Lifeboat Foundation

“AI” AS THE MODERN VERSION OF BELEIF IN A MAGICAL ALCHEMY. Although widely promoted as being possible, it grows increasingly ridiculous the more that complexity is added. This means a gigantic market bubble is building up for a tremendous burst, UNLESS, the obvious is done: simply treat it as any other useful human-created tool, such as a hammer, a screw driver, or an airplane. Are screw drivers going to rise up and threaten humanity? It is not physically possible in the real physical universe that “ai”, or any other human-created tool, will ever pose a danger to humanity. It CAN be misused by humans, but cannot of its own non-existent will decide to be a danger. It is high time to stop being afraid of the modern version of non-existent ghosts and goblins, otherwise known as “ai.” Stop scaring little boys and girls with superstitious monster stories and, instead, tell them what a wonderful new tool we now have! Like any tool, it increases the degree of freedom and power of the human mind to intervene in the universe. If we want a real “ai”, that will come from our speeding up the evolution of intelligent animals such as octopuses and seeding them on places like the oceans of Europa, the moon of Jupiter.

A demo video shows OpenAI’s new o1 tool measuring liquids in inches.

Requiring consistency between the physics of neutron stars and quark matter leads to the first astrophysical constraint on this exotic phase of matter.

Recent research uses neutron star measurements to place empirical limits on the strength of color superconducting pairing in quark matter, revealing new insights into the physics of the densest visible matter in the universe through astronomical observations.

Color Superconductivity

Researchers find evidence of superfluidity in low-density neutron matter by using highly flexible neural-network representations of quantum wave functions.

A groundbreaking study employing artificial neural networks has refined our understanding of neutron superfluidity in neutron stars, proposing a cost-effective model that rivals traditional computational approaches in predicting neutron behavior and emergent quantum phenomena.

Neutron Superfluidity in Neutron Stars.

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Finding a bubble of hot gas blown by the stellar wind from a young star gives researchers a peek at what our sun was like when it was young.

See how elliptical galaxies in the distant universe were born, as new research gives astronomers a closer look at galactic collisions and star formation.

Our sun has had close encounters with other stars in the past, and it’s due for a dangerously close one in the not-so-distant future.

Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed map of the gravitational wave background to date, using pulsar timing arrays and the extraordinary sensitivity of the MeerKAT radio telescope. In my new co-author paper, we find potential tantalising hints of a “hot spot” in the gravitational wave map.

‘Cosmic collisions’ 12bn years ago could be key to understanding formation, say researchers.