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Waymo has had dozens of crashes—almost all were a human driver's fault (www.understandingai.org)

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Sam Altman of OpenAI says the company wants to concentrate on replacing human workers, not making dimes from selling advertising. (stratechery.com)

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“I am more excited to figure out how we can charge people a lot of money for a really great automated software engineer or other kind of agent than I am making some number of dimes with an advertising-based model.”

Some people will argue this isn't replacing humans, just creating additional jobs for AI, and the human ones are safe. Somehow, I doubt it.

Also, Meta & Google are hardly making 'dimes' from selling advertising.

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Scientists in Germany created tiny magnetic coatings for very small algae. They think these coated algae could be guided by magnets to deliver medicine to specific areas in the body. (www.cell.com)

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India says it has achieved key milestones for the 2028 launch of an Indian Space Station to join the ISS and Tiangong Space Station. (www.theweek.in)

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets around the star HR 8799 which is 130 light-years away (webbtelescope.org)

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China's new battery material charges in secs, can transform EV industry (interestingengineering.com)

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With an initial capacity of 12,000 units/yr, California-based Figure has announced the development of a high-volume BotQ humanoid robot manufacturing facility. (www.linkedin.com)

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In a world first, Chinese scientists have demonstrated a brain-spine interface that enables paraplegic patients with severed spinal cords to walk again. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 8 points 1 week ago

This is only in 4 patients so far yet the results look amazing. 20 million people globally are living with some form of spinal cord injury. Hopefully insights gained from this work will quickly mean treatments for what was once seen as incurable.

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In a world first, Chinese scientists have demonstrated a brain-spine interface that enables paraplegic patients with severed spinal cords to walk again. (www.fudan.edu.cn)

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The crypto-industry is spending hundreds of millions to push its agenda in Washington, claiming the U.S. is in decline and advocating for global "network states" run by business owners. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always thought network states were just online communities

Perhaps for some, but the idea of making them physical territories has always been there too, and arguably is the idea in the ascendant now.

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The crypto-industry is spending hundreds of millions to push its agenda in Washington, claiming the U.S. is in decline and advocating for global "network states" run by business owners. (self.futurology)

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What had once been at the fringes of right-wing libertarianism is now mainstream in Washington. Greenland has long been on the radar of the crypto-libertarians as a territory to start their 'network states' dream; coincidentally, just as their cash has captured Washington politicians, the US is now talking of invading it.

Is there a more harmful dynamic at play? If those who believe your country is in irreversible decline are put in charge, might they intentionally worsen its state to prove their point? Some argue this is already happening.

Coincidentally, some might argue that is happening too.

Further Information - Article Oct 1st 2024.

Dark Energy experiment shakes Einstein's theory of Universe in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 2 points 2 weeks ago

From Galileo to Newton to Einstein, we've so many times had our ideas of the Universe completely and utterly upended. It seems to me when people talk about dark matter and dark energy, they're just tinkering with current ideas. When we really find the explanation, our ideas of what reality is will be completely shaken once again.

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4 technologies that could power the future of energy (www.technologyreview.com)

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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End (futurism.com)

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NVIDIA Announces Isaac GR00T N1 — the World’s First Open Humanoid Robot Foundation Model — and Simulation Frameworks to Speed Robot Development (nvidianews.nvidia.com)

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Mars could have an ocean's worth of water beneath its surface, seismic data suggest in c/futurology

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Rock From Mars has reached Earth so many times via asteroid ejecta, I assume the opposite has happened. In which case if there is life there surely the probability is it comes from Earth?

Baidu’s new multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 on several benchmarks—while being 99% cheaper. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder how long before the AI investor bubble bursts? OpenAI are still talking about raising hundreds of billions of dollars.

Outperformed by Chinese Open-Source AI, US firms want their government to ban it. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 7 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly, At best, it's a stay of execution.

Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage – And It’s a Game-Changer in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

According to the scientists, knowledge about the role of NEAT1 methylation in the recognition and repair of DNA damage could open up new therapeutic options for tumors with high NEAT1 expression. However, it must first be clarified whether these results, which were obtained in simple cell systems, can also be transferred to complex tumor models.

I wonder is AI developments can speed up this process of going from lab to (hopefully) a therapeutic treatment that is available.

Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

How are we supposed to police this? A vast global Orwellian monitoring system seems even worse.

Pentagon to give AI agents a role in planning, operations in c/futurology

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Indeed, Israel, for one, already uses Made-in-America AI models in war.

Indiscriminately murdering dozens of children a day has been a real advertisement of how brilliant these are.

Waymo testing Zeekr in Phoenix in c/avs

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 month ago

I believe so. Geely are Chinese. Even with tariffs, I suspect its Chinese EVs that are going to dominate in robotaxis.

Chinese breakthrough engine seeks to reduce flight times to half an hour in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm guessing if you were going to be able to travel at Mach 16, an entirely new type of airplane architecture, built with new types of material is going to be needed.

The lacklustre performance of ChatGPT 4.5 provides further evidence that the era of steady pretraining scaling is over. This has many implications for AI governance. in c/futurology

[–] Lugh 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes, I think that is what the problem is here. Some people used to have the idea that more scaling would be enough for reasoning to appear, but that hasn't happened.