Giant Chips Give Supercomputers a Run for Their Money
Gina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum
“[Cerebras recently] demonstrated that its second technology wafer-scale engine, WSE-2, was considerably quicker than the world’s quickest supercomputer, Frontier, in molecular dynamics calculations… [And] in collaboration with machine studying mannequin optimization firm Neural Magic, Cerebras demonstrated {that a} sparse massive language mannequin might carry out inference at one-third of the power price of a full mannequin with out dropping any accuracy.”
Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product
Will Knight | Wired
“Fairly than a stand-alone gadget or expertise, Apple has targeted on how generative AI can enhance apps and OS options in small but significant methods. Early adopters have actually flocked to generative AI applications like ChatGPT for assist redrafting emails, summarizing paperwork, and producing photographs, however this has sometimes meant opening one other browser window or app, slicing and pasting, and attempting to make sense of a chatbot’s generally fevered ramblings. To be really helpful, generative AI might want to seep into know-how we already use in methods we will higher perceive and belief.”
Lung-Targeted CRISPR Therapy Offers Hope for Cystic Fibrosis
Christa Lesté-Lasserre | New Scientist
“CRISPR gene-editing remedy has the potential to supply an efficient, long-lasting therapy for cystic fibrosis after overcoming a significant problem that held again earlier genetic therapies. The strategy has succeeded in modifying DNA in hard-to-reach lung stem cells in mice, with modifications that endured for no less than 22 months—basically the animals’ total lives, says Daniel Siegwart on the College of Texas Southwestern Medical Heart.”
POLITICS
An AI Bot Is (Sort of) Running for Mayor in Wyoming
Vittoria Elliot | Wired
“Victor Miller is operating for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an uncommon marketing campaign promise: If elected, he’ll not be calling the pictures—an AI bot will. VIC, the Digital Built-in Citizen, is a ChatGPT-based chatbot that Miller created. And Miller says the bot has higher concepts—and a greater grasp of the legislation—than many individuals presently serving in authorities. ‘I noticed that this entity is means smarter than me, and extra importantly, means higher than among the outward-facing public servants I see,’ he says.”
Biotech Companies Are Trying to Make Milk Without Cows
Antonio Regalado | MIT Know-how Assessment
“The FDA says that industrial milk is protected [from avian influenza] as a result of it’s pasteurized, killing the germs. Even so, it’s sufficient to make an individual ponder a life past milk—say, taking your espresso black or perhaps consuming oat milk. However for these of us who can’t do with out the true factor, it seems some genetic engineers are engaged on methods to maintain the milk and do away with the cows as an alternative.”
Can Apple Rescue the Vision Pro?
Kevin Roose | The New York Occasions
“To reside as much as its potential, the Imaginative and prescient Professional wants somewhat extra love and, effectively, somewhat extra imaginative and prescient. Apple wants higher solutions to fundamental questions like: What is that this for? How will it enhance my life, or make me extra productive than different issues I might purchase for $3,500? What can I do on it that I can’t do on my laptop computer, or a giant TV? In any other case, the Imaginative and prescient Professional could also be destined for obsolescence. And I and my fellow Imaginative and prescient Bros could emerge because the Google Glassholes of 2024—a courageous however finally silly tribe of nerds who took a bet on a futuristic new know-how and misplaced.”
OpenAI’s Revenue Is Skyrocketing
Laura Bratton | Quartz
“OpenAI has greater than tripled its annualized income over the previous 12 months, based on The Data. Annualized income is an estimate for a corporation’s income for the 12 months utilizing partial knowledge—in different phrases, you multiply the previous month’s income by 12. OpenAI’s annualized income was round $1 billion final summer time, $1.6 billion in late 2023, and has now reached $3.4 billion, the outlet stated.”
Humanoid Chauffeur Put in the Driving Seat for Robotaxi Future
Paul Ridden | New Atlas
“Musashi is a ‘musculoskeletal humanoid’ developed by [a Japanese] analysis group in 2019 as a testbed for studying management techniques. The shape issue not solely has comparable proportions to a human counterpart but additionally includes a ‘joint and muscle construction’ impressed by the human physique. The robotic has now discovered use in an autonomous driving challenge the place it’s been educated by members of the Jouhou System Kougaku Lab to grasp driving in the same approach to people. With various levels of success, as you’ll be able to see within the video beneath.”
GADGETS
The AI Upgrade Cycle Is Here
Jay Peters | The Verge
“AI has shortly turn out to be the newest entry within the tech business’s by no means ending need to drive an improve cycle. A couple of years in the past, each smartphone maker raced to 5G; greater than a decade in the past, the TV business pushed for 3D TVs. Proper now, each tech firm clearly sees a possibility with AI and is including AI options confined to their newest and best units in consequence. However just like the race to 5G, the mad rush towards AI is going on shortly and earlier than the tech has been confirmed helpful and its issues ironed out.”
