{"id":7652,"date":"2024-01-27T22:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2024-01-27T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:11:01","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-january-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=7652","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122\/\"><strong>New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Anil Ananthaswamy | Quanta<br \/><\/em>\u201cSynthetic intelligence appears extra highly effective than ever, with chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT able to producing uncannily humanlike textual content. However for all their abilities, these bots nonetheless go away researchers questioning: Do such fashions truly perceive what they&#8217;re saying? \u2018Clearly, some individuals imagine they do,\u2019 mentioned the AI pioneer Geoff Hinton in a latest dialog with Andrew Ng, \u2018and a few individuals imagine they&#8217;re simply stochastic parrots.\u2019 \u2026New analysis could have intimations of a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fast-forward-ai-silicon-doomsday\/\"><strong>Etching AI Controls Into Silicon Could Keep Doomsday at Bay<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Will Knight | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201cEven the cleverest, most crafty synthetic intelligence algorithm will presumably should obey the legal guidelines of silicon. Its capabilities can be constrained by the {hardware} that it\u2019s working on. Some researchers are exploring methods to take advantage of that connection to restrict the potential of AI methods to trigger hurt. The thought is to encode guidelines governing the coaching and deployment of superior\u00a0algorithms instantly into the pc chips wanted to run them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/25\/24050445\/google-cloud-hugging-face-ai-developer-access\"><strong>Google\u2019s Hugging Face Deal Puts \u2018Supercomputer\u2019 Power Behind Open-Source AI<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Emilia David | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Google Cloud\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>new partnership with AI mannequin repository Hugging Face<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"> is letting builders construct, practice, and deploy AI fashions with no need to pay for a Google Cloud subscription. Now, exterior builders utilizing Hugging Face\u2019s platform can have \u2018cost-effective\u2019 entry to Google\u2019s tensor processing models (TPU) and <\/span>GPU supercomputers<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, which can embody 1000&#8217;s of Nvidia\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>in-demand<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>export-restricted H100s<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>INNOVATION<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/microsoft-closes-above-3-trillion-as-its-big-ai-play-generates-excitement-e37ea2a4\"><strong>How Microsoft Catapulted to $3 Trillion on the Back of AI<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Tom Dotan | The Wall Avenue Journal<br \/><\/em>\u201cMicrosoft on Thursday grew to become the second firm ever to finish the buying and selling day valued at greater than $3 trillion, a milestone reflecting investor optimism that one of many oldest tech corporations is main an artificial-intelligence revolution. \u2026One in all [CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s] greatest gambles lately has been partnering with an untested nonprofit startup\u2014generative AI pioneer OpenAI\u2014and rapidly folding its know-how into Microsoft\u2019s bestselling merchandise. That transfer made Microsoft a de facto chief in a burgeoning AI discipline many imagine will retool the tech trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/lisa-space-based-gravitational-wave-observatory-1851197134\"><strong>Hell Yeah, We\u2019re Getting a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Isaac Schultz | Gizmodo<br \/><\/em>\u201cTo place an interferometer in area would vastly cut back the noise encountered by ground-based devices, and lengthening the arms of the observatory would permit scientists to gather knowledge that&#8217;s imperceptible on Earth. \u2018Due to the large distance traveled by the laser alerts on LISA, and the excellent stability of its instrumentation, we&#8217;ll probe gravitational waves of decrease frequencies than is feasible on Earth, uncovering occasions of a unique scale, all the way in which again to the daybreak of time,\u2019 mentioned Nora L\u00fctzgendorf, the lead mission scientist for LISA, in an ESA launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/01\/25\/general-purpose-humanoid-robots-bill-gates-is-a-believer\/\"><strong>General Purpose Humanoid Robots? Bill Gates Is a Believer<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Brian Heater | TechCrunch<br \/><\/em>\u201cThe robotics trade loves a very good, wholesome debate. Of late, one of the intense ones facilities round humanoid robots. It\u2019s been an enormous subject for many years, after all, however the latest proliferation of startups like 1X and Determine\u2014together with initiatives from extra established corporations like Tesla\u2014have put humanoids again within the highlight. Humanoid robots can, nevertheless, now declare an enormous tech identify amongst their ranks. Invoice Gates this week issued an inventory of \u2018cutting-edge robotics startups and labs that I\u2019m enthusiastic about.\u2019 Among the many names are three corporations centered on growing humanoids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/26\/technology\/cryptocurrency-stocks-bonds-courts-move-closer-to-an-answer.html\"><strong>Is Cryptocurrency Like Stocks and Bonds? Courts Move Closer to an Answer.<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Matthew Goldstein and David Yaffe-Bellany | The New York Occasions<\/em><em><br \/><\/em>\u201cHow the courts rule might decide whether or not the crypto trade can burrow deeper into the American monetary system. If the SEC prevails, crypto supporters say, it is going to stifle the expansion of a brand new and dynamic know-how, pushing start-ups to maneuver offshore. The federal government has countered that strong oversight is critical to finish the rampant fraud that price buyers billions of {dollars} when the crypto market imploded in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/solid-state-battery-production-challenges\"><strong>Solid-State EV Batteries Now Face \u2018Production Hell\u2019<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Charles J. Murray | IEEE Spectrum<br \/><\/em>\u201cProducing battery packs that yield 800+ kilometers stays tough going. \u2026\u2019Strong-state is a good know-how,\u2019 famous Bob Galyen, proprietor of Galyen Vitality LLC\u00a0and former chief know-how officer for the Chinese language battery large,\u00a0Modern Amperex Expertise Ltd (CATL). \u2018Nevertheless it\u2019s going to be similar to lithium-ion was when it comes to the size of time it is going to take to hit the market. And lithium-ion took a very long time to get there.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24049623\/chatgpt-openai-custom-gpt-store-assistants\"><strong>I Love My GPT, But I Can\u2019t Find a Use for Anybody Else\u2019s<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Emilia David | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Although I\u2019ve come to rely upon my GPT, it\u2019s the one one I take advantage of. It\u2019s not absolutely built-in into my workflow both, as a result of GPTs stay within the ChatGPT Plus tab on my browser as an alternative of inside a program like Google Docs. And actually, if I wasn\u2019t already paying for ChatGPT Plus, I\u2019d be completely satisfied to maintain Googling different phrases. I don\u2019t suppose I\u2019ll be giving up \u2018What\u2019s One other Phrase For\u2019 any time quickly, however until one other sizzling GPT thought strikes me, I\u2019m nonetheless unsure what they\u2019re good for\u2014not less than in my job.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jonnyuiux?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Jonny Caspari<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-black-and-grey-triangular-on-a-green-background-3qeOkFg8_OY?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\/27\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-january-27\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand TextAnil Ananthaswamy | Quanta\u201cSynthetic intelligence appears extra highly effective than ever, with chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT able to producing uncannily humanlike textual content. However for all their abilities, these bots nonetheless go away researchers questioning: Do such fashions truly perceive what they&#8217;re saying? \u2018Clearly, some individuals imagine they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7654,"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-7652","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\/7652","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=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}