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Mar 11, 2023

Google engineers had built ChatGPT-like AI years ago but executives blocked it

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Google executives had blocked the AI chatbot from public testing, citing concerns that it did not meet company standards.

Years ago, Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer, engineers at Google, had developed a ChatGPT-like conversational chatbot that could talk about philosophy and TV shows and make pun jokes.

Conversational chatbots are the shiny new thing in the tech industry, with companies looking to incorporate them across their products.

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Mar 11, 2023

Scientists Create “Reddmatter” — Game-Changing Room-Temperature Superconductor

Posted by in category: materials

Researchers have not only raised the temperature, but also lowered the pressure required to achieve superconductivity. In a historic achievement, University of Rochester researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pressure low enough for practical applications.

Mar 11, 2023

‘World’s largest electrolyzer’ has the shape of a multi-bit screwdriver

Posted by in categories: chemistry, engineering

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HydrogenPro’s electrolyzer will be assembled and installed in the coming weeks, according to a press release published by Chemical Engineering on Wednesday.

Mar 11, 2023

Microsoft to unveil GPT-4 next week ability to create AI-generated videos

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Topics Microsoft | artifical intelligence.

Andreas Braun, Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Germany, recently confirmed that GPT-4 will be unveiled next week at an event called — AI in Focus — Digital Kickoff, reports Windows Central. “We will introduce GPT-4 next week, where we have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities — for example, videos,” Braun was quoted as saying.

Mar 11, 2023

Could an Explosive Gravity Wave Ever Kill Us All? | Unveiled

Posted by in categories: energy, quantum physics, space

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Mar 11, 2023

OpenAI’s Sam Altman is the latest tech entrepreneur making a play to extend the human lifespan. Here are 15 of the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs trying to crack the code of living forever

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI

Insider rounded up 15 of the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs searching for a solution to the predicament of mortality.

Mar 11, 2023

I believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain

Posted by in categories: mathematics, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Finally, a rational exploration of what ChatGPT actually knows and what that means.


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Mar 11, 2023

AT&T data breach compromises roughly nine million accounts, here’s what you need to know

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

It looks like AT&T experienced a data breach, leaving roughly 9 million customers data exposed. The data breach didn’t come directly from the wireless carrier, but occurred with one of its vendors.

The news originates from the AT&T forums, where customers were curious about an email that has apparently been going out to affected customers since last week. The email discusses the breach the wireless carrier experienced, sharing that it occurred with one of its vendor’s systems, which gave access to the wireless carrier’s “Customer Proprietary Network Information” (CPNI) system.

Mar 11, 2023

Scientists identify pattern of brain activation that differentiates drug users from non-users

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

A series of three neuroimaging studies identified a pattern of neural activation involving specific brain regions that differentiates drug users from non-users with 82% accuracy. Researchers named the pattern the Neurobiological Craving Signature (NCS). Their findings have been published in Nature Neuroscience.

Craving is a strong desire to use drugs or eat. It has long been considered a key factor driving substance abuse and overeating. It is one of the criteria used for diagnosing substance use disorders. Craving is often induced by exposure to certain stimuli. In the case of overeating, these include the smell or sight of food. In the case of drugs, craving can be induced by one being in places or situations he/she associates with taking drugs or being offered drugs. This is called cue-induced craving.

Earlier studies of craving have successfully relied on self-reported craving, but recent research has focused on discovering its biological basis. Human neuroimaging studies have identified neural circuits related to the risk of substance abuse. Some brain circuits have been found to be involved in different substance use disorders and risky behaviors. These include specific parts of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), ventral striatal/nucleus accumbens (VS/NAc) and insula regions of the brain. These regions also appear to play a role in weight gain and obesity.

Mar 11, 2023

DARPA created a hypersonic aircraft capable of Mach 20 speeds

Posted by in category: military

While the world’s major powers are locked in an arms race to develop the best and most advanced hypersonic weapons, missiles capable of flying faster than Mach 5 and are thus able to defeat missile defense systems and radars, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been flying at these speeds for more than a decade.

The history of hypersonics go back much, much further than the 21st century. Nazi Germany’s V-2 rockets were able to reach speeds of Mach 4.3 after takeoff, but when they struck targets, they were often exceeding Mach 5. By 1949, the United States had adopted German rocket technology, which allowed rockets to exceed Mach 5 on takeoff for the first time.

Through this development, the U.S. was able to build its intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal, all of which were capable of speeds above Mach 5 upon reentry. It wasn’t until 1980 that hypersonic research began to focus on glide maneuvering and carrying people. This led to the creation of the X-15 rocket plane, a manned craft that could reach those speeds but was launched from a B-52 “mother ship.” An X-15 holds the official world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a crewed, powered aircraft when it reached Mach 6.7 in 1967.