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The key innovation in this new desalination technology is fluorine, a hydrophobic element that that’s long been prized for its desire to be left alone. It’s no accident that fluorine is a key ingredient in Teflon, which is used on non-stick pans to keep fried eggs from sticking and inside pipes to make fluids flow more efficiently. At the nanoscopic level, fluorine repels negatively charged ions, including the chlorine in salt (NaCl). Its electric properties also break down clumps of water molecules that can keep the liquid from flowing as freely as possible. -(IE)

-Desalination is something people need to consider with rising sea levels and changing weather patterns, like drought.

Oligoamide nanoring-based fluorous nanochannels in bilayer membranes enable ultrafast water permeation and desalination.

Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist shared his thoughts on ChatGPT.

ChatGPT has been making headlines worldwide, but not all are impressed. Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, had some harsh words for the program in an hour-and-a-half talk hosted by the Collective Forecast. This online, interactive discussion series is organized by Collective.

“In terms of underlying techniques, ChatGPT is not particularly innovative,” said LeCun on Zoom last week.

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It’s rare to hear a new invention that has this much impact potential and doesn’t really need any more work to go commercial.

These strangely-shaped twisted-toroid propellers look like a revolutionary (sorry) advance for the aviation and marine sectors. Radically quieter than traditional propellers in both air and water, they’re also showing some huge efficiency gains.

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Breakthrough Google DeepMind Adaptive AI agents, known as AdA, are able to learning millions of tasks within minutes each with reinforcement learning, matching the speed and ability of a skilled human gamer, all without using training data. A New InstructPix2Pix text to image artificial intelligence can do photo editing with simple text instructions. A new dataset called OMMO enables novel view synthesis, surface reconstruction, and multi-modal NeRF.

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Objects are also magnetic and can conduct electricity Researchers reveal person-shaped robot that can turn themselves into liquid Researchers have created humanoid, miniature robots that can shapeshift and turn into liquid. The breakthrough could allow for the creation of more robots that can shift between liquid and solid, allowing them to be used in a variety of situations.

Mobile phone batteries with a lifetime up to three times longer than today’s technology could be a reality thanks to an innovation led by engineers at RMIT University.

Rather than disposing of batteries after two or three years, we could have recyclable batteries that last for up to nine years, the team says, by using high-frequency sound waves to remove rust that inhibits battery performance.

The research is published in Nature Communications.

The public perceives OpenAI’s ChatGPT as revolutionary, but the same techniques are being used and the same kind of work is going on at many research labs, says the deep learning pioneer.

To be clear: I’m not criticizing OpenAI’s work nor their claims.

I’m trying to correct a *perception* by the public & the media who see chatGPT as this incredibly new, innovative, & unique technological breakthrough that is far ahead of everyone else.

It’s just not.

Bonn University.

These specialized cells, once thought to merely insulate nerve fibers or maintain proper operating conditions for neurons, are now believed to play a significant role when it comes to understanding our surroundings. This breakthrough discovery was reported in the journal Nature Communications.