Thursday, August 31, 2023

GPT-5 AI spy shows how it can destroy the US in a day

This video comes with a fictional but quite plausible movie at the end. Yeah, it’s easy to see how AI could fuck us up big-time:

https://youtu.be/osTGlTAfdWk?si=pRTgEVHAivYNLU0H

Saturday, August 26, 2023

New Study: ChatGPT Outperforms University Students in Writing

More milestones crossed...

https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-chatgpt-outperforms-university-students-in-writing/?expand_article=1

A New Era in Biophysics Discovery Unleashed by Exascale Supercomputers

https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-era-in-biophysics-discovery-unleashed-by-exascale-supercomputers/?expand_article=1

Brain Gains: Scientists Discover How To Replicate the Cognitive Benefits of Exercise

https://scitechdaily.com/brain-gains-scientists-discover-how-to-replicate-the-cognitive-benefits-of-exercise/?expand_article=1

Simple Device Can Identify Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in Your Sleep

I'd like to get hold of one of these:

https://scitechdaily.com/simple-device-can-identify-early-signs-of-alzheimers-disease-in-your-sleep/?expand_article=1

“Truly Mind-Boggling” Breakthrough: Graphene Surprise Could Help Generate Hydrogen Cheaply and Sustainably

Not all THAT mind-boggling.

https://scitechdaily.com/truly-mind-boggling-breakthrough-graphene-surprise-could-help-generate-hydrogen-cheaply-and-sustainably/

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

No AI Can Learn the Art of Medicine

But let’s be clear—practicing medicine is an art, and no technology can take away that fact. When facing patients themselves, human interaction with a doctor is vital. Patient satisfaction and shared decision-making will continue to rely heavily on this humanism. Medicine is a profession that still requires compassion, reassurance, and most importantly, empathy. Even with the advent and ongoing evolution of AI and other large language models, empathy is best learned and communicated in the form of bedside teaching by humans—not AI or chatbots.

I call horseshit on that. A.I. is already making huge inroads into all the arts, and in many cases doing it better than many professionals. And that’s NOW, when A.I. is just getting started. What do you want to bet A.I. won’t have a better bedside manner than any doctor within five years?

https://time.com/6306922/artificial-intelligence-medicine-doctors/

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

AI Singularity realistically by 2029: year-by-year milestones

Very interesting predictions here:

2023: Human-like NLU (DONE = GPT-4)

2023: Simple disembodied AGIs (independently can do real-world stuff, hints of DONE)

2024Mature NLU (hallucination & task iteration robustly solved)

2024Advanced disembodied AGIs (reliably, independently can do real-world stuff)

20251000s of androids are available for under $100K (minimally dexterous but decently conversational, barely beyond prototypes, but are able to learn some tasks)

2026: Earliest possible disembodied super intelligence-based AI Singularity(more likely around 2028)

2027Millions of androids available for under $50K (highly dexterous, perfect human-like intelligence, they can guess what to do most of the time, learn quickly and 1000s of App Store domain expertises are available)

2028: Earliest possible android-based AI Singularity (more likely around 2030)

2029: Tens of mIllions of near-super intelligent androids available for around $25K (advanced human-like in almost every way, they can build themselves)

https://medium.com/@paul.k.pallaghy/ai-singularity-realistically-by-2029-year-by-year-milestones-d7b3f8fa442c

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Clean Energy 24/7: Engineers Use Nanotechnology To Harvest Electricity “From Thin Air”

 “And since humidity is ever-present, the harvester would run 24/7, rain or shine, at night and whether or not the wind blows, which solves one of the major problems of technologies like wind or solar, which only work under certain conditions.   

Finally, because air humidity diffuses in three-dimensional space and the thickness of the Air-gen device is only a fraction of the width of a human hair, many thousands of them can be stacked on top of each other, efficiently scaling up the amount of energy without increasing the footprint of the device. Such an Air-gen device would be capable of delivering kilowatt-level power for general electrical utility usage.”

https://scitechdaily.com/clean-energy-24-7-engineers-use-nanotechnology-to-harvest-electricity-from-thin-air/

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Not Science Fiction: Brain Activity Decoder Transforms Thoughts Into Text

Interesting, but limited so far:

For example, in experiments, a participant listening to a speaker say, “I don’t have my driver’s license yet” had their thoughts translated as, “She has not even started to learn to drive yet.” Listening to the words, “I didn’t know whether to scream, cry or run away. Instead, I said, ‘Leave me alone!’” was decoded as, “Started to scream and cry, and then she just said, ‘I told you to leave me alone.’”

https://scitechdaily.com/not-science-fiction-brain-activity-decoder-transforms-thoughts-into-text/

This Copper Drug Clears Alzheimer’s Brain Toxins and Boosts Memory

That sounds remarkably encouraging. “By improving the pumps, the brain can finally clear out the trapped waste. Over 56 days, the treatment ...