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Jun 16, 2023

How Nvidia Became ChatGPT’s Brain and Joined the $1 Trillion Club

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

CEO Jensen Huang’s big bet on AI went from hand-delivering processors to Elon Musk and Sam Altman in 2016 to joining today’s alpha pack of Silicon Valley. He is worth close to $40 billion.


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Jun 16, 2023

Wearable textile captures energy from body movement to power devices

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, mobile phones, wearables

Nanoscientists have developed a wearable textile that can convert body movement into useable electricity and even store that energy. The fabric potentially has a wide range of applications from medical monitoring to assisting athletes and their coaches in tracking their performance, as well as smart displays on clothing.

The research team responsible for the describe how it works in a paper published in Nano Research Energy.

From smart watches to cordless headphones, people already have access to a wide range of wearable electronic devices. A range of health, sport and activity monitors are now integrated into smartphones.

Jun 16, 2023

Flow Proof Helps Mathematicians Find Stability in Chaos

Posted by in category: mathematics

A series of new papers describes how to fully characterize key dynamical systems with relatively little data.

Jun 16, 2023

Exploring gravity’s effect on quantum spins

Posted by in category: quantum physics

A joint research group led by Prof. Sheng Dong and Prof. Lu Zhengtian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), investigated the coupling effect between neutron spin and gravitational force via employing a high-precision xenon isotope magnetometer. This work was published in Physical Review Letters.

This research aims to uncover the coupling strength between neutron spin and gravity by measuring the weight difference between the neutron’s spin-up and spin-down states. The experimental results revealed that the weight difference between these two states was less than two sextillionths (2×10-21), setting a new upper limit on the coupling strength of this effect.

An article titled “Testing Gravity’s Effect on Quantum Spins,” reported in Physics, highlights this precise measurement research as a novel exploration of the intersection of quantum theory and gravity.

Jun 16, 2023

Elon Musk says Tesla’s market cap is directly tied to whether it solves autonomous driving

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

Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks the automaker’s market capitalization is directly tied to whether the automaker is able to solve autonomous driving.

Jun 16, 2023

Google sceptical of AI: Google doesn’t trust its own AI chatbots, asks employees not to use Bard

Posted by in categories: policy, robotics/AI, security

It seems that Google doesn’t trust any AI chatbot, including its own Bard AI bot. In an update to its security measures, Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company has asked its employees to keep sensitive data away from public AI chatbots, including their own Bard AI.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Alphabet Inc, the parent organisation of Google, is advising its employees to be cautious when using chatbots, including its own program called Bard, even as it continues to promote the software globally.

The company has updated a longstanding policy to protect confidential information, instructing employees not to input sensitive materials into AI chatbots. These chatbots, such as Bard… More.

Jun 16, 2023

Artificial intelligence is not yet as smart as a dog, Meta A.I. chief says

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Current artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT do not have human-level intelligence and are not even as smart as a dog, Meta’s AI chief Yann LeCunn said. LeCun talked about the limitations of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, and said they are not very intelligent because they are solely trained on language.

Meta’s LeCun said that, in the future, there will be machines that are more intelligent than humans, which should not be seen as a threat.

Current artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT do not have human-level intelligence and are barely smarter than a dog, Meta’s AI chief said, as the debate over the dangers of the fast-growing technology rages on.

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Jun 16, 2023

Wargraphs, a gaming startup with only one employee and no outside funding, sells for $54M

Posted by in category: entertainment

While the U.K. and U.S. try to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision over concerns it will kill competition in games distribution, competition appears to be alive and well in another (smaller) area of gaming: modding and analytics.

Wargraphs, a one-man-band startup behind a popular companion app for League of Legends called Porofessor, which helps players track and improve their playing stats, is getting acquired for up to €50 million ($54 million), half up front and half based on meeting certain earnings and growth targets.

MOBA Networks, a company founded out of Sweden that buys, grows and runs online gaming communities (MOBA is short for “multiplayer online battle arena”), is buying the startup and its existing products. The plan is to expand them to more markets, in particular across Asia, and to build analytics for more titles.

Jun 16, 2023

Intel to start shipping a quantum processor

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

The 12-qubit device will go out to a few academic research labs.

Intel does a lot of things, but it’s mostly noted for making and shipping a lot of processors, many of which have been named after bodies of water. So, saying that the company is set to start sending out a processor called Tunnel Falls would seem unsurprising if it weren’t for some key details. Among them: The processor’s functional units are qubits, and you shouldn’t expect to be able to pick one up on New Egg. Ever.

Tunnel Falls appears to be named after a waterfall near Intel’s Oregon facility, where the company’s quantum research team does much of its work. It’s a 12-qubit chip, which places it well behind the qubit count of many of Intel’s competitors—all of which are making processors available via cloud services. But Jim Clarke, who heads Intel’s quantum efforts, said these differences were due to the company’s distinct approach to developing quantum computers.

Jun 16, 2023

Dubai 10x Initiative UAE

Posted by in category: government

Dubai 10X creates disruptive, exponential change in government entities. Dubai 10X is about shifting mindsets and behaviors to aim big, learn from failure and adopt risk-taking.