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May 21, 2024
Microsoft Surface Copilot + PC Event: Everything Revealed in 13 Minutes
Posted by Chris Smedley in category: robotics/AI
At Microsoft’s AI press event, the company unveiled its latest Surface PCs with new AI Copilot features built-in. Check out all the highlights in our recap from Redmond, WA.
Everything Microsoft Just Announced: Copilot Plus PCs, Surface Pro and Laptop Running on Qualcomm https://bit.ly/3ynj8BQ
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May 21, 2024
Scientists Are Working Towards a Unified Theory of Consciousness
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
How do you define consciousness?
Some theories are even duking it out in a mano-a-mano test by imaging the brains of volunteers as they perform different tasks in clinical test centers across the globe.
But unlocking the neural basis of consciousness doesn’t have to be confrontational. Rather, theories can be integrated, wrote the authors, who were part of the Human Brain Project —a massive European endeavor to map and understand the brain—and specialize in decoding brain signals related to consciousness.
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May 21, 2024
Quantum tunnel: Scientists study particles that move faster than light
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
Quantum tunneling can explain radioactive decay and also serve applications like microscopy and memory storage.
May 21, 2024
Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: policy, robotics/AI
From UC berkeley, stanford, carnegie mellon, & google deepmind.
Octo.
An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy.
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May 21, 2024
JWST Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Yet
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: cosmology
From 13 billion light-years across the gulf of space and time, we’ve just caught a glimpse of the most distant black hole merger discovered yet.
Using JWST, an international team of astronomers has discovered two supermassive black holes, and their attendant galaxies, coming together in a colossal cosmic collision, just 740 million years after the Big Bang.
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May 21, 2024
Towards Modular LLMs by Building and Reusing a Library of LoRAs
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
From Microsoft.
Towards Modular LLMs by Building and Reusing a Library of LoRAs https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.
The growing number of parameter-efficient adaptations of a base large language model (LLM) calls for studying whether we can reuse such trained adapters to improve performance for…
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May 21, 2024
AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help?
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: robotics/AI
The International Energy Agency predicts that artificial intelligence will consume 10 times as much energy in 2026 as it did in 2023.
Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.
May 21, 2024
A model outlining the microscopic origin of black hole entropy
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: cosmology, physics
Black holes are intriguing astronomical objects that have a gravitational pull so strong that it prevents any object and even light from escaping. While black holes have been the topic of numerous astrophysical studies, their origins and underlying physics remain largely a mystery.
May 21, 2024
Scientists discover single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temperature
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
Scientists have discovered that a “single atomic defect” in a layered 2D material can hold onto quantum information for microseconds at room temperature, underscoring the potential of 2D materials in advancing quantum technologies.
The defect, found by researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge using a thin material called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), demonstrates spin coherence—a property where an electronic spin can retain quantum information —under ambient conditions. They also found that these spins can be controlled with light.
Up until now, only a few solid-state materials have been able to do this, marking a significant step forward in quantum technologies.
