What OpenAI Really Wants
Steven Levy | Wired
“For Altman and his firm, ChatGPT and GPT-4 are merely stepping stones alongside the way in which to attaining a easy and seismic mission, one these technologists might as properly have branded on their flesh. That mission is to construct synthetic common intelligence—an idea that’s thus far been grounded extra in science fiction than science—and to make it secure for humanity. The individuals who work at OpenAI are fanatical of their pursuit of that objective.”
The Secret to Nvidia’s AI Success
Samuel Okay. Moore | IEEE Spectrum
“[Nvidia] has managed to extend the efficiency of its chips on AI duties a thousandfold over the previous 10 years, it’s raking in cash, and it’s reportedly very onerous to get your palms on its latest AI-accelerating GPU, the H100. How did Nvidia get right here? …Moore’s Regulation was a surprisingly small a part of Nvidia’s magic and new quantity codecs a really massive half. Put all of it collectively and also you get what Dally referred to as Huang’s Regulation (for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang).”
Roblox’s New AI Chatbot Will Help You Build Virtual Worlds
Jay Peters | The Verge
“The brand new device, the Roblox Assistant, builds on beforehand introduced options that allow creators construct digital belongings and write code with the assistance of generative AI. …Down the road, Roblox has greater visions for Roblox Assistant, and Sturman teased that it may generate refined gameplay and even make 3D fashions from scratch. If that every one works, it may deliver Roblox according to CEO David Baszucki’s imaginative and prescient of Westworld-like ease of design.”
Apple Is Reportedly Spending ‘Millions of Dollars a Day’ Training AI
Monica Chin | The Verge
“The corporate is reportedly engaged on a number of AI fashions throughout a number of groups. Apple’s unit that works on conversational AI known as ‘Foundational Fashions,’ per The Data’s reporting. It has ‘round 16’ members, together with a number of former Google engineers. Extra groups at Apple are additionally engaged on synthetic intelligence, per The Data. A Visible Intelligence unit is growing a picture era mannequin, and one other group is researching ‘multimodal AI, which might acknowledge and produce photographs or video in addition to textual content.’”
SpaceX Broke Its Record for Number of Launches in a Year
Stephen Clark | Ars Technica
“SpaceX is main the world not simply within the variety of launches, but additionally within the whole payload mass the corporate has launched into orbit this yr. Within the first half of 2023, SpaceX delivered about 447 metric tons of cargo into orbit, roughly 80 p.c of all the fabric launched into orbit worldwide, in accordance with information from the area analytics agency BryceTech. Musk mentioned SpaceX will launch about 90 p.c of the world’s whole payload mass into orbit subsequent yr, primarily based on the corporate’s launch manifest for 2024.”
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Refik Anadol Just Turned the Las Vegas Sphere Into the World’s Largest AI Artwork
Jesus Diaz | Quick Firm
“With Sphere, the constructing is the canvas—a bland engineering marvel that transforms into one thing visually arresting as soon as Anadol will get his palms on it. ‘I feel this is without doubt one of the most Blade Runner moments ever,’ he says. ‘A science fiction second that, lastly, merges media arts and structure, embedding expertise right into a bodily setting that exists in the actual world.’”
Redwire Space Prints Human Knee Cartilage in Space for the First Time
Aria Alamalhodaei | TechCrunch
“Redwire House has efficiently ‘bioprinted’ a human knee meniscus aboard the Worldwide House Station, a landmark improvement that might assist individuals recovering from meniscus accidents right here on Earth. The meniscus cartilage was printed on Redwire’s BioFabrication Facility (BFF) on the ISS. …After the BFF printed the meniscus with dwelling human cells, it was transferred to Redwire’s Superior House Experiment Processor for a 14-day enculturation course of. After the tradition course of was full, the meniscus was packaged up and despatched again to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Crew-6 mission.”
FAA Clears UPS Delivery Drones for Longer-Range Flights
Sheena Vasani | The Verge
“UPS Flight Ahead, a UPS subsidiary centered on drone supply, can now ship small packages past the visible line of sight (BVLOS) with out spotters on the bottom monitoring the route and skies for different plane, utilizing Matternet M2 drones. The FAA additionally introduced authorizations for 2 different firms to fly past sight for industrial functions.”
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