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Mar 11, 2023

Twerking Bees? Video Shows How These Social Insects ‘Waggle Dance,’ Proving Their Skill in Passing Down Information

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Worker bees twerk in order to inform their coworkers of a pollen target. The specific communication signal that they use is referred to as the waggle dance. These bees perform steps to show where and how far the food is.

Now, a recent study has shed light on how bees actually learn how to do the waggle dance.

Mar 11, 2023

Sam Altman gave us ChatGPT. Now he wants us to defy death

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Altman, the 37-year-old CEO of OpenAI, invested $180 million in a startup that aims to delay death by 10 years, per the MIT Technology Review.

Mar 11, 2023

Scientists Have Discovered an Enzyme That Converts Air Into Electricity

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Australian researchers have uncovered an enzyme capable of transforming air into energy. The study, which was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, shows that the enzyme utilizes small amounts of hydrogen in the air to generate an electrical current. This breakthrough paves the way for the development of devices that can literally generate energy from thin air.

The discovery was made by a team of scientists led by Dr. Rhys Grinter, Ashleigh Kropp, a Ph.D. student, and Professor Chris Greening from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne, Australia. The team produced and studied a hydrogen-consuming enzyme sourced from a bacterium commonly found in soil.

Recent work by the team has shown that many bacteria use hydrogen from the atmosphere as an energy source in nutrient-poor environments. “We’ve known for some time that bacteria can use the trace hydrogen in the air as a source of energy to help them grow and survive, including in Antarctic soils, volcanic craters, and the deep ocean,” Professor Greening said. “But we didn’t know how they did this, until now.”

Mar 11, 2023

Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones

Posted by in categories: business, information science, robotics/AI

ChatGPT might well be the most famous, and potentially valuable, algorithm of the moment, but the artificial intelligence techniques used by OpenAI to provide its smarts are neither unique nor secret. Competing projects and open-source clones may soon make ChatGPT-style bots available for anyone to copy and reuse.

Stability AI, a startup that has already developed and open-sourced advanced image-generation technology, is working on an open competitor to ChatGPT. “We are a few months from release,” says Emad Mostaque, Stability’s CEO. A number of competing startups, including Anthropic, Cohere, and AI21, are working on proprietary chatbots similar to OpenAI’s bot.

The impending flood of sophisticated chatbots will make the technology more abundant and visible to consumers, as well as more accessible to AI businesses, developers, and researchers. That could accelerate the rush to make money with AI tools that generate images, code, and text.

Mar 11, 2023

GPT-4 reveal: Microsoft won’t comment on launch rumors

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Andreas Braun, CTO of Microsoft Germany, announced the introduction of GPT-4 for next week. The models will be multimodal.

At the “AI in Focus – Digital Kickoff” event, Microsoft Germany presented business applications of large language models and talked about its cooperation with OpenAI and new Azure offerings resulting from it.

As Silke Hahn reports for Heise, Braun announced a GPT-4 reveal next week: “Next week we will present GPT-4, there we have multimodal models that offer completely different possibilities – for example videos,” Braun said.

Mar 11, 2023

Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”

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Update, March 10: A spokesperson for OpenAI has confirmed in a statement to Futurism that “OpenAI has not announced any timing for GPT-4.”

A German Microsoft executive has, for some reason, claimed that OpenAI’s next large language model (LLM) will drop imminently.

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Mar 11, 2023

Microsoft will launch ChatGPT 4 with AI videos next week

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Microsoft has just revealed its plans to launch GPT-4 next week. This will power a new version of ChatGPT that could let you create AI videos and music.

Mar 11, 2023

24/7 AI Seinfeld show is back on Twitch

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Really bad now. BUT, the future of entertainment industry:


Transphobic comments lead to Larry Feinberg’s downfall on Twitch. According to the host, the reason for Feinberg’s bias is an outdated OpenAI language model without a functioning moderation system.

Since mid-December 2022, the small media group Mismatch Media has been running one of the most unusual shows on Twitch (and that’s saying something): Using AI tools like DALL-E, GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, and more, Mismatch Media broadcasts an AI-generated show inspired by the popular U.S. sitcom “Seinfeld” every day, around the clock. “Nothing, Forever” is the name the team has given to their art project.

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Mar 11, 2023

Scientists Say The Moon Needs Its Own Lunar Time Zone. Here’s Why

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong took that first fateful step onto the Moon. The exact moment occurred just as our planet’s standard universal time hit 2.56 am. But what time was it for Neil?

There’s currently no answer to that question, but with plans in place to inhabit the Moon, that may need to change.

At a recent meeting in the Netherlands, members from space organizations around the world agreed that we need to implement a proper lunar time zone – an internationally accepted common lunar reference time that all future missions can use to communicate and navigate with ease.

Mar 11, 2023

Meet ALAN, a robot that requires minimal human supervision

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created ALAN, an autonomous robot, meaning that it can perceive its environment, make decisions based on what it perceives, and can possibly work for extended periods of time. It has been programmed in such a way that it can recognize and then move or manipulate tasks within that environment.