Meta's open source Llama 3 is already catching up to OpenAI
Will Knight | Wired
“OpenAI changed the world with ChatGPT, sparking a wave of AI investment and attracting more than 2 million developers to its cloud APIs. But once the open source model proves competitive, developers and entrepreneurs Homes may decide to stop paying for access to OpenAI or Google's latest models and instead use Llama 3 or one of the increasingly powerful open source models that are emerging. yeah.”
Personalized mRNA vaccine against melanoma goes into clinical trials, offering 'real hope' for cancer cure
andrew gregory guardian
“Experts are testing a new jab that is tailored to each patient and tells the patient's body to hunt down cancer cells to prevent the disease from coming back. Phase 2 trials show the vaccine is black The final phase 3 trial has now begun and is being led by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). Dr Heather Shaw, the trial's national co-ordinating investigator, said the jab had the potential to cure melanoma patients and was also being tested for other cancers including lung, bladder and kidney.
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An AI startup created a surreal deepfake of me.It's so good it's scary
Melissa Heikkila | MIT Technology Review
“Until now, AI-generated videos of people tended to contain stiffness, glitches, and other unnatural elements that were easy to distinguish from reality. Although these videos are very close to the real thing, Because they don't look exactly alike, they can make people feel frustrated, anxious, and uncomfortable, a phenomenon commonly known as the uncanny valley. I am claiming that I will get out.”
Fusion experiments overcome two major operational hurdles
matthew sparks new scientist
“Fusion reactions have overcome two important barriers to operating in the 'sweet spot' needed for optimal power generation: increasing plasma density and keeping the denser plasma confined.” . This milestone marks another stepping stone to fusion power, although commercial reactors are likely still years away. ”
Daniel Dennett: “Why civilization is more fragile than we think.”
Tom Chatfield | BBC
“[Dennett’s] This warning was not about some sort of superintelligence takeover, but rather about a threat he believed could be an existential threat to civilization, rooted in the vulnerabilities of human nature. “If we turn this amazing technology that we have for knowledge into a weapon of disinformation, we're in deep trouble,” he told me. why? “Because we no longer know what we know, we no longer know who to believe, we no longer know whether we are being informed or misinformed. We can either become paranoid and extremely skeptical, or we can just become apathetic and inactive, both of which are very dangerous paths. ”
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California spent 9.25 hours using only renewable energy
Adele Peters | Fast Company
“Last Saturday, the entire state ran on 100% clean electricity for more than nine hours while 39 million Californians went about their daily lives by showering, doing laundry, and charging their electric vehicles. The same thing happened on Sunday, when the state was powered at least partially by solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal and battery storage for more than eight hours. It's been nine days in a row that we've had full power on the grid for the past six and a half weeks, sometimes just for 15 minutes at a time. It often continues.”
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The AI hype is dying down. Can AI companies find a way to make a profit?
Gerrit de Vink | Washington Post
“Some once-promising startups have fallen by the wayside, and the series of flashy products announced by the biggest names in the AI race, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta, are still disrupting the way people work and communicate with each other. While money continues to pour into AI, few companies are profiting from the technology, and it remains prohibitively expensive for technology executives and engineers to build and operate. Financial analysts say the road to adoption and business success remains long, winding and full of obstacles.
Apple releases eight miniature AI language models for on-device use
Benji Edwards | Ars Technica
“In the world of AI, what we call 'small language models' have recently become popular because they can run on local devices without the need for data center-grade computers in the cloud.”On Wednesday, Apple announced that on smartphones We announced a set of small AI language models available from source called OpenELM that are small enough to run directly, but for now they are primarily proof-of-concept research models, but on-device AI that Apple will offer in the future. It can be the basis of
If spaceships are real, we'll need massive cargo carriers on the Moon and Mars.
Eric Berger | Ars Technica
“Unloading a large amount of cargo on the moon may seem like a ridiculous concept. During the Apollo program, mass limits were so strict that the lunar module could carry two astronauts, spacesuits, In contrast, Starship was designed to carry more than 100 tons to the lunar surface in a single mission. This is an incredible amount of cargo in the history of spaceflight, but it's the future. [Jaret] That’s what Matthews is aiming for.”
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