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Mar 11, 2022

Microsoft, OpenAI may have solved a fundamental AI bottleneck

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

µ-Parametrization could be the key to tuning hyperparameters for massive AI models.


New technique helps to fine-tune massive neural networks without having to start from scratch.

Mar 11, 2022

Army Special Operations Forces use Project Origin systems in latest Soldier experiment

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

DUGWAY, Utah — Army Green Berets from the 1st Special Forces Group conducted two weeks of hands-on experimentation with Project Origin Unmanned Systems at Dugway Proving Ground. Engineers from the U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center were on site to collect data on how these elite Soldiers utilized the systems and what technology and behaviors are desired.

Project Origin vehicles are the evolution of multiple Soldier Operational Experiments. This GVSC-led rapid prototyping effort allows the Army to conduct technology and autonomous behavior integration for follow-on assessments with Soldiers in order to better understand what Soldiers need from unmanned systems.

For the two-week experiment, Soldiers with the 1st Special Forces Group attended familiarization and new equipment training in order to develop Standard Operating Procedures for Robotic Combat Vehicles. The unit utilized these SOPs to conduct numerous mission-oriented exercises including multiple live-fire missions during the day and night.

Mar 11, 2022

Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

A simple algorithm that revolutionizes how neural networks approach language is now taking on image classification as well. It may not stop there.

Mar 11, 2022

Juan Carlos Izpisua: ‘Within two decades, we will be able to prevent aging’

Posted by in category: life extension

The leading Spanish scientist talks to EL PAÍS about his new role at the secretive multinational Altos Labs, where he hopes to use cellular rejuvenation to reverse illness and cell deterioration.

Mar 11, 2022

Researchers develop pressure-quench process to enhance superconductivity toward goal of wasting zero energy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials

In the simplest terms, superconductivity between two or more objects means zero wasted electricity. It means electricity is being transferred between these objects with no loss of energy.

Many naturally occurring elements and minerals like lead and mercury have superconducting properties. And there are modern applications that currently use materials with superconducting properties, including MRI machines, maglev trains, electric motors and generators.

Usually, superconductivity in materials happens in low-temperature environments or at high temperatures at very high pressures. The holy grail of superconductivity today is to find or create materials that can transfer energy between each other in a non-pressurized environment.

Mar 11, 2022

New in Science: By combining thousands of modern and ancient genomes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, science

researchers have constructed the largest human genealogy to date, providing insight into key events in human history together with their timings and geographical locations.

Learn more ➡ https://fcld.ly/m4hpr34

Mar 11, 2022

Stepping Into the Future

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The ‘Stepping Into the Future’ conference is coming up soon — April 23-24th to be exact. It’s online and it’s free (via zoom). It will be fun & exciting — I hope you can all make it. Many of the synopses of coming talks are already online (linked to from the agenda) — so check them out.


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We are in the midst of a technological avalanche – surprisingly to many, AI has made the impossible possible. In a rapidly changing world maintaining and expanding our capacity to innovate is essential.

Mar 11, 2022

Time Crystals Made of Light Could Soon Escape the Lab

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Implantable “drug factories” that kill advanced-stage ovarian and colorectal cancer in mice in six day could be ready for human clinical trials this fall.

Mar 11, 2022

Tiny ‘drug factories’ kill cancer in mice in days

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Nash and Veiseh with vials of bead-like “drug factories” they created to treat cancer. The beads are designed to continuously produce natural compounds that program the immune system to attack tumors. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice)

The therapy could be ready for human clinical trials later this year.

Mar 11, 2022

Tokamak Energy moves closer to commercial fusion: 100M degree plasma a world record for a spherical tokamak

Posted by in categories: government, nuclear energy

OXFORD, England 0, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Tokamak Energy has demonstrated a world-first with its privately-funded ST40 spherical tokamak, achieving a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, the threshold required for commercial fusion energy.

This is by far the highest temperature ever achieved in a spherical tokamak and by any privately funded tokamak. While several government laboratories have reported plasma temperatures above 100M degrees in conventional tokamaks, this milestone has been achieved in just five years, for a cost of less than £50m ($70m), in a much more compact fusion device. This achievement further substantiates spherical tokamaks as the optimal route to the delivery of clean, secure, low cost, scalable and globally deployable commercial fusion energy.