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NVIDIA’s Megatron Turing AI Model can now have conversations with itself to perpetually improve itself in the hopes of understanding how to best control and influence other people in debates. This sparked a lot of discussions in the AI Community because ever-improving Artificial Intelligences pose real dangers to humanity.
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00:00 The biggest Black Box.
01:54 Nvidia’s GPT-3 Competitor.
03:23 How these AI’s work.
04:50 The Ethical issues of Black Box AI’s.
08:19 Last Words.
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A new way to boost the growth of plants in rooftop farms.

Humans constantly breathe out large amounts of CO2 and when we are inside a building for a period of time, it creates high concentrations of carbon dioxide inside the building. This CO2 is removed through a building’s exhaust system.

Plants take in CO2 as a source of food and when they are exposed to lots of CO2, they will grow bigger than they would have otherwise.

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Researchers say they were inspired by living things from trees to shellfish.

They were inspired by living things, from trees to shellfish. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin set their collective advanced minds on creating a plastic that would mimic real life. It would be like many life forms that are soft and stretchy in some places and hard and rigid in others.

Their success, a first ever, using only light and a catalyst to change the properties such as hardness and elasticity in molecules of the same type. The resulting material is ten times stronger than natural rubber and could very well change flexibility of electronics and robotics.

Plastic stretch.

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Bill Gates founded Breakthrough Energy and has recently announced that its first Catalyst project funding will come in the form of a $50 million grant to LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Soperton, Georgia.

Breakthrough Energy Catalyst is a unique program that brings together businesses and nonprofits to fund key first-of-its-kind commercial-scale projects that speed up the deployment of essential technologies.

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Researchers created an artificial intelligence process that determines when and where wildfires will occur.

Wildfires have caused extreme fire damages across the globe, along with many deaths. It is significant to know when wildfires are spreading, and where, to prevent loss of life. Realizing this important information in advance is key. Forecasting wildfire danger can be a difficult task because of the complexity involving climate system, interactions with vegetation and socio-economic components.

Currently, available information for widespread fires only provides limited data and information.

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They also discovered the earliest proof of the moment when the planet’s magnetic poles switched places.

The Earth’s crust was pushing and tugging like present plate tectonics at least 3.25 billion years ago, according to new research published today (Oct .24) in PNAS, which examined fragments of the most ancient rocks on the planet.

The research also offers the oldest evidence of the moment when the planet’s magnetic north and south poles switched places.

The two findings provide hints as to how such geological changes may have produced a planet with a more favorable environment for the emergence of life.

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Just in time for Halloween’s spooky season, a quantum sensor now has double the spookiness by combining entanglement between atoms and delocalization of atoms.

Future quantum sensors will be able to provide more precise navigation, explore for needed natural resources, more precisely determine fundamental constants, look more precisely for dark matter, or maybe someday discover gravitational waves thanks to a team of researchers led by Fellow James K. Thompson from the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Thompson and his team have for the first time successfully combined two of the “spookiest” features of quantum mechanics: entanglement between atoms and delocalization of atoms. By doubling down on these “spooky” features, better quantum sensors can be made.

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“The project has certainly been a rewarding exercise in bringing art and science together.”

The magnetic signals from the ESA’s Swarm satellite project were turned into sound by researchers at the Technical University of Denmark. The outcome is quite thrilling for something that is supposed to protect us.

“The team used data from ESA’s Swarm satellites and other sources and used these magnetic signals to manipulate and control a sonic representation of the core field. The project has certainly been a rewarding exercise in bringing art and science together,” musician and project supporter Klaus Nielsen, from the Technical University of Denmark, explained the project in the ESA’s release. team used data from ESA’s Swarm satellites and other sources and used these magnetic signals to manipulate and control a sonic representation of the core field. The project has certainly been a rewarding exercise in bringing art and science together,” musician and project supporter Klaus Nielsen, from the Technical University of Denmark, explained the project in the ESA’s release.

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The ongoing saga between Elon Musk and Twitter is set to come to an end this week as he needs to finalize the purchase by October 28th, 2022.

The latest update on Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter is that this week could be a turning point. It may even see the deal finally sealed.

In case you don’t know, Elon Musk is currently attempting to finalize his purchase of the Twitter site for $54.20 a share. He made this offer in April and even came close to getting an eight percent discount though that didn’t materialize, according to Business Insider.

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