Eight Google employees invent the latest AI.Click here for the inside story
Stephen Levy | Wired
“They met by chance, fell in love with an idea, and wrote the paper on Transformers, the most important technological advance in recent history. …As it nears its seventh anniversary, Attention is a legendary… gained a prestigious position. The authors start with a thriving and evolving technology, a variety of AI called neural networks, and turn it into something else: a digital system so powerful that its output feels like the product of an alien intelligence. I made it up. ”
Surgeon transplants pig kidney into patient, medical breakthrough
Loni Caryn Rabin | New York Times
“Boston surgeons have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a sick 62-year-old man, the first surgery of its kind. If successful, this breakthrough could mean that the kidney It would bring hope to hundreds of thousands of Americans with malfunctioning kidneys. …If genetically modified animal kidneys could be transplanted on a large scale, dialysis would 'become obsolete', says Massachusetts General Hospital Kidney Transplant said Dr. Leonardo V. Riera, Medical Director.
CRISPR could disable and treat HIV, suggests promising lab experiment
Claire Wilson | New Scientist
“New methods of eradicating HIV from the body may one day become a cure for infections caused by this virus, but their effectiveness in humans has not yet been proven. Some groups believe that the dormant virus Carrillo and her team are now conducting research using CRISPR to target genes in HIV as a way to disable the virus. We showed that we can disable the virus and eliminate the virus from these cells.”
Partnership with Microsoft, talks between Apple and Google show tech giants need help from AI
Dina Bass and Jackie Davalos | Bloomberg
“These moves suggest that Microsoft and Google are struggling with how to leverage generative artificial intelligence, even as they pour billions of dollars into partnerships, investments, and product development. Neither company has moved fast enough to develop consumer products that generate revenue and gain market share, and despite their size and power, they remain vulnerable to disruption. .”
The US government appears to be serious about developing a lunar economy.
Eric Berger | Ars Technica
“For the first time in history, the United States is serious about developing an economy on the moon. …In recent months, [DARPA] He stepped in to help. In December, DARPA announced it was working with 14 companies under the LunaA-10, including major space companies such as Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, as well as non-space companies such as Nokia. The companies are evaluating how services such as power and communications could be established on the lunar surface and are expected to submit a final report by June. ”
Video: Giant robotic arm 3D prints two-story house
Michael Franco | New Atlas
“Icon's new 3D construction printer can create two-story concrete buildings faster and cheaper than previous Vulcan printers. It has already been used to construct a 27-foot-tall structure called Phoenix House. It is currently on display in Austin, Texas.
Elon Musk has thrown a punch in the AI race
Mateo Wong | Atlantic
“Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk fired the latest shot in his feud with OpenAI. His new AI venture, xAI, now allows anyone to download and use the computer code of its flagship software. ” There are no fees or restrictions, and it uses only Grok, a large-scale language model that Musk has positioned against OpenAI's GPT-4 (the model behind the cutting-edge version of ChatGPT). ”
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Hackers discover how to open 3 million hotel keycard locks in seconds
Andy Greenberg | Wired
“At a private event in 2022, a select group of researchers will actually invited They hacked a Las Vegas hotel room, competing to find digital vulnerabilities in every gadget in the room, from the television to the bedside VoIP phone, in a suite crowded with laptops and cans of Red Bull. …Now, more than a year and a half later, they are finally revealing the results of their research. They've discovered a technology that allows an intruder to open any of the millions of hotel rooms around the world in seconds with just two taps. ”
OpenAI's chatbot store is full of spam
Kyle Wiggers Tech Crunch
“Tech Crunch” We found that the GPT Store, OpenAI's official marketplace for GPTs, is flooded with strange, potentially copyright-infringing GPTs that hint at a light touch regarding OpenAI's moderation efforts. A cursory search will turn up GPTs that claim to generate art in the style of Disney and Marvel properties, but are just funnels to third-party paid services, like Turnitin and CopyLeak. ”
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