In a letter to the company’s board of directors, OpenAI researchers are said to have warned of an AI discovery that could pose a threat to humanity.
This was reported by Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The letter is also linked to Altman’s firing, but is not the only reason, according to Reuters.
According to a source from The Verge, the board never received such a letter, which is why it played no role in Altman’s firing. Reuters says it has not seen the letter. The Information reports not on the letter itself, but on the “Q*” breakthrough described in it.
A single-celled organism with no brain or nervous system to speak of may still form memories and pass those memories on to future generations, according to new research.
The ubiquitous bacterium, Escherichia coli, is one of the most well-studied life forms on Earth, and yet scientists are still discovering unexpected ways that it survives and spreads.
Researchers at the University of Texas and the University of Delaware have now uncovered a potential memory system that allows E. coli to ‘remember’ past experiences for several hours and generations thereafter.
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier share the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments that “have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.” A more succinct description is that they have given us attosecond physics.
Attosecond physics is the science of the exceedingly, extremely, exceptionally [insert your own hyperbolic adverb here] fast. To put it into context, L’Huillier’s first call from the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith after she received the news took 3 minutes 48 seconds, or-1 attoseconds. Her first heartbeat during that call lasted a second, or a billion billion attoseconds. Almost defying a description, an attosecond is an unfathomably tiny amount of time. But it happens to be the natural timescale of the near-instantaneous dance of electrons.
Being able to gain a glimpse into the incredibly tiny scale of electrons in the incredibly fast attosecond regime opens the door to directly measuring, and perhaps even controlling, quantum processes. And this, in turn, offers huge potential to advance research, not only in quantum physics but also in biology, chemistry, medicine, electronics and many more areas important to science and society.
After multiple delays, billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is finally ready to begin commercial space flights — and you can snag a ticket for $450,000.
The background: In June 2021, Virgin Galactic became the first spaceline to secure permission from the FAA for commercial space flights, suggesting that it was pulling ahead of rivals Blue Origin and SpaceX in the space tourism arena.
While both of those companies planned to use rockets to send crewed capsules into space, Virgin Galactic’s idea was to put people in a spaceplane — a vehicle that can fly through Earth’s atmosphere like a plane, but also navigate space like a spacecraft.
Following the completion of The Spiral in New York, we take a look at seven of the latest skyscrapers designed by its architect, Danish studio BIG, along with a “landscaper”
From CapitaSpring in Singapore to O-Tower in China, a mix of recently completed projects and others still under construction make up the list of towers by the studio, which was founded in 2005 by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.
Common threads throughout the projects are the incorporation of greenery to bring occupants closer to nature and unusual forms that challenge traditional boxy skyscrapers that dominate many city skylines.
Less than 48 hours after Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase made a post highlighting some of the impact his departure might cause the ChatGPT creator.
Armstrong eulogized Sam Altman for taking OpenAI’s valuation to $80 billion, a massive worth he believe the company has just ‘torched by ousting the tech veteran.
Here Dr Seranova talks about stem cell use in helping with research into diseases of aging, particularly generating organiods of the brain by growing them from stem cells. Some links are affiliate links so we will earn a commission when they are used to purchase products.
Inflection AI just announced Inflection-2, a HUGE new 175 billion parameter language model.
Capabilities exceed Google and Meta’s top models and “is very close” to catching GPT-4.
The CEO also said the company’s next model will be 10x larger in six months.
Inflection AI, the innovative startup behind the conversational chatbot Pi, has recently unveiled a new AI model, Inflection-2, claiming superior performance over popular models developed by Google and Meta. According to a recent Forbes report, this new model is rapidly gaining attention for its potential to rival OpenAI’s GPT-4.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a cosmic ‘peanut’ and ‘fluff ball’ that happen to be two of the four oldest galaxies in the known universe.
