Lugh

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Here's a video of the robots moving over new terrain they’ve never seen before. Here’s more info on the medical-equipped models.

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.

 

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.

 

“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.

[–] Lugh 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The report highlighted a continued decline in fossil fuel dependency, with gas generation falling for the fifth consecutive year and overall fossil-fueled power dropping to a historic low of 29%.

Even when Russia makes it back to international markets with their natural gas, no one in Europe is going to want it.

[–] Lugh 5 points 5 months ago

I don’t expect the EU or India, or other countries to catch up soon on the level and price of green tech that China now has.

Europe would be smart to mandate some of the billions they are going to spend on this, come from Euro-sources. It makes it much easier to match Chinese manufacturing economies for Euro-exports elsewhere.

[–] Lugh 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, the US political system is now even more corrupt than before. At least the Democrats were making some effort, and I'm sure blue states like California still will.

[–] Lugh 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

The US is just 16% of Chinese exports. Any tariff disruption will be made up for many, many times over by being OPEC of 21st century renewable energy to the rest of the world.

https://wits.worldbank.org/countrysnapshot/en/chn

[–] Lugh 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

True. Like Bitcoin, when something is hyped to the moon this much, its to feed the casino and get the price higher to take profits before it all crashes.

[–] Lugh 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Will OpenAI ever make a dime in profit? At every turn, open-source matches it, but for free. It's competitors aren't fools, part of the push to open-source is to bleed out competitors. I'll be surprised if their isn't a major stock market correction during Trump's term. A lot of this AI investor money could go up in smoke.

[–] Lugh 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Banning gasoline cars isn't that radical a step for Norway - 90% of new cars sold there are already EVs. This also doesn't mean the disappearance of ICE cars from Norwegian roads, the old stock will have to gradually disappear as it ages out.

The EU (which Norway isn't in) has set 2035 as the date for banning the sale of new gasoline cars there. However, many think most car makers will have stopped selling them in Europe before that date. As their market share shrinks, it will become unprofitable to make them anymore.

[–] Lugh 4 points 5 months ago

It's interesting to wonder how many hitherto unseen patterns in science and nature AI will find.

[–] Lugh 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Human attention is a finite resource. There aren't enough people to be interested in all this AI auto generated slop. If anything a deluge of AI-generated slop will make people more interested in focusing on humans they find interesting.

[–] Lugh 10 points 5 months ago (8 children)

There's so much to legitimately worry about with AI, that we often lose sight of its potential good.

[–] Lugh 1 points 5 months ago

Building trustworthy AI won’t be easy, but it’s essential.

It doesn't seem a top priority for most of the people creating AI. I suspect we will mainly be learning from our mistakes here, after they've happened.

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