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Jul 9, 2024

UPDATE: Spectrum blames damage caused by Hurricane Beryl for massive internet outage across Texas

Posted by in categories: climatology, mobile phones

5:40 P.M. UPDATE: Spectrum has issued a statement saying a massive outage of its internet, phone and cable TV service across the state is due to damage caused by Hurricane Beryl. “The outage is due to a third-party infrastructure issue caused by the impact of Hurricane Beryl,” the company said at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. “We apologize for the inconvenience and are working with the third party to resolve this as quickly as possible.” The Bexar County…

Jul 9, 2024

We Cannot Cede Control of Weapons to Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

I watched United Nations delegates debate AI-based weapons that can fire without human initiation. Humans cannot be taken out of that decision-making.

By Kate Graham-Shaw

Imagine a weapon with no human deciding when to launch or pull its trigger. Imagine a weapon programmed by humans to recognize human targets, but then left to scan its internal data bank to decide whether a set of physical characteristics meant a person was friend or foe. When humans make mistakes, and fire weapons at the wrong targets, the outcry can be deafening, and the punishment can be severe. But how would we react, and who would we hold responsible if a computer programmed to control weapons made that fateful decision to fire, and it was wrong?

Jul 9, 2024

Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

The move has stumped the scientific community as there’s no obvious reason for it.

Jul 9, 2024

Flexible multitask computation in recurrent networks utilizes shared dynamical motifs

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The authors identify reusable ‘dynamical motifs’ in artificial neural networks. These motifs enable flexible recombination of previously learned capabilities, promoting modular, compositional computation and rapid transfer learning. This discovery sheds light on the fundamental building blocks of intelligent behavior.

Jul 9, 2024

WATCH: Robot learns to smile after researchers successfully attach skin to his face

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a method to integrate engineered skin tissue with humanoid robots, enhancing mobility, self-healing, sensors, and realism.

Jul 9, 2024

Google DeepMind’s JEST AI Learns 13x Faster & SenseTime’s New AI Beats GPT-4o

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Google’s DeepMind has unveiled a groundbreaking AI training method called JEST, which significantly reduces energy consumption and training time. Meanwhile, Chinese tech giants like SenseTime and Alibaba are showcasing their own powerful AI models, claiming to outperform even OpenAI’s GPT-4 in certain areas. The race for AI dominance is heating up, with advancements in efficient training and multimodal learning taking center stage.

#google #ai

Jul 9, 2024

Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren’t an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolved by accident – and are likely to shrink again in the near future.

By Colin Barras

Jul 9, 2024

Organic electrochemical neurons for neuromorphic perception

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, neuroscience

This Perspective explores the potential of organic electrochemical neurons, which are based on organic electrochemical transistors, in the development of adaptable and biointegrable neuromorphic event-based sensing applications.

Jul 9, 2024

Terahertz phonon engineering with van der Waals heterostructures

Posted by in category: engineering

In an application of terahertz phonon engineering, terahertz phonons were generated, detected and manipulated through precise integration of atomically thin layers in van der Waals heterostructures.

Jul 9, 2024

Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?

Posted by in category: quantum physics

The Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics from (Bub & Pitowsky, 2010) has been criticized in two ways related to the ontological picture it supplies. This paper explores whether Ontic Structural Realism can supplement the metaphysics of ITIQM in a way that would satisfy its critics. The many similarities between the two views are detailed. And it is argued that the ITIQM view ca. 2010 does seem to be compatible with OSR, but as the view evolved in Bub’s Bananaworld (2016), its fundamental metaphysical commitments shifted, making it a less clean fit with OSR.

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