This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.
Each time you use AI to generate an image, write an email, or ask a chatbot a question, it comes at a cost to the planet.
Earlier this year, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the Global SIBOS Conference held this year in Toronto.
This article discusses contrarian views on AI increasing value or reducing productivity like most new technologies have as productivity is done since the 1980s.
Anduril Industries says it wants to become the Lockheed Martin of the 21st century.
The fast autonomous drone, called Roadrunner, is designed by Luckey’s Anduril Industries to intercept and blow up enemy aircraft.
Prosperity7, the venture capital fund of Aramco Ventures, invested in Rain Neuromorphics in February 2022.
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Moving aggressively in the AI arms race, Washington has compelled Saudi Aramco to sell its shares in Rain Neuromorphics Inc, an AI chip startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, reported Bloomberg.
The network’s total capacity will surpass 500 Gbps by 2025.
While China is already marching ahead with its internet infrastructure, the country has announced the completion of its first high-orbit satellite communication network, which aims to provide fast and reliable internet service within its territory and to several countries along its Belt and Road initiative.
The network, which consists of three high-throughput satellites named ChinaSat 16, 19, and 26, is expected to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink, a low-orbit satellite system developed by the American aerospace company, according to a Beijing-based communications expert.
500 Gbps speeds by 2025
NASA’s maiden mission to explore Saturn’s moon, Titan, has progressed to the next phase of development.
If everything goes as planned, the launch of this car-sized nuclear-powered drone will take place in 2028.
The Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, will move to the final stages of design and development of the Dragonfly drone with NASA’s preliminary design approval.
UK MoD enhances combat training with ChatGPT in SimStriker robots, enabling dynamic soldier-target conversations for realistic scenarios.
SimStriker: A breakthrough in close combat training
SimStriker, developed by 4GD in 2020, has already been used at the SmartFacility in Colchester, UK, where it currently serves the British Army’s 16th Air Assault Brigade. The facility logged over 1,200 hours of training in 2022, engaging various users, including the Ministry of Defence police and civilian participants.
The world’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in Japan on Friday, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity’s future energy needs.
Fusion differs from fission, the technique currently used in nuclear power plants, by fusing two atomic nuclei instead of splitting one.
The goal of the JT-60SA reactor is to investigate the feasibility of fusion as a safe, large-scale and carbon-free source of net energy—with more energy generated than is put into producing it.
James Cook University researcher Matthew Connors has discovered two new praying mantis species with the help of citizen scientists. The finds have been published in Zootaxa.
One of these new mantises is not just a new species but an entirely new genus—the classification level above species—and was discovered thanks to citizen scientist Glenda Walter.
We have named the new species Inimia nat—I. nat for short—as it was discovered thanks to the citizen science platform iNaturalist—also iNat for short.
Additionally, GAI helps radiologists cross-reference comorbidities in a way that was not possible before. For instance, people with certain types of autoimmune arthritis have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes). These conditions might seem unrelated, but if a CT scan reveals calcifications in the coronary arteries, GAI can facilitate informing the radiologist and treating physician of this important biomarker. These types of added value are not just consumer conveniences. As potentiators of clinical research and effectuators of episodes of care, they can save the lives of patients.
Leaning into the whole.
It should be clear to most in the industry that AI is knocking at the door, and those who do not adopt new technology will be left behind. What seems less clear is how that design and implementation should move forward. Laying AI functions on top of already outdated systems or relying on separate solutions that do not play into the unified stack system–especially given the volume of data, delicate privacy issues and the need for constant updates–does not optimally contribute to advancement. Instead, we should embrace the vision as a whole and build for unification and GAI, rather than jury-rig a square peg in a round hole.