Using AI-generated images to train AI quickly creates a loop where the results get worse in either quality or visual diversity.
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The Only Thing Keeping South Africa From Chaos Is Its Private Sector
Corruption, government incompetence and policy paralysis risk turning Africa’s most-industrialized nation into a failing state, leaving the ANC struggling to hang on to power.
Ford Tried To Be Tesla, And It Cost The Company Billions
Ford cut the price of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup, and its stock price has taken a dive.
Terminator’ Director James Cameron On The Rise Of AI: I Warned You Guys In 1984 & You Didn’t Listen
James Cameron is weighing in on AI as computer programming continues to mature and become more sophisticated. The director of The Terminator made a call back to the film he also co-wrote and that Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in.
“I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn’t listen,” he told CTV News about AI.
A Cracked Piece of Metal Healed Itself in an Experiment That Stunned Scientists
File this under ‘That’s not supposed to happen!’: Scientists observed a metal healing itself, something never seen before. If this process can be fully understood and controlled, we could be at the start of a whole new era of engineering.
A team from Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M University was testing the resilience of the metal, using a specialized transmission electron microscope technique to pull the ends of the metal 200 times every second. They then observed the self-healing at ultra-small scales in a 40-nanometer-thick piece of platinum suspended in a vacuum.
Cracks caused by the kind of strain described above are known as fatigue damage: repeated stress and motion that causes microscopic breaks, eventually causing machines or structures to break. Amazingly, after about 40 minutes of observation, the crack in the platinum started to fuse back together and mend itself before starting again in a different direction.
Hubble spies swarm of boulders around asteroid hit by DART spacecraft
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a swarm of 37 boulders around the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA’s DART mission intentionally hit.
The risks of AI are real but manageable
Bill Gates explains the risks associated with AI and argues that they are manageable. Innovations often create new risks that need to be controlled.
Happy people live longer because they are healthy people
Discussion: Much of the association between happiness and increased life expectancy could be explained by socio-demographic, lifestyle, health and functioning factors, and especially psychological health and functioning factors.
Keywords: Happiness; Longevity; Mortality; Positive affect; Well-being.
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Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from accurately answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds
Been Corporate-ized
The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion.
Unusual type of stellar object discovered beaming out radio waves
Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe.
Initially, Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O’Doherty spotted a spinning celestial space object in March 2018. The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour.
In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes, acting like a celestial lighthouse.