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May 15, 2024

Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

Cheap data and the absence of coincidences make maths an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery — but only humans will be able to tell good conjectures from bad ones.

May 15, 2024

AI-powered tutor Khanmigo by Khan Academy: Your 24/7 homework helper

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

Did you hear the news? OpenAI’s newest model can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.

How does GPT-4o do with math tutoring? 🤔

Sal and his son test it out on a Khan Academy math problem.

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May 15, 2024

Jeff Bezos appears worried that Amazon is falling behind in the AI race

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Jeff Bezos emailed Amazon execs to ask why more AI firms aren’t using its cloud services, CNBC reported.

May 15, 2024

How wind energy is reshaping the future of global politics

Posted by in categories: energy, futurism

Wind energy is becoming an important strategic resource. Energy and supply chain shocks spurred countries around the world to boost their wind investments.

May 15, 2024

Chat GPT can now speak and sing in real time | DW News

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

ChatGPT 4O can now speak and sing in real time. It can even view the real world through your phone’s camera and describe what’s happening in real time.


The AI race has just shifted into high gear, with US artificial intelligence pioneers OpenAI rolling out its new interface that works with audio and vision as well as text. The new model, called GPT-4o, has gone beyond the familiar chat-bot features and is capable of real-time, near-natural voice conversations. The developer OpenAI will also make it available to free users.

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May 15, 2024

Dr. Arti Garg — Head of Technology Strategy & Evaluation, Office of CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Posted by in category: futurism

Dr. Arti Garg, Ph.D. is Head of Technology Strategy & Evaluation, Office of the CTO and HPE Sr. Distinguished Technologist, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (h…

May 15, 2024

Telomeres exposed: A new target for cancer diagnosis and treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Some cancers exploit the protective role of telomeres. New work measuring telomeres offers accurate cancer diagnosis and shows promise for personalised cancer treatment.

May 15, 2024

DNA flips the way a cell works

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In his new book, Dr Alan Herbert gives an honest account of his journey in the discovery of left-handed DNA.

May 15, 2024

Biodegradable ‘Living Plastic’ Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry’s environmental footprint. Researchers led by the University of California San Diego have developed a biodegradable form of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), a soft yet durable commercial plastic used in footwear, floor mats, cushions and memory foam. It is filled with bacterial spores that, when exposed to nutrients present in compost, germinate and break down the material at the end of its life cycle.

The work is detailed in a paper published on April 30 in Nature Communications.

The biodegradable TPU was made with bacterial spores from a strain of Bacillus subtilis that has the ability to break down plastic polymer materials.

May 15, 2024

Cooper Pairs Pair Up in a Kagome Metal

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

In its superconducting state, an exotic metal harbors charge carriers that appear to have 4 and 6 times the charge of a single electron, suggesting the formation of Cooper-pair “molecules.”

A kagome crystal features two-dimensional atomic layers whose structure resembles a traditional Japanese basket weave called kagome. For several decades, the kagome crystals that attracted the most attention were insulating magnets. The geometric frustration inherent in their kagome structure could, it was hoped, engender a much-sought exotic state known as a quantum spin liquid. By contrast, the metallic side of the kagome family was more of a theoretical curiosity. That status changed in 2019 with the discovery of exotic electronic behavior—Dirac fermions and flat bands—in the kagome metal FeSn [1]. A bigger surprise followed a year later when superconductivity was observed in the kagome metal cesium vanadium antimonide (CsV3Sb5, or CVS for short) [2].

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