky Way in the early universe, about two billion years after the Big Bang. Like most large galaxies, it has a supermassive black hole at its center. However, this galaxy is essentially ‘dead’: it has mostly stopped forming new stars.

“Based on earlier observations, we knew this galaxy was in a quenched state: it’s not forming many stars given its size, and we expect there is a link between the black hole and the end of star formation,” said co-lead author Dr. Francesco D’Eugenio from Cambridge’s Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

Oct 8, 2024

DoD launches new biological defense supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Lab

Posted by in categories: biological, government, security, supercomputing

The US government has launched a new supercomputer in Livermore, California.

The Department of Defense (DoD) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) this month inaugurated a new supercomputing system dedicated to biological defense at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).


Specs not shared, but same architecture as upcoming El Capitan system.

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