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$750 a month was given to homeless people in California. What they spent it on is more evidence that universal basic income works. (www.businessinsider.com)
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Election misinformation is systemic in Microsoft’s GPT-4 powered AI 'Copilot,’ Research shows one third of replies to election questions are lies, conspiracy theories, outdated, and incorrect info. (www.wired.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Bridgewater, the US's biggest hedge fund, has a truly bizarre take on AI and robots replacing human workers. (www.bridgewater.com)
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Boston-based startup Fourth Power, says its 2400°C thermal battery will be 10X cheaper than lithium-ion (www.inceptivemind.com)
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How May Mobility went fully driverless while avoiding the pitfalls of robotaxis. (www.theverge.com)
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A Chinese EV squeezed over 1,000 km of range from its 150 kWh battery - Mass production of the new battery will begin in April 2024. (www.engadget.com)
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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 (www.newscientist.com)
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US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over (www.nature.com)
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New approach to 'cosmic magnet' manufacturing could reduce reliance on rare earths in low-carbon technologies (phys.org)
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Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science? Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research. (www.nature.com)
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In a World First, a Patient’s Antibody Cells Were Just Genetically Engineered. (www.wired.com)
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The US Democratic Party has begun using AI to phone voters and campaign on their behalf. The company providing the service says they expect to scale fast to thousands of calls a day. (www.reuters.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Is AlphaCode 2 a Q* Moment for Google? (analyticsindiamag.com)
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AI Accelerates Ability to Program Biology Like Software (www.wsj.com)
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Australian researchers have achieved 40% accuracy with a non-invasive head cap that can decode silent thoughts and turn them into text. (www.uts.edu.au)
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Australian researchers develop a neuromorphic supercomputer capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, a rate comparable to the human brain's capabilities. (www.terradaily.com)
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Amazon to connect Project Kuiper Internet satellites in laser 'mesh network' that can transmit at 100 GB/s over 1,000 km. (www.upi.com)
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AI scientists make ‘exciting’ discovery using chatbots to solve maths problems - Breakthrough suggests technology behind ChatGPT and Bard can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge (www.theguardian.com)
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Researchers develop a system to quickly train robots from smartphone videos; this may open a huge source of new training data, and accelerate robot development. (www.technologyreview.com)
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Researchers in the Netherlands have created wireless robots on a millimeter size that can navigate through arteries, potentially eliminating the need for vascular surgery such as blood clot removal (medicalxpress.com)
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Study shows that large language AI models can strategically deceive users when under pressure. (techxplore.com)
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COP28 climate summit signals the end of fossil fuels — but is it enough? - Nations make historic pledge to 'transition' energy systems away from fossil fuels. (www.nature.com)
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Black holes may not contain singularities after all. (arxiv.org)
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Doctors Invent New Way to 3D Print Inside the Body (futurism.com)
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A cashless future is a bad idea, but it’s not a conspiracy . (aeon.co)
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