Futurologist
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Futurologistto Autonomous Vehicles•Tesla (TSLA) rolls back 'Full Self-Driving' trial in China amid new approval rulesEnglish1·1 month agoThe article says they are using less powerful software in America than China, which is not what I would have expected for an American company.
FuturologistOPto Futurology•High Risk, No Rules: Welcome To The Era Of Geopolitical "Anomie"English3·4 months agoSomething I heard recently both surprised me, yet at the same time resonated with me. It was the view that the 21st century is being modeled in China’s image where the 20th century was modeled on America. The US thought it would make China more like it, instead America has become more like China - transactional and authoritarian in its dealings with the world.
FuturologistOPto Futurology•Hugging Face is open-sourcing the improved reasoning ability of OpenAI’s o1 model, that the latter expects to make money off.English2·5 months agoParadoxically their approach is to use less training data. HF are saying they have reverse engineered some of the capabilities of OpenAI’s o1 model, by using an approach called ‘Test-time compute scaling’ which OpenAI have acknowledged using, but not disclosed exactly how.
https://the-decoder.com/study-shows-test-time-compute-scaling-is-a-path-to-better-ai-systems/
FuturologistOPto Futurology•Hugging Face is open-sourcing the improved reasoning ability of OpenAI’s o1 model, that the latter expects to make money off.English20·5 months agoJust as the investor funded AI companies think they have the shallowest of moats, and a chance to build revenue, no - once again Open Source is snapping at their heels. Someone is going to blink first in this race, and I suspect it will be the investor funded AI companies.
Futurologistto Futurology•DeepMind's Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games | TechCrunchEnglish1·5 months agoThe video game industry is a huge employer. It makes you wonder how much longer we will be saying that.
AGI, genetic editing of humans for starters. Advanced robotics, the discovery of alien life. Maybe another new paradigm in our understanding of the science and the universe on a par with Einstein’s?
Futurologistto Futurology•Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026English4·7 months agoThey are not going up in China.
Futurologistto Autonomous Vehicles•GM is working on an eyes-off, hands-off driving systemEnglish21·7 months agoAt least all the China EV tariffs will take some of the pressure off them. They can continue to trundle on being second-rate.
FuturologistOPto Futurology•China scientists’ low-cost solid-state battery could be EV industry breakthrough. USTC research team breaks cost barrier to next-generation rechargeable lithium batteries, according to paper.English2·10 months agoHere’s the paper citied - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202407892
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FuturologistOPto Futurology•Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI- Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids contentEnglish44·1 year agoThe problem is feeding them crap will keep them low IQ. Most parents want the highest quality educational content instead.
Futurologistto Futurology•Food delivery robot crashes into car, flees scene of accidentEnglish31·1 year agowith the safety flag happily waving…fled the scene.
Anthropomorphising much? Its like saying a toaster that broke down turned on you in a hissy fit.
Futurologistto Futurology•Sam Altman’s Prediction: The Rise of a Billion-Dollar Solo EnterpriseEnglish4·1 year agoThis idea seems economically illiterate. In a world where humans don’t earn money, how do we have a stock market supporting these valuations?
FuturologistOPto Futurology•Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing—Even in the Human Body: For the first time, researchers have used sound waves to 3-D print an object from a distance—even with a wall in the way.English101·1 year agoMaybe I’m paranoid, but why does my mind straight away go to all the nefarious ways this could be used. Creative criminals and intelligence agencies could find many uses for this technology when it matures.
FuturologistOPto Futurology•Biohybrid microrobots could remove micro- and nano-plastics from aquatic environmentsEnglish8·1 year agoThey are made from a biological substrate with metal magnetic components. It means they are highly controllable in water tanks via magnetic fields. They won’t be out in the wild.
FuturologistOPto Futurology•OpenAI has revised its core values to make the focus on developing AGI its first priority.English31·2 years agoI think we’re going to have to pit AIs against one another in another web of complexity in order to reach AGI.
I don’t know if its going to be the route to AGI, but what you are describing is already happening.
There’s Microsoft’s AutoGen framework & OpenAI next month say they too will have AI Agents for Chat-GPT
FuturologistOPto Futurology•OpenAI has revised its core values to make the focus on developing AGI its first priority.English92·2 years agoJust AI. The distinction being that an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is a theoretical superintelligence capable of any intellectual task, including coding to improve itself.
FuturologistOPto Futurology•Agility Robotics has opened a factory in Oregon to build 10,000 of its 'Digit' humanoid robots a year.English61·2 years agoHere’s a video showing this model of robot in action.
It will be interesting to see what capabilities these have, and how trainable they will be. They look like they can do simple warehouse work, but will they be much more capable than that?
FuturologistOPto Futurology•US novelist Michael Chabon and several other writers are the latest to file a proposed class action accusing OpenAI of copyright infringementEnglish119·2 years agoAny human work of art is made by an artist who is synthesizing other’s past work they’ve absorbed. If I write a murder-mystery crime novel set in 1930s England, it would be hard to avoid some influence of Agatha Christie’s. Does it mean I’m stealing from her?
There’s a separate issue of AI taking jobs, which is very real, but will probably need something like Basic Income to deal with on a society-wide level.
Large educational improvements have been demonstrated in Africa with AI too. What seems to be happening is that benefits students gain from one-on-one tutoring, happen with AI which effectively functions as the same thing.