{"id":7478,"date":"2024-01-21T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T09:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2024-01-21T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T09:53:38","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-january-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=7478","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/18\/24042354\/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview\"><strong>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s New Goal Is Creating Artificial General Intelligence<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Alex Heath | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201cFueling the generative AI craze is a perception that the tech business is on a path to reaching superhuman, god-like intelligence. OpenAI\u2019s said mission is to create this synthetic common intelligence, or AGI. Demis Hassabis, the chief of Google\u2019s AI efforts,\u00a0has the identical purpose. Now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is coming into the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2024\/01\/16\/1086647\/excited-about-household-robots\/\"><strong>Why Everyone\u2019s Excited About Household Robots Again<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Melissa Heikkil\u00e4<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">archive web page<\/span> | MIT Know-how Evaluate<br \/><\/em>\u201cRobotics 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&#8217;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/global-emissions-could-peak-sooner-than-you-think\/\"><strong>Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Hannah Ritchie | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201cEach November, the International Carbon Mission publishes the yr\u2019s international CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions. It\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00136-2\"><strong>Meet ReTro, the First Cloned Rhesus Monkey to Reach Adulthood<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Miryam Naddaf | Nature Journal<br \/><\/em>\u201cFor the primary time, a cloned rhesus monkey (<i>Macaca mulatta<\/i>) has lived into maturity\u2014surviving for greater than two years up to now. The feat, described [this week] in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, 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 (<i>Macaca fascicularis<\/i>), the primary primates to be cloned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24031687\/nvidia-ai-npcs-convai-ces-2023\"><strong>I Literally Spoke With Nvidia\u2019s AI-Powered Video Game NPCs<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Sean Hollister | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201cWhat when you might simply\u2026 communicate\u2026to 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\u00a0a reasonably unconvincing canned demo of such a system\u2014however this January, I obtained to strive a totally interactive model for myself at CES 2024. I walked away satisfied we\u2019ll inevitably see one thing like this in future video games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2413260-what-does-ukraines-million-drone-army-mean-for-the-future-of-war\/\"><strong>What Does Ukraine\u2019s Million-Drone Army Mean for the Future of War?<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>David Hambling | New Scientist<br \/><\/em>\u201cUkraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelensky has promised that in 2024 the nation\u2019s 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\u2014a transition to a army with extra drones than troopers. What does that imply for the way forward for battle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/japan-reaches-the-moon-but-the-fate-of-its-precision-lander-is-uncertain\/\"><strong>Japan Reaches the Moon, but the Fate of Its Precision Lander Is Uncertain<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Jonathan O\u2019Callaghan | Scientific American<br \/><\/em>\u201c\u2026JAXA officers revealed that though SLIM is in touch with mission controllers and precisely responding to instructions, the lander\u2019s 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\u2014however the spacecraft could reawaken if its solar energy provide could be restored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2411539-nasa-unveils-x-59-plane-to-test-supersonic-flight-over-us-cities\/\"><strong>NASA Unveils X-59 Plane to Test Supersonic Flight Over US Cities<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Matthew Sparkes | New Scientist<br \/><\/em>\u201c\u2018Concorde\u2019s 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\u2019s automotive door down the road being closed,\u2019 says Bahm. \u2018We predict that it\u2019ll extra mix into the background of on a regular basis life than the Concorde did.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/01\/17\/nasas-robotic-self-assembling-structures-could-be-the-next-phase-of-space-construction\/\"><strong>NASA\u2019s Robotic, Self-Assembling Structures Could Be the Next Phase of Space Construction<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch<br \/><\/em>\u201cDangerous 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. \u2026The fundamental concept of the self-building construction is in a intelligent synergy between the constructing materials\u2014cuboctahedral frames they name voxels\u2014and the 2 kinds of robots that assemble them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@zengyili?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">ZENG YILI<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-close-up-of-a-building-with-a-blue-sky-in-the-background-_L_7Ou9OSeM?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@dynamicwang?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\"\/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/01\/20\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-january-20\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s New Goal Is Creating Artificial General IntelligenceAlex Heath | The Verge\u201cFueling the generative AI craze is a perception that the tech business is on a path to reaching superhuman, god-like intelligence. OpenAI\u2019s said mission is to create this synthetic common intelligence, or AGI. Demis Hassabis, the chief of Google\u2019s AI efforts,\u00a0has the identical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,1807,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-january","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","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=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}