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It is powerful enough to maneuver over obstacles.

The University of Illinois researchers’ newly developed insect-sized jumping robots will do tasks in small and tight places. The creation of jumping robots is also a significant advance in mechanical, agricultural, and search-and-rescue environments, according to the university.

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According to Chinese media sources, the world’s first urban hydrogen powered train has just rolled off the production line in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

According to Chinese media, the world’s first urban train powered by hydrogen has been produced via a joint venture between the CRRC Changchun Railway Company and Chengdu Rail Transit. While other hydrogen-powered trains exist, this is the first specifically developed for an urban environment.

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Sometimes, ChatGPT made “surprising” mistakes in school-level math.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s AI chatbot ChatGPT has been making headlines ever since it was released to the public on November 30. It can break down complex scientific concepts, compose poems, write stories, code, and create malware…the list is endless. OpenAI has also released a paid version of the chatbot. Known as ‘ChatGPT Professional’, it is available at $42 per month.

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How soon will that day arrive is the real question.

Meta’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, has said that the company believes that the metaverse will become as essential as today’s smartphone, Business Insider.

Meta is the new avatar of Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook that is looking to build the next generation of the internet. In October 2021, Zuckerberg announced, with much fanfare, the company’s vision to build a new digital world where people will log in for work, communication, and entertainment.

“The crazy part? This will be a money printing machine for OpenAI,” says an expert.

The artificial intelligence research laboratory, OpenAI, has reportedly begun rolling out a premium version of its popular AI chatbot, “ChatGPT Professional.”

“That was quick! OpenAI has reportedly started rolling out a premium version of its viral ChatGPT,” he wrote.

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Changes in the rotation might occur on a decadal scale and could aid our understanding of how processes deep in the Earth affect its surface.

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Researchers Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song analyzed the difference in the waveform and travel time of seismic waves from near-identical earthquakes that have passed through the Earth’s inner core along similar paths since the 1960s. They found that since around 2009, paths that previously showed significant temporal variation have exhibited little change, suggesting that the inner core rotation has paused. They also identified that this might be associated with a reversal of the inner core rotation as part of a seven-decade oscillation with a previous turning point occurring in the early 1970s. The authors indicate that this variation correlates with changes in geophysical observations at the Earth’s surface, such as the magnetic field and the length of day.

Destroying an Earth-killing asteroid is not always possible, here’s what we can do instead.

Do you know what size asteroid would be enough to end all life on Earth? According to the experts at NASA, a space rock only 96 km wide can do the job.

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ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. At its core, it uses the self-attention methods pioneered and patented by Google. Will Google try to seek licensing fees or sue OpenAI in court?

If you’re a computer programmer or software engineer, then you may have been alarmed by the capabilities demonstrated by the red-hot software application of the moment.

ChatGPT was unveiled in public beta form slightly before Christmas. It is a chatbot powered by the GPT-3.5 large language model (LLM) designed to use generative AI and natural language processing (NLP) to produce text that is almost indistinguishable from that written by humans. Due to its impressive abilities, it quickly went viral and has so far amassed millions of users.

Tell it to write a poem about trees in the style of Shakespeare, or an article about the applications of AI in industry, and that’s what you’ll get.

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