Mark Zuckerberg’s New Goal Is Creating Artificial General Intelligence
Alex Heath | The Verge
“Fueling the generative AI craze is a perception that the tech business is on a path to reaching superhuman, god-like intelligence. OpenAI’s said mission is to create this synthetic common intelligence, or AGI. Demis Hassabis, the chief of Google’s AI efforts, has the identical purpose. Now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is coming into the race.”
Why Everyone’s Excited About Household Robots Again
Melissa Heikkiläarchive web page | MIT Know-how Evaluate
“Robotics is at an inflection level, says Chelsea Finn, an assistant professor at Stanford College, who was an advisor for the [Mobile ALOHA] mission. Prior to now, researchers have been constrained by the quantity of knowledge they will practice robots on. Now there’s much more knowledge accessible, and work like Cell ALOHA exhibits that with neural networks and extra knowledge, robots can study complicated duties pretty rapidly and simply, she says.”
Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Hannah Ritchie | Wired
“Each November, the International Carbon Mission publishes the yr’s international CO2 emissions. It’s by no means excellent news. At a time when the world must be decreasing emissions, the numbers proceed to climb. Nevertheless, whereas emissions have been shifting within the flawed route, most of the underpinning financial forces that drive them have been going the precise manner. This might properly be the yr when these varied forces push onerous sufficient to lastly tip the steadiness.”
Meet ReTro, the First Cloned Rhesus Monkey to Reach Adulthood
Miryam Naddaf | Nature Journal
“For the primary time, a cloned rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) has lived into maturity—surviving for greater than two years up to now. The feat, described [this week] in Nature Communications, marks the primary profitable cloning of the species. It was achieved utilizing a barely totally different strategy from the traditional approach that was used to clone Dolly the sheep and different mammals, together with long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), the primary primates to be cloned.”
I Literally Spoke With Nvidia’s AI-Powered Video Game NPCs
Sean Hollister | The Verge
“What when you might simply… communicate…to online game characters? Ask your individual questions, with your individual voice, as a substitute of selecting from preset phrases? Final Might, Nvidia and its associate Convai confirmed off a reasonably unconvincing canned demo of such a system—however this January, I obtained to strive a totally interactive model for myself at CES 2024. I walked away satisfied we’ll inevitably see one thing like this in future video games.”
What Does Ukraine’s Million-Drone Army Mean for the Future of War?
David Hambling | New Scientist
“Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has promised that in 2024 the nation’s army can have 1,000,000 drones. His nation already deploys tons of of hundreds of small drones, however this can be a main change—a transition to a army with extra drones than troopers. What does that imply for the way forward for battle?”
Japan Reaches the Moon, but the Fate of Its Precision Lander Is Uncertain
Jonathan O’Callaghan | Scientific American
“…JAXA officers revealed that though SLIM is in touch with mission controllers and precisely responding to instructions, the lander’s photo voltaic panels should not producing energy, and far of the gathered knowledge onboard the spacecraft have but to be returned to Earth. The mission is consequently working on batteries, which have the capability to energy its operations for a number of hours. After SLIM drains its batteries, its operations will stop—however the spacecraft could reawaken if its solar energy provide could be restored.”
NASA Unveils X-59 Plane to Test Supersonic Flight Over US Cities
Matthew Sparkes | New Scientist
“‘Concorde’s sound would have been like thunder proper overhead or a balloon popping proper subsequent to you, whereas our sound might be extra of a thump or a rumble, extra in step with distant thunder or your neighbor’s automotive door down the road being closed,’ says Bahm. ‘We predict that it’ll extra mix into the background of on a regular basis life than the Concorde did.’”
NASA’s Robotic, Self-Assembling Structures Could Be the Next Phase of Space Construction
Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch
“Dangerous information if you wish to transfer to the moon or Mars: housing is a bit of onerous to come back by. Thankfully, NASA (as at all times) is considering forward, and has simply proven off a self-assembling robotic construction that may simply be a vital a part of shifting off-planet. …The fundamental concept of the self-building construction is in a intelligent synergy between the constructing materials—cuboctahedral frames they name voxels—and the 2 kinds of robots that assemble them.”
