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New Jersey Moves to Ban New Gas Powered Vehicle Sales From 2035 (www.motor1.com)
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AI Is the New Industrial Revolution. Work Will Change. (www.barrons.com)
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AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms (www.cam.ac.uk)
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One of DeepMind's founders, Mustafa Suleyman, says his new AI called Inflection-2 is the world's second most powerful, and just behind OpenAI's GPT-4. (www.forbes.com)
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An American Complexity Scientist says AI's upcoming detrimental effects on the elite and educated, will drive reactions far more than previous automation has had on the less educated and working class (peterturchin.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Biohybrid microrobots could remove micro- and nano-plastics from aquatic environments (phys.org)
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Synthetic yeast project unveils cells with 50% artificial DNA, and says yeast cells with fully synthetic genomes are about a year away. (www.science.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Possible OpenAI's Q* breakthrough and DeepMind's AlphaGo-type systems plus LLMs (www.lesswrong.com)
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The 'Impossible' Quantum Drive That Defies Known Laws of Physics was Just Launched into Space (thedebrief.org)
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Korean researchers have demonstrated a simple inexpensive robotic exoskeleton they say, if commercialized, could make elderly people more robust in walking. (techxplore.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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NASA May Pay $1 Billion to Destroy the International Space Station. Here’s Why. (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 2 years ago by RewindAgain@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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NYC Will Soon Be Home to 15 Robot-Run Vegetarian Restaurants From Chipotle’s Founder (ny.eater.com)
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280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (arstechnica.com)
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Solar power due to overtake oil production investment for first time, IEA says (www.reuters.com)
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ChatGPT creator Sam Altman lands Microsoft job after ousting by OpenAI board (news.sky.com)
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Battery prices are forecast to fall 40% by 2025, and by 13% every year until 2030. (www.goldmansachs.com)
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A robotics developer says advanced robots will be created much sooner than most people expect. The same approach that has rapidly advanced AI is about to do the same for robotics. (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Swiss Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies, says Waymo's self-driving cars are already safer than human driven cars. (www.swissre.com)
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A new type of AI model that can beat humans at all types of games, not just individual ones, may be a step towards AGI. (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 2 years ago by BaylorSwift3@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Britain has greenlit the country's free healthcare system to use a CRISPR gene-editing therapy for sickle cell anaemia that it is hoped will be a complete cure for the genetic disorder. (www.theguardian.com)
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Researchers think the upcoming generation of gravitational wave detectors may be sensitive enough to detect techno-signatures of extraterrestrial civilizations. (thedebrief.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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In a survey of 216 Computer Science professors - 95% believe deepfake AI is now 'advanced' and 40% think digital certification should be used to deal with it. (www.axios.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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AI is coming for our jobs! Could universal basic income be the solution? (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance (aimodels.substack.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Espiritdescali@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will (phys.org)
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