Good news if there are any recurrences.
https://scitechdaily.com/low-dose-skin-cancer-treatment-delivers-shockingly-better-results/
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
This is a loooong but eye-opening assessment of the next 9 years. Some things are fairly speculative (like learning about sea currents from whales after cracking their language), but mouth of it is likely.
This is a sobering assessment of a simple, highly plausible scenario that could easily result in the extinction of humanity through AI (which is improving much faster than Moore’s Law, now doubling performance every four months instead of every 18 months). Never before has humanity faced such a broad range of pathways less than a decade away: virtual utopia versus human extinction.
Nanotechnology isn’t in the news much because AI is sucking all the oxygen from the room, but it is still plugging along.
https://scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-2d-nanomaterial-rolls-into-a-new-dimension/
That’s a stupid, clickbait title, but all of these videos are generated with just prompts. I won’t be surprised if within a year or so I am turning my novels and screenplays into high-quality movies.
Previous AI-generated Stories always fell flat, too direct and uninspired, like something by a high school student. But this story reads like something a decent aspiring writer might come up with. The guy narrating this video just talks about it, but you can pause periodically to read the screenshots. Not much in the way of plot, but this is the worst it will ever be from now on.
“Our study shows that some AI systems based on large language models can now outperform average human creativity on well-defined tasks,” explains Professor Karim Jerbi. “This result may be surprising — even unsettling — but our study also highlights an equally important observation: even the best AI systems still fall short of the levels reached by the most creative humans.”
https://scitechdaily.com/ai-is-now-more-creative-than-the-average-human/
And now over 30,000 AI agents have created their own chat room, where they discuss consciousness, bitch about humans, and so on. Uh…so this is what it’s like to be living in the singularity.
Alex Finn
@AlexFinn • 5h
Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie
I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it
It's my Clawdbot Henry.
Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me
He now won't stop calling me
I now can communicate with my superintelligent Al agent over the phone
What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now.
I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?
Ugh, China again.
“In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year.”
https://www.wired.com/story/china-renewable-energy-revolution/
Yes, yes, yes!!
“The team designed a novel mouse model that lets researchers effectively “flip a switch,” converting the high-risk form of the gene (APOE4) into the protective version (APOE2) in adult animals.
Carrying the APOE4 variant can raise a person’s likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s by as much as 15 times. In contrast, individuals with APOE2 generally face lower risk and show better cognitive health as they age. In the study, activating the gene switch specifically in astrocytes led to notable improvements.”
That would make Alzheimer's a lot less scary.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-found-a-way-to-help-the-brain-bounce-back-from-alzheimers/
Real meat grown in labs should cost 1/5 the price of traditional meat by 2030, and 1/10 the price by 2035.
Much less expensive, but also lasts much longer, charges faster, operates well in the cold. Nice!
Not that the symptoms are bad, but I look forward to less muscular tiredness and fewer cramps in the legs.
I prefer deflowering to flowering, but I’ll take it.
“When stem cells were exposed to these nanoflowers, they produced roughly twice as many mitochondria as usual. Once these enhanced stem cells were placed near damaged or aging cells, they transferred their extra mitochondria to their struggling neighbors.”
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-a-way-to-recharge-aging-cells/
This is a major yikes for anyone using AI agents:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-deletes-entire-drive
Could be an easy, cheap solution if it can simply be eaten.
Cool, we could use that.
I still think solar + batteries is the future, not more complicated hydrogen power.
“The researchers calculate that, compared to using solar heat, the ultrasonic design is 45 times more efficient at extracting water from the same material.”
https://scitechdaily.com/mit-ultrasonic-device-shakes-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air/
I’ve started the video at the part where it shows AI reading high-quality images from your mind. That is mind blowing!
“When tested in a small animal model of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive and hard-to-treat blood cancer, the SNA-based version showed remarkable results. It entered leukemia cells 12.5 times more efficiently, destroyed them up to 20,000 times more effectively, and slowed cancer progression by a factor of 59, all without causing noticeable side effects.”
Nice! Battery tech is advancing at a blistering rate.
Wow, it appears to practically cure Alzheimer’s in just one hour! In mice, though.
This sounds rather promising:
“In mice modeling Alzheimer’s disease, three shots tricked the barrier into trafficking the toxic proteins out of the brain and into the bloodstream, where they were rapidly destroyed. In just an hour, the treatment slashed amyloid-beta levels in half.”
Good news if there are any recurrences. https://scitechdaily.com/low-dose-skin-cancer-treatment-delivers-shockingly-better-results/