{"id":8210,"date":"2024-02-17T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2024-02-17T22:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T22:58:02","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-february-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=8210","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2024\/02\/15\/1088401\/openai-amazing-new-generative-ai-video-model-sora\/\"><strong>OpenAI Teases an Amazing New Generative Video Model Called Sora<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Expertise Evaluate<br \/><\/em>\u201cOpenAI has constructed a hanging new generative video mannequin known as Sora that may take a brief textual content description and switch it into an in depth, high-definition movie clip as much as a minute lengthy. \u2026The pattern movies from OpenAI\u2019s Sora are high-definition and filled with element. OpenAI additionally says it will possibly generate movies as much as a minute lengthy. One video of a Tokyo avenue scene exhibits that Sora has discovered how objects match collectively in 3D: the digicam swoops into the scene to observe a pair as they stroll previous a row of retailers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/google-deepmind-gemini-pro-ai-upgrade\/\"><strong>Google\u2019s Flagship AI Model Gets a Mighty Fast Upgrade<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Will Knight | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201cGoogle says Gemini Professional 1.5 can ingest and make sense of an hour of video, 11 hours of audio, 700,000 phrases, or 30,000 traces of code directly\u2014a number of instances greater than different AI fashions, together with\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4, which powers\u00a0ChatGPT. \u2026Gemini Professional 1.5 can also be extra succesful\u2014a minimum of for its measurement\u2014as measured by the mannequin\u2019s rating on a number of standard benchmarks. The brand new mannequin exploits a method beforehand invented by Google researchers to squeeze out extra efficiency with out requiring extra computing energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/13\/world\/mira-robot-first-surgery-in-space-scn\/index.html\"><strong>Surgery in Space: Tiny Remotely Operated Robot Completes First Simulated Procedure at the Space Station<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher | CNN<br \/><\/em>\u201cThe robotic, generally known as spaceMIRA\u2014which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant\u2014carried out a number of operations on simulated tissue on the orbiting laboratory whereas remotely operated by surgeons from roughly 250 miles (400 kilometers) under in Lincoln, Nebraska. The milestone is a step ahead in creating know-how that would have implications not only for profitable long-term human area journey, the place surgical emergencies may occur, but additionally for establishing entry to medical care in distant areas on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2024\/02\/our-unbiased-take-on-mark-zuckerbergs-biased-apple-vision-pro-review\/\"><strong>Our Unbiased Take on Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Biased Apple Vision Pro Review<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Kyle Orland | Ars Technica<br \/><\/em>\u201cZuckerberg\u2019s Instagram-posted ideas on the Imaginative and prescient Professional can\u2019t be thought of an neutral tackle the machine\u2019s execs and cons. Nonetheless, Zuckerberg\u2019s brief evaluate included its fair proportion of truthful factors, alongside some cautious turns of phrase that obscure the Quest\u2019s relative deficiencies. To determine which is which, we thought we\u2019d contemplate every of the factors made by Zuckerberg in his evaluate. In doing so, we get an excellent viewpoint on the very totally different angles from which Meta and Apple are approaching mixed-reality headset design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/02\/artificial-intelligence-self-learning\/677484\/\"><strong>Things Get Strange When AI Starts Training Itself<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Matteo Wong | The Atlantic<br \/><\/em>\u201cOver the previous few months, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, OpenAI, and numerous educational labs have all printed analysis that makes use of an AI mannequin to enhance one other AI mannequin, and even itself, in lots of circumstances resulting in notable enhancements. Quite a few tech executives have heralded this method because the know-how\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/medical\/incurable-neurodegenerative-disorders-treatment-single-dose-gene-therapy\/\"><strong>Single-Dose Gene Therapy May Stop Deadly Brain Disorders in Their Tracks<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Paul McClure | New Atlas<br \/><\/em>\u201cResearchers have developed a single-dose genetic remedy that may clear protein blockages that trigger motor neurone illness, additionally known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal dementia, two incurable neurodegenerative illnesses that finally result in demise. \u2026The researchers discovered that, in mice, a single dose of CTx1000 focused solely the \u2018unhealthy\u2019 [version of the protein] TDP-43, leaving the wholesome model of it alone. Not solely was it secure, it was efficient even when signs had been current on the time of remedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>SCIENCE FICTION<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24066233\/her-ai-film-spike-jonze-joaquin-phoenix-scarlett-johansson\"><b>Spike Jonze\u2019s Her Holds Up a Decade Later<\/b><\/a><br \/><em>Sheon Han | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201cSpike Jonze\u2019s sci-fi love story remains to be a greater depiction of AI than lots of its contemporaries. \u2026Upon rewatching it, I observed that this pre-AlphaGo movie holds up superbly and nonetheless provides a wealth of perception. It additionally doesn\u2019t draw back from the murky and inevitably sophisticated emotions we\u2019ll have towards AI, and Jonze first expressed these over a decade in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/openai-chatgpt-wants-to-eat-google-search-lunch-1851261086\"><strong>OpenAI Wants to Eat Google Search\u2019s Lunch<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Maxwell Zeff | Gizmodo<br \/><\/em>\u201cOpenAI\u00a0is reportedly creating a search app that might instantly compete with Google Search, in accordance with\u00a0The Data\u00a0on Wednesday. The AI search engine might be a brand new function for\u00a0ChatGPT, or a probably separate app altogether. Microsoft Bing would allegedly energy the service from Sam Altman, which might be\u00a0essentially the most severe risk Google Search has ever confronted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/mars-eclipses-phobos-deimos-perseverance-nasa-1851252098\"><strong>Here\u2019s What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like on Mars<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Isaac Schultz | Gizmodo<br \/><\/em>\u201cUsually, the Perseverance rover is trying down, scouring the Martian terrain for rocks that will reveal features of the planet\u2019s historical previous. However during the last a number of weeks, the intrepid robotic regarded up and caught <em>two<\/em> outstanding views: photo voltaic eclipses on the Purple Planet, because the moon Phobos and Deimos handed in entrance of the solar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@neeqolah?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Neeqolah Creative Works<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-close-up-of-a-pink-flower-on-a-blue-background-Ah8NwW9AdsY?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\/02\/17\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-february-17\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Teases an Amazing New Generative Video Model Called SoraWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Expertise Evaluate\u201cOpenAI has constructed a hanging new generative video mannequin known as Sora that may take a brief textual content description and switch it into an in depth, high-definition movie clip as much as a minute lengthy. \u2026The pattern movies from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,7337,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-february","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210","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=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}