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The experiment revealed how long it takes light to cross a hydrogen molecule: just a couple hundred zeptoseconds.

“AI as it advances into Artificial General Intelligence(AGI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) may not end up becoming the last GPT (General Purpose Technology) for human civilization, but it is regarded by many technologist and futurist as possibly the last significant invention of man.

AI has the power to continuously keep improving.

It has the special ability to keep iterating over itself, to keep searching for answers over the vast network of information it controls.

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What’s driving GameStop’s astronomical surge is an unusual battle between Reddit nerds and Wall Street’s billion-dollar hedge funds. But what is a “hedge fund”, you may ask? We explain it all (very simply) here.

A U.S. government intelligence agency develops cutting-edge tech to predict future events.

In many ways, our brain and our digestive tract are deeply connected. Feeling nervous may lead to physical pain in the stomach, while hunger signals from the gut make us feel irritable. Recent studies have even suggested that the bacteria living in our gut can influence some neurological diseases.

A breakthrough in advanced quantum technology frequently compared to fictional elements of popular science fiction show ‘Star Trek’ could revolutionize everyday life around globe #quantumtechnology

Some four years after it was originally due to be completed, and over a decade after first being commissioned, Vincent Callebaut’s twisting Tao Zhu Yin Yuan (aka Agora Garden Tower) in Taipei, Taiwan, is finally nearing completion – and it’s looking like the wait has been worth it. The high-rise residential project has an ambitious DNA-inspired form incorporating thousands of plants on its facade and sustainability features including solar power, rainwater collection, and more.

Rising to a height of 93.2 m (305 ft), Tao Zhu Yin Yuan consists of 21 floors (plus four basement levels), and is defined by an unusual twisting design inspired by the DNA double helix. Twenty of the floors twist 4.5 degrees per floor as the building rises, for a total of 90 degrees from bottom to top.

Though it’s not looking quite as green as was suggested in early renders, this is understandable as the 23000 trees, shrubs and plants that are planted throughout the ground floor garden, balconies and terraces, still have some time to grow. SWA is leading landscaping duties and Vincent Callebaut Architectures (VCA) reckons that all those plants will remove significant amounts of CO₂ from the local atmosphere each year.

Beyond AI-powered weapons, the panel’s lengthy report recommended use of AI by intelligence agencies to streamline data gathering and review; $32 billion in annual federal funding for AI research; and new bodies including a digital corps modeled after the army’s Medical Corps and a technology competitiveness council chaired by the U.S. vice president.

The United States should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel said in a draft report for Congress.