{"id":10906,"date":"2024-05-27T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2024-05-27T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:43:05","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-may-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=10906","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/pocket-sized-ai-models-unlock-new-era-of-computing\/\"><strong>Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Will Knight | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201cWhen ChatGPT was launched in November 2023, it may solely be accessed by the cloud as a result of the mannequin behind it was downright monumental. In the present day I&#8217;m working a equally succesful AI program on a Macbook Air, and it isn\u2019t even heat. The shrinkage exhibits how quickly researchers are refining AI fashions to make them leaner and extra environment friendly. It additionally exhibits how going to ever bigger scales isn\u2019t the one method to make machines considerably smarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">archive web page<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/5\/23\/24162896\/google-ai-overview-hallucinations-glue-in-pizza\"><strong>Google Promised a Better Search Experience\u2014Now It\u2019s Telling Us to Put Glue on Our Pizza<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Kylie Robison | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201cThis is only one of many errors cropping up within the new function that Google rolled out broadly this month. It additionally claims that former US President James Madison graduated from the College of Wisconsin\u00a0not as soon as however 21 occasions,\u00a0{that a} canine has performed within the NBA, NFL, and NHL, and that\u00a0Batman is a cop. \u2026<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Look, Google didn\u2019t promise this may be excellent, and it even slaps a \u2018Generative AI is experimental\u2019 label on the backside of the AI solutions. However it\u2019s clear these instruments aren\u2019t able to precisely present data at scale.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/medical\/back-pain-gene-therapy-spinal-disc\/\"><strong>Gene Therapy Repairs Spinal Discs to Relieve Back Pain<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Michael Irving | New Atlas<br \/><\/em>\u201cAssessed over 12 weeks, injured mice that acquired the gene remedy had been discovered to have a bunch of enhancements in comparison with injured mice given plain saline injections. The tissue within the discs was discovered to provide extra proteins that strengthen the tissue, and assist it maintain water. That helped them plump again up and act extra like cushions once more, bettering the backbone\u2019s vary of movement, load bearing and suppleness. When you can\u2019t precisely ask mice how a lot ache they\u2019re feeling, behavioral assessments urged signs had been decreased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2024\/05\/on-self-driving-waymo-is-playing-chess-while-tesla-plays-checkers\/\"><strong>On Self-Driving, Waymo Is Playing Chess While Tesla Plays Checkers<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Timothy B. Lee | Ars Technica<br \/><\/em>\u201cMany Tesla followers see [limitations like remote operators and avoiding freeways] as indicators that Waymo is headed for a technological lifeless finish. \u2026However I predict that when Tesla begins its driverless transition, it can understand that security requires a Waymo-style incremental rollout. So Tesla hasn\u2019t discovered a unique, higher method to carry driverless expertise to market. Waymo is simply thus far forward that it\u2019s coping with challenges Tesla hasn\u2019t even began desirous about. Waymo is enjoying chess whereas Tesla continues to be enjoying checkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/warp-drive-breakthrough-physics-star-trek\/\"><strong>A Warp Drive Breakthrough Inches a Tiny Bit Closer to\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Paul Sutter | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201cA staff of physicists has found that it\u2019s potential to construct an actual, precise,\u00a0bodily warp drive\u00a0and never break any identified guidelines of\u00a0physics. One caveat: The vessel doing the warping can\u2019t exceed the velocity of sunshine, so that you\u2019re not going to get anyplace fascinating anytime quickly. However this analysis nonetheless represents an vital advance in our understanding of\u00a0gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>DIGITAL MEDIA<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/05\/fatal-flaw-publishers-making-openai-deals\/678477\/\"><strong>Media Companies Are Making a Huge Mistake With AI<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Jessica Lessin | The Atlantic<br \/><\/em>\u201cFor so long as I&#8217;ve reported on web firms, I&#8217;ve watched information leaders attempt to bend their companies to the need of Apple, Google, Meta, and extra. Chasing tech\u2019s distribution and money, information corporations strike offers to attempt to experience out the following digital wave. They make concessions to platforms that try and take all the viewers (and belief) that nice journalism attracts, with out ever having to do the sophisticated and costly work of the journalism itself. And it by no means, ever works as deliberate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24161231\/chatgpt-generative-ai-explained\"><strong>ChatGPT, Explained<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Sheena Vasani | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201cSome writers have declared that\u00a0the debut\u00a0of ChatGPT on November thirtieth, 2022, marked the start of a brand new chapter in historical past akin to the\u00a0Enlightenment\u00a0and the\u00a0Industrial Revolution.\u00a0Others have been extra skeptical, questioning if that is simply one other overhyped tech, like\u00a0blockchain\u00a0or the\u00a0metaverse. What historical past will name ChatGPT stays to be seen, however right here\u2019s one factor I do know for positive: no one has shut up about it since. \u2026That\u2019s why we determined to throw collectively this explainer so we are able to lower by all of the BS collectively. You prepared?\u00a0Let\u2019s start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/05\/ai-voice-assistants-scarlett-johansson-weird\/678462\/\"><strong>OpenAI Should Have Gone Way Beyond Scarlett Johansson<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Ross Andersen | The Atlantic<br \/><\/em>\u201cNow that we are able to truly discuss with a pc, we must be dreaming up wholly new methods to do it. Let\u2019s hope that somebody\u2014inside or exterior of OpenAI\u2014begins giving us a way of what these methods is perhaps. The weirder, the higher. They could not even be modeled after current human relationships. They could tackle fully totally different varieties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/nvidias-business-is-booming-heres-what-could-slow-it-down-fd5ffa14\"><strong>Nvidia\u2019s Business Is Booming. Here\u2019s What Could Slow It Down.<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Asa Fitch | The Wall Road Journal<br \/><\/em>\u201cNvidia\u00a0is using excessive after one other\u00a0quarter of blockbuster gross sales and earnings, at the same time as threats are rising that would weaken the corporate\u2019s place on the heart of the artificial-intelligence increase. Rivals and key clients want to produce chips that may shut the hole with Nvidia\u2019s merchandise. In the meantime, the AI market, which has confirmed difficult for some startups, is shifting in ways in which may diminish the recognition of Nvidia\u2019s chips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@ninjason?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Jason Leung<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-close-up-of-a-bunch-of-yellow-balls-jvOQZJ_d1Xk?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/05\/25\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-may-25\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of ComputingWill Knight | Wired\u201cWhen ChatGPT was launched in November 2023, it may solely be accessed by the cloud as a result of the mannequin behind it was downright monumental. In the present day I&#8217;m working a equally succesful AI program on a Macbook Air, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}