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Jul 21, 2023

AIs trained on AI-generated images produce glitches and blurs

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Using AI-generated images to train AI quickly creates a loop where the results get worse in either quality or visual diversity.

By Jeremy Hsu

Jul 21, 2023

The Only Thing Keeping South Africa From Chaos Is Its Private Sector

Posted by in categories: government, policy

Corruption, government incompetence and policy paralysis risk turning Africa’s most-industrialized nation into a failing state, leaving the ANC struggling to hang on to power.

Jul 21, 2023

Ford Tried To Be Tesla, And It Cost The Company Billions

Posted by in category: climatology

Ford cut the price of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup, and its stock price has taken a dive.

Jul 21, 2023

Terminator’ Director James Cameron On The Rise Of AI: I Warned You Guys In 1984 & You Didn’t Listen

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

James Cameron is weighing in on AI as computer programming continues to mature and become more sophisticated. The director of The Terminator made a call back to the film he also co-wrote and that Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in.

“I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn’t listen,” he told CTV News about AI.

Jul 21, 2023

A Cracked Piece of Metal Healed Itself in an Experiment That Stunned Scientists

Posted by in category: engineering

File this under ‘That’s not supposed to happen!’: Scientists observed a metal healing itself, something never seen before. If this process can be fully understood and controlled, we could be at the start of a whole new era of engineering.

A team from Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M University was testing the resilience of the metal, using a specialized transmission electron microscope technique to pull the ends of the metal 200 times every second. They then observed the self-healing at ultra-small scales in a 40-nanometer-thick piece of platinum suspended in a vacuum.

Cracks caused by the kind of strain described above are known as fatigue damage: repeated stress and motion that causes microscopic breaks, eventually causing machines or structures to break. Amazingly, after about 40 minutes of observation, the crack in the platinum started to fuse back together and mend itself before starting again in a different direction.

Jul 21, 2023

Hubble spies swarm of boulders around asteroid hit by DART spacecraft

Posted by in category: space

New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a swarm of 37 boulders around the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA’s DART mission intentionally hit.

Jul 21, 2023

The risks of AI are real but manageable

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Bill Gates explains the risks associated with AI and argues that they are manageable. Innovations often create new risks that need to be controlled.

Jul 21, 2023

Happy people live longer because they are healthy people

Posted by in category: life extension

Discussion: Much of the association between happiness and increased life expectancy could be explained by socio-demographic, lifestyle, health and functioning factors, and especially psychological health and functioning factors.

Keywords: Happiness; Longevity; Mortality; Positive affect; Well-being.

© 2023. The Author(s).

Jul 21, 2023

Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from accurately answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

Been Corporate-ized


The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion.

Jul 20, 2023

Unusual type of stellar object discovered beaming out radio waves

Posted by in category: cosmology

Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe.

Initially, Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O’Doherty spotted a spinning celestial space object in March 2018. The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour.

In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes, acting like a celestial lighthouse.