Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a “midlevel engineer” this year.
Imagine you could pause your life and wake up in the future.
A new groundbreaking facility could allow humans to freeze their bodies and potentially wake up in the future.
The company behind the project, TimeShift, describes itself as the world’s first AI-powered cryopreservation facility. It combines advanced AI technology with novel cryopreservation techniques.
Experimental model’s record-breaking performance on science and maths tests wows researchers.
AI models, like ChatGPT-4, can simulate human-like reasoning by solving theory of mind tasks. This breakthrough suggests AI’s potential for advanced social interactions but raises ethical concerns about trust and misuse.
The next generations of AI will not only do more, they’ll also be more rooted in trusted sources of information. This will make them accurate and reliable at a whole new level. By demarcating boundaries and fostering trust, we can create AI companions that are safe, reliable, and deeply integrated into our personal and professional lives; AIs that begin to address those wider societal issues. We have all got used to the idea that AI might help with productivity applications, but we need to realize that, alongside this, AI can be an emotional support as well.
This is not about replacing human relationships. It’s about opening previously unimaginable new spaces and possibilities. It’s about overhauling a broken system of addictive technologies. After another year of AI hype and of increased questions about the direction of innovation, at a time when looking at our emails, our bills, or a news item can deliver an unwanted spike of adrenaline, we need a better vision for what will be the most transformative technology of all. In this context, the AI companion is both a call to action—this is what we need to build—and also a prediction: this is the direction the technology is now decisively taking.
Too many people have gotten stuck in an outdated view of AI. Let’s embrace a future that is at once far more real, and far richer, than the popular narratives suggest. Get AI right and it will be a profound new source of education, support, entertainment, and information. But it will also be something way beyond just a tool—it will be a companion in the fullest sense.
Biological replacement and cryopreservation to significantly extend human lifespans — eli mohamad & kai micah mills — hydradao and cryodao.
Eli Mohamad is a prominent figure in the biotech, space, and AI industries who has co-founded several successful startups and has a real passion for groundbreaking ventures that focus on the development of futuristic technologies.
Following the disbanding and reinstating of OpenAI’s robotics department over the past years and reports of OpenAI building its own robot, a series of new job listings on the robotics team suggest the company is finally ready to leap into hardware.
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Last Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in November to lead the robotics and consumer hardware team, shared the first OpenAI Robotics hardware roles via an X post. These job postings include an EE Sensing Engineer, Robotics Mechanical Design Engineer, and TPM Manager.
If you’re setting out to build an underwater robot that’s speedy, maneuverable and versatile, why not just copy what already works in the natural world? That’s exactly what China’s Beatbot has done, with its bio-inspired Amphibious RoboTurtle.
Unveiled in prototype form last week at CES, the autonomous robot is designed for applications including ecological research, environmental monitoring, and disaster response.
As such, it can be equipped with hardware such as a water sampling unit, GPS module, ultrasonic sensors, and AI-enabled cameras. The latter reportedly allow it to perceive and react to changes in its environment, and to autonomously track/follow marine animals.
