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It looks like these robots could cover 500 meters in just a few minutes. At their current price, it might be worth placing them all over cities. If they had a 911 audio link, the closest person nearby could use the CPR machine on heart attack victims until paramedics arrive.

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Leaked Database Reveals China’s Use of AI to Supercharge Online Censorship (techcrunch.com)

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As the US moves to ban mRNA vaccine and cancer research, other countries want the US-based scientists to move and continue their research with them. (www.theguardian.com)

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mRNA vaccines stopped Covid and will protect against H5N1 bird flu if it becomes a pandemic. Scientists say H5N1 is now here to stay, and even if it doesn’t cause a pandemic, another virus will.

mRNA cancer treatments—a breakthrough approach—use mRNA to teach the immune system to fight cancer. Trials are testing both custom and pre-made vaccines.

But in the U.S., this research risks losing funding or even being banned. The good news? Other countries want to keep it going. EU and Swedish science leaders like Maria Leptin and Sten Linnarsson are already offering scientists jobs abroad.

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Bill Gates says within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers & humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’. (www.cnbc.com)

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Figure AI published new research and demos of its Figure 02 humanoid achieving natural human-like walking, conducting years worth of simulated training in just hours. (www.figure.ai)

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Users experience of Google's NotebookLM AI, shows why AI may be very bad news for some large established software companies. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Customer relationship management software puts its details into structured fields, like many other types of software, a database of sorts. This user is saying that extra step is no longer needed. The AI is capable of extracting, summarizing, and structuring the data from emails, Slack, etc - thus no more need for the software anymore.

In France, a Level 4 self-driving mini-shuttle bus, with a 10-person capacity, is showing the future of public transit. in c/avs

[–] Lugh 1 points 10 months ago

Understandably, we often focus on the downsides of self-driving vehicles - the loss of human driving jobs. However, that stops us from thinking about their ultimate promise. When the tech is mature and commoditized, mini-shuttles like this will be ultra-cheap to run.

They'll also have a vast market of potential users. Furthermore, the Level 4 self-driving tech they need is already here. I suspect the future will have 10 to 100 times more public transit routes; many operated by small self-driving shuttles like this.

Anthropic's latest advance with AI, where it can operate on-screen software, shows us how future AI can replace much of today's human knowledge work. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've been wondering when current LLM AIs would start to master this ability. I suspect it will be one of the things it's good at. For many tasks, software usage patterns are relatively predictable and modelable. A trend with current AI, is for competitors and open-source to rapidly follow industry leaders. We can expect AI like this to be widely available in six months.

Many people's knowledge work employment is tied to software skills and experience. That premium is about to start diminishing. People are familiar with the concept of 'macros'; automating repetitive sequences of software usage. It seems all but inevitable AI will be doing something similar, but orders of magnitude greater, and that all the forces in free market economics will be driving it to replace expensive humans.

With 'electro-agriculture,' plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I also forgot to mention this tech is a safeguard against supply-side shocks. like with wheat after Russia attacked Ukraine.

With 'electro-agriculture,' plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Some people's reaction to this proposal might be to wonder why bother? We already have a functional agriculture system using sunlight that's been working for several thousand years. But there is a lot to be said for improving on it.

This approach could grow many foods where they can't currently be grown. Thus we could localize food production, and decentralize it. This could vastly reduce the waste of food transport. Furthermore, pollution from pesticides could be vastly reduced. It also allows us to think about rewilding huge swathes of our environments. Finally, this is an approach amenable to full automation. Ultimately that will reduce the price of food and its availability. Who knows, several decades from now, the standard way to produce food may be via indoor methods tended to by robot farmers.

Spanish researchers have developed an intermediate band (IB) solar cell using gallium phosphide and titanium, which has the potential to achieve an energy conversion efficiency of up to 60%. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, like everything the challenge is to get from the Lab to production. Perovskite solar cells, another type of solar cells that show great theoretical promise, have issues with long-term stability. Solar cells need to survive in tough conditions for many years to be useful. Here I would also wonder about the relative scarcity of gallium being a limiting factor.

Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 1 points 10 months ago

That I can help you with.

Without doxxing them, this reddit user campaigns a lot IRL on UBI - their posts/UBI subreddits have loads of stuff - https://www.reddit.com/user/2noame

Also Twitter has load of stuff - search 'UBI' there, scroll down based on 'Top' and there are lots of accounts devoted to UBI news.

BTW - You're welcome to setup https://futurology.today/UBI here too & cross-post/double-post if you want

Apple scraps car project, but tech lives on in BYD's EV success in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bet it's going to be China building most of the humanoid robots too.

Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

apart from posting regularly, sadly I don't have many ideas. 😞😞

We've had real trouble growing this site from the reddit sub-reddit, and the promotional posts we've done, in total, have had tens of thousands of views

Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the people that own the machines have any interest in keeping us alive

I never take ideas like that seriously. Even in sci-fi, the concept seems wildly fanciful.

Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If AI/robotics follow the typical s-curve of technological adoption, I think the 2030s is most likely. We already seem to be at the beginning of that s-curve in 2024.

Anthropic says latest AI model can control users’ computers in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 10 points 10 months ago

That's a hard no from me. I won't go near Google or Microsoft's latest AI offerings either. That said I'm using gen-AI in other contexts more and more. I'm fine with it, as long as it has strictly limited access to my data.