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Mar 9, 2024

Korean researchers power-shame Nvidia with new neural AI chip — claim 625 times less power draw, 41 times smaller

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

A team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) detailed their ‘Complementary-Transformer’ AI chip during the recent 2024 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The new C-Transformer chip is claimed to be the world’s first ultra-low power AI accelerator chip capable of large language model (LLM) processing.

In a press release, the researchers power-shame Nvidia, claiming that the C-Transformer uses 625 times less power and is 41x smaller than the green team’s A100 Tensor Core GPU. It also reveals that the Samsung fabbed chip’s achievements largely stem from refined neuromorphic computing technology.

Though we are told that the KAIST C-Transformer chip can do the same LLM processing tasks as one of Nvidia’s beefy A100 GPUs, none of the press nor conference materials we have provided any direct comparative performance metrics. That’s a significant statistic, conspicuous by its absence, and the cynical would probably surmise that a performance comparison doesn’t do the C-Transformer any favors.

Mar 9, 2024

Russian state-backed hackers breached Microsoft’s core software systems, company says

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

A Russian state-backed group that Microsoft said hacked into its corporate email accounts was able to gain access to its core software systems, the company announced on Friday.

Microsoft said its security team detected the attack in January and identified the group responsible as Midnight Blizzard, “the Russian state-sponsored actor also known as Nobelium.”

“In recent weeks, we have seen evidence that Midnight Blizzard is using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorized access,” Microsoft said in a blog post update on Friday. “This has included access to some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems.”

Mar 9, 2024

OpenAI’s Video-Generating AI Is “Doomed to Failure,” Says Meta’s Top AI Scientist

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Yann LeCun pulled no punches when he described OpenAI’s approach to creating a “world simulator” through its Sora AI as a bad idea.

Mar 9, 2024

AI Resurrection: Pros And Cons of Bringing Back The Dead

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In this thought-provoking video, we delve into the fascinating concept of AI resurrection and how it is shaping our world in the digital age. \.

Mar 9, 2024

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Posted by in category: neuroscience

The prospects of whole brain emulation.


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Mar 9, 2024

How water guides the assembly of collagen, the building block of all humans

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials

Water determines life: humans are three-quarters water. An international research team led by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has now discovered how water also determines the structure of the material that holds us together: collagen.

In a paper published in PNAS, the researchers elucidate the role of water in the molecular self-assembly of . They show that by replacing water with its ‘twin molecule’ heavy water (D2O), one can ‘tune’ the interaction between collagen molecules, and thus influence the process of collagen self-assembly. The findings will help to better understand the tissue failures resulting from heritable collagen-related diseases, such as brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta).

As lead author Dr. Giulia Giubertoni of the UvA’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) puts it, “In studying these and other collagen diseases, many researchers, including myself, … have always missed an important part of the puzzle, and the possibility that tissue failure might be partly due to water-collagen interaction was not taken very seriously. We now show that perturbing the water layer around the , even very slightly, has dramatic effects on collagen assembly.”

Mar 9, 2024

New DNA-infused computer chip can perform calculations and make future AI models far more efficient

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The new processor stores data in modified DNA molecules and uses microfluidic channels to perform basic computations.

Mar 9, 2024

Report: US broke clean energy growth record by 12.5% in 2023

Posted by in category: energy

The ACP power annual market reports for 2023 shows a drastic increase in clean energy power prodution in the United States of America.

Mar 9, 2024

SpaceX to perform first-ever re-light of Starship Raptor engine next week

Posted by in category: space travel

Starship will attempt a controlled reentry as well as the first re-light of a Raptor engine. It could fly again next week.

Mar 9, 2024

2.6-ton International Space Station junk plunging to Earth on Saturday

Posted by in category: space

This 2.6-metric-ton cargo pallet is now slated to naturally reach the Earth’s atmosphere between March 8 and 9, 2024.

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