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Jul 31, 2024

Surprising Outcome Of Carl Sagan’s Famous 1975 Prediction About AI Becoming Your Attentive Psychotherapist

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

I will begin with the first point and make my way gradually to the tenth point.

I’ve already mentioned to you that the AI of the 1970s was toy-like in comparison to the more involved and expansive AI of today. Modern-day generative AI, for example, makes use of vast amounts of data as scanned across the Internet to pattern-match the nature of human writing. This requires a massive amount of computing resources (something far beyond the depth readily employable in the 1970s). The large-scale modeling or pattern matching is what makes contemporary generative AI seem highly fluent.

A common phrase is to say that generative AI is mimicking or parroting human writing.

Jul 31, 2024

Intense Exercise Boosts Seniors’ Brain Health Long-Term

Posted by in categories: health, neuroscience

Everyone knows that exercise helps both body and mind, but high-intensity interval training (HIIT) offers older adults an even greater boost for long-term brain health, compared to less intense workouts.

Jul 31, 2024

Qstr Talk by Yusuke Moriguchi: Color qualia similarity structures in children and adults

Posted by in category: futurism

Comparing color qualia structures through a novel similarity task in young children versus adults https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/wdcu7Moriguchi, Y., Watana…

Jul 31, 2024

The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, transportation

In a gold-trimmed command center on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, scientists are seeking to wring moisture from desert skies. But will all their extravagant cloud-seeding tech—planes that sprinkle nanomaterials, lasers that scramble the atmosphere—really work at scale?

Jul 31, 2024

You may soon be able to unlock your Apple devices with your heart

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, security

Passwords, Touch ID, and Face ID could all be a thing of the past, as Apple is working on a future where unlocking your devices is as easy as just holding a future iPhone or letting your Apple Watch sense your unique heart rhythm.

Everyone’s heart has a unique rhythm, which the Apple Watch monitors through the ECG app. In a recently granted patent, Apple describes a technique for identifying users based on their unique cardiovascular measurements.

With this technology, you can unlock all your devices if you keep wearing your Apple Watch. Verifying your heart patterns instead of a password or a fingerprint scan increases security and speeds up your identification.

Jul 31, 2024

Layered superconductor coaxed to show unusual properties with potential for quantum computing

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A team led by researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has designed a unique material based on a conventional superconductor—that is, a substance that enables electrons to travel through it with zero resistance under certain conditions, such as extremely low temperature. The experimental material showed properties signaling its potential for use in quantum computing, a developing technology with capabilities beyond those of classical digital computers.

Jul 31, 2024

Physically viable rotating mass solutions surrounding Kerr black holes

Posted by in category: cosmology

Many celestial bodies in the Universe are rotating, It is thus of great astrophysical interest to find exact metrics describing rotating, axially symmetric, isolated bodies. In the literature, many methods have been developed (see for example [

Jul 31, 2024

Black holes as particle accelerators: a brief review

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

Tomohiro harada 1 and masashi kimura 2

Published 28 November 2014 • © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Jul 31, 2024

Paper page — Visual Riddles: a Commonsense and World Knowledge Challenge for Large Vision and Language Models

Posted by in category: futurism

Visual riddles a commonsense and world knowledge challenge for large vision and language models.

Visual Riddles.

A commonsense and world knowledge challenge for large vision and language models.

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Jul 31, 2024

Navigating The Looming AI Energy Crunch

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability

Brandon Wang is vice president of Synopsys.

The rapid development of AI has led to significant growth across the computing industry. But it is also causing a huge increase in energy consumption, which is leading us into an energy crisis. Current AI models, especially large language models (LLMs), need huge amounts of power to train and run. AI queries require much more energy than traditional searches; for example, asking ChatGPT a question consumes up to 25 times as much energy as a Google search. At current rates of growth, AI is expected to account for up to 3.5% of global electricity demand by 2030, twice as much as the country of France.

We need to address this issue urgently before it becomes unsustainable. If we don’t, the impact could threaten sustainable growth and the widespread adoption of AI technologies themselves. Fortunately, there are a number of pathways toward more energy-efficient AI systems and computing architectures.

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