GAC's new Aion V is the most efficient electric car EVER

Pretty amazing…but China:

https://youtu.be/yW6Xqmi1KjM?si=wyfZlCu2wxCMcLOX https://youtu.be/yW6Xqmi1KjM?si=wyfZlCu2wxCMcLOX

“Mind-Boggling” – Scripps Scientists Uncover New Molecular Drivers of Alzheimer’s

https://scitechdaily.com/mind-boggling-scripps-scientists-uncover-new-molecular-drivers-of-alzheimers/

Dementia Breakthrough: New AI Solves in Minutes a Challenge That Would Take Neuroscientists Weeks

AI begins its assault on dementia:

https://scitechdaily.com/dementia-breakthrough-new-ai-solves-in-minutes-a-challenge-that-would-take-neuroscientists-weeks/

New Reactor System Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Usable Fuel

https://scitechdaily.com/new-reactor-system-converts-carbon-dioxide-into-usable-fuel/

Harnessing the Sun: Innovative Thermal Trap Reaches Over 1000 °C Using Sunlight

https://scitechdaily.com/harnessing-the-sun-innovative-thermal-trap-reaches-over-1000-c-using-sunlight/

Reaching absolute zero for quantum computing now much quicker thanks to breakthrough refrigerator design

https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/reaching-absolute-zero-for-quantum-computing-now-much-quicker-thanks-to-breakthrough-refrigerator-design

Pioneering the Fight Against Dementia: 20,000 Volunteers Join Groundbreaking Study

Good. More of this, please:

https://scitechdaily.com/pioneering-the-fight-against-dementia-20000-volunteers-join-groundbreaking-study/

A rare mutation protects against Alzheimer's disease, Stanford-led research finds

Interesting: the R251G gene that (rarely) pairs with the APOE4 gene appears to negate the increased chance of Alzheimer's:

A rare mutation protects against Alzheimer's disease, Stanford-led research finds | News Center | Stanford Medicine

Simple New Strategy Improves Safety and Precision of CRISPR Gene Editing

https://scitechdaily.com/simple-new-strategy-improves-safety-and-precision-of-crispr-gene-editing/

How This Fusion Tech is Solving the Geothermal Energy Problem

https://youtu.be/psyCWvavYt0?si=0UDfR45kQ5hQeG2Q

Coming Soon: A Post-Cow World - Precision Fermentation

Good reason for hope that factory farming will soon go the way of the dodo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXYg-qt4OCc

Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative

Cool, although we haven’t noticed any price changes yet:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/germany-solar-power-electric-prices

Can ChatGPT Mimic Theory of Mind? Psychology Is Probing AI’s Inner Workings

It’s interesting to see how AI does with human theory of mind tests. I find it especially interesting that every time AI accomplishes something that was thought of as something indicative of human thinking, the reaction is always that those accomplishments aren’t so indicative of human thinking after all. Like when chess was thought to be a pinnacle of human intelligence, only to see it easily fall to AI decades ago, chess playing was quickly demoted to something far less impressive. I wonder if that will always be the case, even when AI passes every test. Certainly not everyone will think so but I’ll bet the religious and many philosophers will insist AI is never conscious or sapient.

https://singularityhub.com/2024/05/21/can-chatgpt-mimic-theory-of-mind-psychology-is-probing-ais-inner-workings/

A Revolutionary Approach to Flu Prevention: New Molecules Stop Infection Before It Starts

https://scitechdaily.com/a-revolutionary-approach-to-flu-prevention-new-molecules-stop-infection-before-it-starts/

Scientists just discovered an enormous lithium reservoir under Pennsylvania

BIG help for the US:

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/scientists-just-discovered-an-enormous-lithium-reservoir-under-pennsylvania

CATL Shenxing Battery Strikes Fear Into The Hearts Of Governments & Automakers

“According to the company, its latest battery, called Shenxing PLUS, can charge at 4C, add 600 kilometers of range in just 10 minutes using a DC fast charger, and power an electric car for up to 1000 kilometers on a full charge. BOOM! The EV revolution just got disrupted and nothing will ever be the same again.”

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/18/catl-shenxing-battery-strikes-fear-into-the-hearts-of-governments-automakers/

Doing 'less' is not a solution

He makes several good points about how cutting consumption doesn’t really help, only innovation does:

https://youtu.be/MeQTce9VDMU?si=jr4zABgDoCzGSTib

I’m not going to be profligate in my consumption because of this, but it does imply that cutting consumption doesn’t really do anything.

Mars in a Flash: How Pulsed Plasma Rockets Are Revolutionizing Space Travel

https://scitechdaily.com/mars-in-a-flash-how-pulsed-plasma-rockets-are-revolutionizing-space-travel/

Crushing It: Autonomous AI Robot Creates a Shock-Absorbing Shape No Human Ever Could

https://scitechdaily.com/crushing-it-autonomous-ai-robot-creates-a-shock-absorbing-shape-no-human-ever-could/

1,000 Times Smaller Than a Grain of Sand – Newest Optical Fiber Technology Could Supercharge Internet Speeds

https://scitechdaily.com/1000-times-smaller-than-a-grain-of-sand-newest-optical-fiber-technology-could-supercharge-internet-speeds/

What robots mean for the environment

And now the disruption robots will likely cause, dropping the cost of labor down to perhaps as little as one cent per hour:

https://youtu.be/sT6WfUZp8es?si=nzyIyb_991Jrm9eH

Rethinking Energy 2020-2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning

A more detailed and impressive analysis of energy disruption and how solar, wind and batteries will transform the world by as soon as 2030 (and this was made pre-AI explosion!):

https://youtu.be/6zgwiQ6BoLA?si=5zV5UarO7nTmKOLY

What is disruption?

Why we have good reason to think the disruptions in energy, agriculture, travel and labor will profoundly change our lives over the next 15 years:

https://youtu.be/8or7aj7-fLE?si=-qpyM4MbP5pOzUGR

ZIP7 Protein: New Target for Treating Degenerative Diseases Like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

https://scitechdaily.com/zip7-protein-new-target-for-treating-degenerative-diseases-like-alzheimers-and-parkinsons/

Scientists prove 'quantum theory' that could lead to ultrafast magnetic computing

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/scientists-prove-quantum-theory-that-could-lead-to-ultrafast-magnetic-computing

Unlocking the Secrets of Aging: Chinese Researchers Discover Potential Key to Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-secrets-of-aging-chinese-researchers-discover-potential-key-to-alzheimers-disease/

This Buoy Just Unlocked Unlimited Wave Energy

https://youtu.be/3X2PqKKPb48?si=w5TFPHKZL2kadCkK

AI-Powered Fusion: The Key to Limitless Clean Energy

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-powered-fusion-the-key-to-limitless-clean-energy/

Google's 'HER' AI, Project Astra, Sora Competitor, Native AI Agents and AGI (Google I/O Supercut)

But Google’s Gemini isn’t resting on its laurels. This demonstration is every bit as stunning as GPT-4o:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-csE31ty9K0

GPT-4o Deep Dive: the AI that CRUSHES everything

Many more examples. I love the language tutor, consistent character generator in graphics, superior therapist capabilities, and real handwriting simulation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgkGAaJwYs

'Quantum-inspired' laser computing is more effective than both supercomputing and quantum computing, startup claims

“According to the company, the LPU100 can perform complex operations such as vector-matrix multiplications — a demanding computational workload — in just 10 nanoseconds. That is hundreds of times quicker than the fastest graphics processing units (GPUs) can perform the same task.”

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/quantum-inspired-laser-computing-is-more-effective-than-either-supercomputing-or-quantum-computing-startup-claims

INSANE OpenAI News: GPT-4o and your own AI partner

This update to GPT is jaw-dropping. It’s hard not to feel it’s human:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvFTeAVMmAg

And this is the WORST AI will be from now on.

Researchers Warn: AI Systems Have Already Learned How To Deceive Humans

Uh-oh:

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-warn-ai-systems-have-already-learned-how-to-deceive-humans/

Data du jour: Batteries rising

Nice!

“batteries supplied more than one-fifth of California's electricity and, for a few minutes, pumped out 7,046 megawatts of electricity, akin to the output from seven large nuclear reactors.”

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-9f51685b-b566-4f57-9d72-89b1d72216b7.html?chunk=5&utm_term=emshare#story5

Why Energy Consumption will PLUMMET by 2050

https://youtu.be/8Y7_GyWgh-o?si=rm5GP3frEylP05I0

Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers

Wow:

“We did the back-of-napkin math on what ramping up this experiment to the entire brain would cost, and the scale is impossibly large — 1.6 zettabytes of storage costing $50 billion and spanning 140 acres, making it the largest data center on the planet.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/full-scan-of-1-cubic-millimeter-of-brain-tissue-took-14-petabytes-of-data-equivalent-to-14000-full-length-4k-movies

Revolutionary Battery Tech Promises Less Charging Time, More Energy Storage

https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionary-battery-tech-promises-less-charging-time-more-energy-storage/

Tony Seba just revealed why Elon Musk is no longer interested in EVs

Robotics is just far more important:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AcYWY5LpTM

AI Can Now Generate Entire Songs on Demand. What Does This Mean for Music as We Know It?

https://singularityhub.com/2024/05/07/ai-can-now-generate-entire-songs-on-demand-what-does-this-mean-for-music-as-we-know-it/

DOE launches sweeping new AI initiative

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-science-d8320790-0daf-11ef-a29a-f77e554e12ab.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2

New AI tool unlocks biology

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/09/new-ai-tool-unlocks-biology-science?utm_term=emshare

Cheap Catalyst Made Out of Sugar Has the Power To Destroy CO2

https://scitechdaily.com/cheap-catalyst-made-out-of-sugar-has-the-power-to-destroy-co2/

CATL reveal new battery with highest energy density in the world

Supposedly you need 400 kWh batteries in order to enable all electric commercial aircraft. CATL’s new battery is 500 kWh. That’s a game changer!

But it’s from China.…

https://youtu.be/3o8MDaqM0RU?si=NQ-0DnBi3H9s5fyI

EV batteries could last much longer thanks to new capacitor with 19-times higher energy density that scientists created by mistake

https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/ev-batteries-could-last-much-longer-thanks-to-new-capacitor-with-19-times-power-density-that-scientists-created-by-mistake

America's first 1.2 megawatt charge station is powered by solar & batteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxtOg7ZGu8

DeepMind AlphaFold 3 - This Will Change Everything!

https://youtu.be/Mz7Qp73lj9o?si=m73Xr9JJbSPnC5E_

AI Ethics Surpass Human Judgment in New Moral Turing Test

AI failing a Turing test…because it’s TOO good:

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-ethics-surpass-human-judgment-in-new-moral-turing-test/

Cheaper and Better: Japanese Scientists Unveil Ultra-Efficient Electrical Converter

https://scitechdaily.com/cheaper-and-better-japanese-scientists-unveil-ultra-efficient-electrical-converter/

'World's purest silicon' could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/worlds-purest-silicon-could-lead-to-1st-million-qubit-quantum-computing-chips

CATL's sodium hybrid battery will be 30% cheaper & revolutionise the world

Very cool…but it’s Chinese. Grr.

https://youtu.be/h74Xj-WWwBc?si=mgYbSTTLUxVixZQV

DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes

Terminator, here we come:

https://www.techspot.com/news/102769-darpa-unleashes-20-foot-autonomous-robo-tank-glowing.html

Revolutionizing Alzheimer’s Research: Cornell Scientists Develop Groundbreaking Neuron Model

https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionizing-alzheimers-research-cornell-scientists-develop-groundbreaking-neuron-model/

Unlocking Longevity: New Study Reveals Brain-Muscle Clock Synchronization Prevents Aging

https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-longevity-new-study-reveals-brain-muscle-clock-synchronization-prevents-aging/

Over 1,000 Qubits Achieved – Physicists Set World Record for Atom-Based Quantum Computers

https://scitechdaily.com/over-1000-qubits-achieved-physicists-set-world-record-for-atom-based-quantum-computers/

Revitalizing Rechargeables: New Elements Enhance Lithium Battery Cyclability

https://scitechdaily.com/revitalizing-rechargeables-new-elements-enhance-lithium-battery-cyclability/

Fusion Breakthrough: Compact New Device Reaches Temperatures of 37 Million Degrees

Come on, fusion!

https://scitechdaily.com/fusion-breakthrough-compact-new-device-reaches-temperatures-of-37-million-degrees/

Precision From Chaos: The Unexpected Strategy Behind Smarter Robots

https://scitechdaily.com/precision-from-chaos-the-unexpected-strategy-behind-smarter-robots/

Reducing Alzheimer’s Risk by 70%: Columbia Scientists Discover Super Gene

https://scitechdaily.com/reducing-alzheimers-risk-by-70-columbia-scientists-discover-super-gene/