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Apr 3, 2023

A brief history of artificial intelligence

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Explore the history of artificial intelligence, from Alan Turing’s Turing Test to the latest breakthroughs in machine learning and natural language processing.

Apr 3, 2023

Protons seem to be a different size depending on how you look at them

Posted by in category: particle physics

An experiment that probed particles called gluons, which contain most of the mass of a proton, has revealed that a proton’s radius alters depending on whether you look at the particle’s charge or mass.

By Alex Wilkins

Apr 3, 2023

Eliezer Yudkowsky: GPT-4 should not be open sourced | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI.

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Apr 3, 2023

This Massive Meatball Was Made With Woolly Mammoth DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

♡,♡!!!


In a sense, the extinct woolly mammoth has returned —as a meatball. On Tuesday, an Australian cultured meat start-up revealed a sphere of lab-grown meat, produced with a DNA sequence from the elephant-like mammal.

But you won’t find this product in grocery stores; the creation is not meant to be eaten, at least for now. Instead, the “mammoth meatball” aims to highlight the environmental impacts of standard agricultural practices and present cultured meat as a viable option for food production down the line.

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Apr 3, 2023

Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, geopolitics, robotics/AI

Won’t that just make enemies of AI?


One of the world’s loudest artificial intelligence critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on AI but to militantly put an end to it — before it ends us instead.

In an op-ed for Time magazine, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has for more than two decades been warning about the dystopian future that will come when we achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), is once again ringing the alarm bells.

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Apr 2, 2023

Why preserving your lemons in salt will make them even tastier

Posted by in category: futurism

The flavour of fresh lemon is delicious, but this citrus fruit becomes even more wonderful when it is preserved in salt, says Sam Wong

By Sam Wong

Apr 2, 2023

New AI upgrade could be indistinguishable from humans: expert

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI could release GPT-5 at the end of this year and achieve artificial general intelligence, which would make generative AI indistinguishable from a human, according to a report.

Apr 2, 2023

Archaeologists Found a Strange 3,400-Year-Old Ancient City After Tigris River Water Receding

Posted by in category: futurism

The Mittani Empire’s urban center is revealed by a drought.

A 3400-year-old city from the Mittani Empire that was formerly situated on the Tigris River has been discovered by a group of German and Kurdish archaeologists.

Early this year, as a result of the severe drought in Iraq, a town erupted from the waters of the Mosul reservoir.

Apr 2, 2023

Scientists Baffled by New “Size of Life” Discovery About Our Planet’s Biomass

Posted by in categories: biological, materials

Life comes in all shapes in sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others, new research from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has found.

In the first study of its kind published today (March 29) in PLOS ONE, Dr. Eden Tekwa, who conducted the study as a postdoctoral fellow at UBC’s department of zoology, surveyed the body sizes of all Earth’s living organisms, and uncovered an unexpected pattern. Contrary to what current theories can explain, our planet’s biomass—the material that makes up all living organisms—is concentrated in organisms at either end of the size spectrum.

“The smallest and largest organisms significantly outweigh all other organisms,” said Dr. Tekwa, lead author of “The size of life,” and now a research associate with McGill University’s department of biology. “This seems like a new and emerging pattern that needs to be explained, and we don’t have theories for how to explain it right now. Current theories predict that biomass would be spread evenly across all body sizes.”

Apr 2, 2023

Black holes and the multiverse could account for all dark matter, astronomers claim

Posted by in category: cosmology

Year 2021 o.o!


A study suggests that tiny black holes from the early Universe could contain ‘baby universes’, and could explain dark matter.