blog.google DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
Dolphin researchers are using Gemma and Google Pixel phones to try to decipher how dolphins talk to one another.
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
www.theguardian.com UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
Tech jobs, robots are Lutnick's vision for America's "manufacturing renaissance"
Just a concept at the moment, but I can see their being demand for this thing
A nanoparticle-based wireless deep brain stimulation system that reverses Parkinson’s disease
To clarify, according to the paper, while intentionally assuming a human persona, it managed to fool most psychology undergraduates, not just random people.
Tiny wattage, but still useful, especially if you can group these into larger battery packs
Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production
today.usc.edu ‘Solar canals’: Bright solution for California water, energy needs?
USC-led initiative could transform canals into source of clean energy.
99% Effective: First Hormone-Free Male Birth Control Pill Enters Human Trials
news.sky.com EU citizens told to stock up on supplies in case of a crisis
People are being urged to have a few days' worth of supplies of life's essentials amid the rising danger of an emergency or disaster in an increasingly volatile world.
phys.org A breakthrough moment: Researchers discover new class of antibiotics
The last time a new class of antibiotics reached the market was nearly three decades ago—but that could soon change, thanks to a discovery by researchers at McMaster University.
www.upi.com Sugary drinks linked to greater oral cancer risk, study indicates - UPI.com
A study released Thursday found that women who consumed at least one sugar-sweetened beverage daily had a nearly five times greater chance of developing oral cancer than those who avoided sugary soft drinks.
techcrunch.com 1X will test humanoid robots in 'a few hundred' homes in 2025 | TechCrunch
Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to start testing its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in 'a few hundred to a few thousand' homes this year.
www.foxnews.com Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country
An Alpha school junior and the institution's co-founder Mackenzie Price spoke with "Fox & Friends" about the ways artificial intelligence can help students.
newatlas.com Nearly 100% of cancer identified by new AI, easily outperforming doctors
In what's expected to soon be commonplace, artificial intelligence is being harnessed to pick up signs of cancer more accurately than the trained human eye. This latest AI model has a near 100% success rate and serves as a clear sign of things to come.
www.engadget.com Joint studies from OpenAI and MIT found links between loneliness and ChatGPT use
Studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found connections between the amount a user talks to ChatGPT and how lonely they feel.
TI introduces the world's smallest microcontroller, enabling innovation in the tiniest of applications
www.bbc.co.uk Dark Energy experiment shakes Einstein's theory of Universe
New research could force a fundamental rethink of the nature of space and time.
www.apolloresearch.ai Claude Sonnet 3.7 (often) knows when it’s in alignment evaluations — Apollo Research
We evaluate whether Claude Sonnet 3.7 and other frontier models know that they are being evaluated.
One advantage of having no infrastructure is you can leapfrog old technologies. We’ve seen this with countries that had no copper telephone wires everywhere, they moved straight to cellular technology.
The word of the day is "technofeudalism"
I got that reference!
We already have military planes that go pretty close to that, and missiles go at Mach 20 so we have the technology
Reminds me of R2D2
Reminds me of the grains of rice on a chessboard doubling each square. The end result suprised the king and the time horizons of these things is going to suprise humanity.
These agents use automated feedback to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses, resulting in a self-improving cycle of increasingly high-quality and novel outputs.
So they are going to point this thing at the AI codebase right? Right?
It’s a race to see what kills us first, Climate Change or AI.
My bet is on AI, mostly because the time horizon is a bit closer
There is a tsunami coming and not many people can see it. The worse part, is the people in charge are not the ones to roll out UBI. In fact, they are more likely to remove benefits.
Prof Eliot Jacobson has the decadal increase at 0.32°C/Decade, which given we are at 1.5°C now means ~2.5°C around 2050 and ~4°C by 2100
However, he also thinks the trend isn't linear and is quadratic, meaning an increasing rate of change, so that 4°C could be low
https://climatecasino.net/2025/01/betting-on-the-end-of-the-world-2025-edition/
We've found oxygen, but hard to say it's life
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2013/05/aa21014-12.pdf
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/oxygen-on-exoplanets-isnt-proof-of-life/
We've been geoengineering for some time without knowing it. That geoengineering project has masked atmospheric heating. Now we have to pay the piper
The video is hilarious. But soon these scammers will be replaced by AI, then we'll have AI's trying to scam AI's...
How many local TPU's do you need to run these latest models locally?