Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 66
Jun 29, 2024
How the CIA is using generative AI — now and into the future
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
From human intelligence collection to information gathered in the open, the CIA is leveraging generative artificial intelligence for a wide swath of its intelligence-gathering mission set today, and plans to continue to expand upon that into the future, according to the agency’s AI lead.
The CIA has been using AI for things like content triage and “things in the human language technology space — translation, transcription — all the types of processing that need to happen in order to help our analysts go through that data very quickly” as far back as 2012, when the agency hired its first data scientists, Lakshmi Raman, the CIA’s director of AI, said during an on-stage keynote interview at the Amazon Web Services Summit on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
On top of that, AI — particularly generative AI in recent years — has been an important tool for the CIA’s mission to triage open-source intelligence collection, Raman said.
Jun 29, 2024
ChatGPT could be smarter than your professor in the next 2 years
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
“If you look at the trajectory of improvement, GPT-3 was maybe toddler level intelligence, systems like GPT-4 are smart high schooler intelligence and in the next couple of years we’re looking at PhD level intelligence for specific tasks,” she said during a talk at Dartmouth.
Some took this to suggest we’d be waiting two years for GPT-5 but looking at other OpenAI revelations, such as a graph showing ‘GPT-Next’ this year and ‘future models’ going forward and CEO Sam Altman refusing to mention GPT-5 in recent interviews — I’m not convinced.
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Jun 29, 2024
NVIDIA Gears Up For $50 Trillion “AI Automation” Market, CEO Says That Blackwell Will Be The “Most Successful” Product In Firm’s History
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang believes that the AI frenzy will automate a whopping $50 trillion worth of companies, stating that Blackwell will play a dominant role.
NVIDIA Isn’t Taking The Foot of The AI Accelerator Pedal Any Time Soon, Plans To Take Blackwell’s Adoption To a Whole New Level
NVIDIA has undoubtedly managed to pick up a market that will progress rapidly in the future. Not only is every big tech firm, whether Microsoft or Amazon, forced into the race of “AI automation,” but the demand for adequate computing power is rising massively.
Jun 28, 2024
Epic Expansion: The Case for Inflationary Cosmology
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, futurism
For decades, inflation has been the dominant cosmological scenario, but recently the theory has been subject to competition and critique. Two renowned pioneers of inflation — Alan Guth and Andrei Linde — join Brian Greene to make their strongest case for the inflationary theory.
This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
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Jun 28, 2024
This machine creates artificial vision for the blind
Posted by Claudio Soprano in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Second Sight’s Orion system bypasses the eyes to bring artificial vision directly to the brain. Working prototypes are being tested right now in six blind individuals.
#WhatTheFuture #ArtificialVision #MedicalTech.
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Jun 28, 2024
Amazon Just Quietly Announced a Big Change to Its Website
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: futurism
The company will allow sellers to ship directly to customers from China in an effort to compete with Shein and Temu.
Jun 27, 2024
Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group
Posted by Michael Taylor in category: futurism
Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of Morocco and are being referred to by scientists as “Pompeii” trilobites due to their remarkable preservation in ash.
The paper, “Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites,” was published in the journal, Science.
Jun 27, 2024
Understanding ADHD, Anxiety & Panic Attacks: Insights from Dr. Gabor Maté
Posted by Chris Smedley in category: futurism
The commercialized approach of medicating children with ADHD to conform to societal expectations is problematic, and a holistic approach that addresses family stress and meets a child’s needs is more beneficial.
Questions to inspire discussion.
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Jun 27, 2024
Experiencing without knowing? Empirical evidence for phenomenal consciousness without access
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Can one have a phenomenal experience to which one does not have access? That is, can you experience something without knowing? The dissociation between phenomenal ℗ and access (A) consciousness is widely debated. A major challenge to the supporters of this dissociation is the apparent inability to experimentally demonstrate that P-without-A consciousness exists; once participants report having a P-experience, they already have access to it. Thus, all previous empirical support for this dissociation is indirect. Here, using a novel paradigm, we create a situation where participants (Experiment 1, N = 40) lack online access to the stimulus yet are nevertheless able to retrospectively form judgements on its phenomenal, qualitative aspects. We further show that their performance cannot be fully explained by unconscious processing or by a response to stimulus offset (Experiment 2, N = 40). This suggests that P and A consciousness are not only conceptually distinct, but might also be teased apart empirically. STATEMENT OF RELEVANCE: A critical question in the scientific quest towards solving the problem of consciousness focuses on the ability to isolate conscious experiences at their purity, without any accompanying cognitive processes. This challenge has been augmented by a highly influential — yet controversial — dissociation suggested by the philosopher Ned Block between Phenomenal consciousness, or the “what it is like” to have an experience, and Access consciousness, indexing the ability to report that one has that experience. Critically, these two types of consciousness most typically go together, making it highly difficult — if not impossible — to isolate Phenomenal consciousness. Our work shows that the dissociation between phenomenal and access consciousness is not merely conceptual, but can also be empirically demonstrated. It further opens the gate to future studies pinpointing the neural correlates of the two types of consciousness.
Keywords: Access consciousness; Cognition; Consciousness; Phenomenal consciousness; Qualia; Unconscious processing.
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