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3 days ago · Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature,...
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Nov 9, 2024 · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Why AI Could Eat Quantum Computing’s Lunch Edd Gent | MIT Technology Review “The scale and complexity of quantum systems that can be simulated using AI is advancing rapidly, says Giuseppe Carleo, a professor of computational physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). …
Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You
Nov 14, 2024 · Dr. Shelly Xuelai Fan is a neuroscientist-turned-science-writer. She's fascinated with research about the brain, AI, longevity, biotech, and especially their intersection.
Cosmology Is at a Tipping Point—We May Be on the Verge of …
Sep 24, 2024 · For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with some recent observations.
AI Models Scaled Up 10,000x Are Possible by 2030, Report Says
Aug 29, 2024 · Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale. Around the beginning of this decade, AI labs noticed that making their algorithms—or models—ever bigger and feeding them more data consistently led to enormous improvements in what they …
This Biohybrid Robot Is Made of Human Cells and Controlled by a …
Sep 30, 2024 · Dr. Shelly Xuelai Fan is a neuroscientist-turned-science-writer. She's fascinated with research about the brain, AI, longevity, biotech, and especially their intersection.
This Radical New Farming Method Would Replace Photosynthesis …
Oct 24, 2024 · Dr. Shelly Xuelai Fan is a neuroscientist-turned-science-writer. She's fascinated with research about the brain, AI, longevity, biotech, and especially their intersection.
A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From …
Nov 18, 2024 · All life on Earth is written with four DNA “letters.” An AI just used those letters to dream up a completely new genome from scratch. Called Evo, the AI was inspired by the large language models, or LLMs, underlying popular chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.These models have taken the world by storm for their prowess at generating human-like responses.
Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating — Because It Actually Is
Mar 22, 2016 · This is the second in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity Is Near. Be sure to read the other articles: Will the End of Moore’s Law Halt Computing’s Exponential Rise? How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future “Technology […]
3 Major Materials Science Breakthroughs—and Why They Matter …
May 21, 2020 · Few recognize the vast implications of materials science. To build today’s smartphone in the 1980s, it would cost about $110 million, require nearly 200 kilowatts of energy (compared to 2kW per year today), and the device would be 14 meters tall, according to Applied Materials CTO Omkaram Nalamasu. That’s the power of materials advances.