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Aug 14, 2023

ChatGPT’s huge running cost is threatening OpenAI’s future

Posted by in categories: finance, robotics/AI

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence studio that popularised AI with its chatbot ChatGPT, is reportedly facing a financial crisis that could lead to its bankruptcy.

According to a report by Analytics India Magazine, OpenAI spends a staggering $700,000 every day to run ChatGPT, one of its flagship AI services. The chatbot, which uses a powerful language model called GPT, can generate realistic and engaging conversations on various topics.

Aug 14, 2023

Scientists find a way to turn methane into energy, materials

Posted by in categories: energy, nanotechnology

The polluting emission is rarely recycled and does much damage to the planet.

Methane is an extremely harmful emission and one that is rarely recycled. Now, researchers from the University of Central Florida have found a way to transform it into energy and materials.

This is according to a press release by the institution published on Friday.

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Aug 14, 2023

How To Stop Generative AI From Destroying The Internet

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

The transformative power of technology cannot be denied. From the printing press to the internet, every new innovation brings about a world of possibilities. But with the good news come challenges, and the rise of generative artificial intelligence is no different.

Generative AI, with its profound capability to produce almost any piece of content, from articles to photos and videos, can fundamentally reshape our online experience. But as this technology grows more sophisticated, a crucial question emerges: Is generative AI undermining the very foundation of the internet?


Explore the astonishing capabilities of generative AI as it blurs the lines between reality and digital deception, and discover the urgent race to safeguard the truth.

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Aug 14, 2023

US firms including Netflix, Amazon offer AI jobs that pay up to $900K

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence has been blamed for thousands of layoffs — but a lucky few who are trained in the red-hot technology could find lucrative jobs paying as much as $900,000 a year. Streaming service Netflix touts an opening for a machine-learning platform product manager on its website that pays anywhere from $300,000 to $900,000 per year, including base salary and bonus.

The role requires tech junkies to “define the strategic vision for MLP [Machine Learning Platform]” and measure its success. Candidates can report to an office in Los Gatos, Calif., or work remotely in the West Coast timezone.

Aug 14, 2023

The New York Times says you can’t use its content to train AI models

Posted by in categories: policy, robotics/AI

The publication has updated its T&Cs to include rules that forbid its content from being used to train artificial intelligence systems.

The New York Times.

The updated terms now also specify that automated tools like website… More.

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Aug 14, 2023

Humane will share more about its mysterious “Ai Pin” the same day as October’s eclipse

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, wearables

Circle October 14th on your calendar for a solar eclipse and news about Humane’s AI Pin.

Humane, a startup founded by ex-Apple employees, plans to share more about its mysterious AI-powered wearable on the same day as a solar eclipse in October, co-founder Imran Chaudhri said in a video on the company’s Discord (via Inverse.

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Aug 14, 2023

Robot servers cannot replace human ones, restaurants say

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The service industry will not be replacing humans with machines any time soon.

When it comes to robots, there is always the fear that they may replace human workers. A new report by Richmond News.

The article highlights how more restaurants in the city are now using robot waiters to tackle labor shortage issues but are finding them ineffective, with two restaurants in particular having to fire their robot servers.

Aug 14, 2023

How to Survive a Nuclear War: Study Reveals the Safest Places to Wait Out the Conflict

Posted by in categories: existential risks, food, military

New research indicates that Australia and New Zealand are the two best places on Earth to survive a nuclear war. The recently published set of calculations don’t focus on blast-related deaths or even deaths caused by radiation fall-out, which most estimates say would number in the hundreds of millions, but instead look at how a nuclear winter caused by nuclear bomb explosions would affect food supplies, potentially leading to the starvation of billions.

Nuclear War Simulations Performed For Decades

Since the first atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, effectively spelling the end of World War II, war game theorists have looked at a myriad of simulations to determine the potential effects of a full-blown nuclear battle. Many simulations look at the potentially hundreds of millions that would likely die in the initial blasts, while others have tried to model the slower but equally as deadly body count from radiation sickness.

Aug 14, 2023

Short Bouts of Exercise Mobilize Immune Cells in the Blood

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

Exercise has many health benefits, from improving brain health to strengthening bones and muscles. Included in the vast array of advantages associated with exercise is cancer prevention and control.

The scientific literature suggests that physical activity mobilizes immune cells, activating them to fight cancer. This idea prompted an investigation into the interplay between exercise and immunity, the results of which were recently published in Scientific Reports.

The study investigated how 10-minute exercise sessions impact immune cells in patients recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The exercise regimen in the study consisted of pedaling a supine bicycle (laying on the back while cycling the legs) for ten minutes. This type of activity, considered “acute exercise,” is loosely defined as single bouts of physical activity. Acute exercise directly impacts circulation, and when the blood starts pumping, immune cells travel throughout the body, becoming more likely to encounter cancerous cells.

Aug 14, 2023

Scientists Achieve the Impossible by transmitting Sound Through Empty Space (Vacuum)

Posted by in categories: alien life, nanotechnology, physics

The classic film “Alien” was once promoted with the tagline “In space, no one can hear you scream.” Physicists Zhuoran Geng and Ilari Maasilta from the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have demonstrated that, on the contrary, in certain situations, sound can be transmitted strongly across a vacuum region.

In a recent article published in Communications Physics they show that in some cases, a sound wave can jump or “tunnel” fully across a vacuum gap between two solids if the materials in question are piezoelectric. In such materials, vibrations (sound waves) produce an electrical response as well, and since an electric field can exist in vacuum, it can transmit the sound waves.

The requirement is that the size of the gap is smaller than the wavelength of the sound wave. This effect works not only in audio range of frequencies (Hz–kHz), but also in ultrasound (MHz) and hypersound (GHz) frequencies, as long as the vacuum gap is made smaller as the frequencies increase.