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Just a concept at the moment, but I can see their being demand for this thing
To clarify, according to the paper, while intentionally assuming a human persona, it managed to fool most psychology undergraduates, not just random people.
EspiritdescaliOPMAto Futurology•Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass productionEnglish9·1 个月前Tiny wattage, but still useful, especially if you can group these into larger battery packs
EspiritdescaliOPMAto Futurology•TI introduces the world's smallest microcontroller, enabling innovation in the tiniest of applicationsEnglish4·2 个月前Only 1.38mm2, they could fit this tiny thing anywhere. Medical devices spring to mind.
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-gridsEnglish3·2 个月前One advantage of having no infrastructure is you can leapfrog old technologies. We’ve seen this with countries that had no copper telephone wires everywhere, they moved straight to cellular technology.
EspiritdescaliOPMAto Futurology•Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build 'Freedom Cities' Run by CorporationsEnglish27·2 个月前The word of the day is “technofeudalism”
EspiritdescaliOPMAto Futurology•Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage – And It’s a Game-ChangerEnglish1·2 个月前I got that reference!
EspiritdescaliOPMAto Futurology•Chinese breakthrough engine seeks to reduce flight times to half an hourEnglish2·2 个月前We already have military planes that go pretty close to that, and missiles go at Mach 20 so we have the technology
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•Gibber Link is a language protocol for AI Agents making phone calls to each other.English2·2 个月前Reminds me of R2D2
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•AI belonging to Anthropic, who's CEO penned the optimistic 'Machines of Loving Grace', just automated away 40% of software engineering work on a leading freelancer platform.English3·2 个月前Reminds me of the grains of rice on a chessboard doubling each square. The end result suprised the king and the time horizons of these things is going to suprise humanity.
EspiritdescaliOPMAto Futurology•Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientistEnglish1·3 个月前These agents use automated feedback to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses, resulting in a self-improving cycle of increasingly high-quality and novel outputs.
So they are going to point this thing at the AI codebase right? Right?
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,’ scientists warnEnglish35·3 个月前It’s a race to see what kills us first, Climate Change or AI.
My bet is on AI, mostly because the time horizon is a bit closer
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•Figure Robotics & Amazon talk about replacing 100,000s of human jobs with robots.English2·3 个月前There is a tsunami coming and not many people can see it. The worse part, is the people in charge are not the ones to roll out UBI. In fact, they are more likely to remove benefits.
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•Global temperatures rose 0.4°C in the last 2 years - much more than expected - and eliminating sulphur from maritime fuels may account for some of it.English1·3 个月前Prof Eliot Jacobson has the decadal increase at 0.32°C/Decade, which given we are at 1.5°C now means ~2.5°C around 2050 and ~4°C by 2100
However, he also thinks the trend isn’t linear and is quadratic, meaning an increasing rate of change, so that 4°C could be low
https://climatecasino.net/2025/01/betting-on-the-end-of-the-world-2025-edition/
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•Researchers confirm an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining lifeEnglish4·3 个月前We’ve found oxygen, but hard to say it’s life
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2013/05/aa21014-12.pdf
EspiritdescaliMAto Futurology•Global temperatures rose 0.4°C in the last 2 years - much more than expected - and eliminating sulphur from maritime fuels may account for some of it.English8·3 个月前We’ve been geoengineering for some time without knowing it. That geoengineering project has masked atmospheric heating. Now we have to pay the piper
EspiritdescaliOPMAto Futurology•‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wallEnglish12·3 个月前The video is hilarious. But soon these scammers will be replaced by AI, then we’ll have AI’s trying to scam AI’s…
How many local TPU’s do you need to run these latest models locally?
“So long and thanks for all the fish”