ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGIJoel Khalili | Wired ($)
“Because the world’s largest firms pour lots of of billions of {dollars} into giant language fashions, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is attempting one thing completely different in pursuit of AI that may mimic the human mind. …The street to AGI, Bodnia contends, begins with the layering of those various kinds of AI: LLMs will interface with people in pure language, EBMs will take up reasoning duties, whereas world fashions will assist robots take motion in 3D house.”
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google Challenge Genie Lets You Create Interactive Worlds From a Photograph or ImmediateRyan Whitwam | Ars Technica
“World fashions are precisely what they sound like—an AI that generates a dynamic setting on the fly. …The system first generates a nonetheless picture, and from that you could generate the world. That is what Google calls ‘world sketching.'”
Biotechnology
The First Human Check of a Rejuvenation Methodology Will Start ‘Shortly’Antonio Regalado | MIT Expertise Assessment ($)
“[Life Biosciences] plans to attempt to deal with eye illness with a radical rejuvenation idea known as ‘reprogramming’ that has lately attracted lots of of hundreds of thousands in funding for Silicon Valley companies like Altos Labs, New Restrict, and Retro Biosciences, backed by lots of the largest names in tech. The method makes an attempt to revive cells to a more healthy state by broadly resetting their epigenetic controls—switches on our genes that decide that are turned on and off.”
Future
The Wall Road Star Betting His Status on Robots and Flying AutomobilesBecky Peterson | The Wall Road Journal ($)
“Jonas will information the financial institution’s shoppers on what he’s calling the ‘Cambrian explosion of bots’—a time within the not-so-distant-future during which totally autonomous autos, drones, humanoids and industrial robots develop giant sufficient in inhabitants to rival the human race. His idea is misleading in its simplicity: Something that may be automated shall be automated, he says, even people.”
House
Mapping 6,000 Worlds: The New Period of Exoplanetary InformationEliza Strickland | IEEE Spectrum
“[Astronomers can now] examine planet sizes, lots, and compositions; observe how tightly planets orbit their stars; and measure the prevalence of various sorts of planetary programs. These statistics enable astronomers to estimate how often planets type, and to start out making knowledgeable guesses about how usually situations come up that might assist life. The Drake Equation makes use of such estimates to sort out certainly one of humanity’s most profound questions: Are we alone within the universe?”
Future
Stratospheric Web May Lastly Begin Taking Off This 12 monthsTereza Pultarova | MIT Expertise Assessment ($)
“In the present day, an estimated 2.2 billion individuals nonetheless have both restricted or no entry to the web, largely as a result of they stay in distant locations. However that quantity may drop this 12 months, because of assessments of stratospheric airships, uncrewed plane, and different high-altitude platforms for web supply.”
Robotics
Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Little one Close to a College, Inflicting Minor AccidentsAndrew J. Hawkins | The Verge
“In a weblog publish, Waymo stated its automobile was touring at 17mph when its autonomous system detected the kid after which ‘braked laborious,’ decreasing its velocity to 6mph earlier than ‘contact was made.’ The kid ‘stood up instantly, walked to the sidewalk,’ and Waymo stated it known as 911. ‘The automobile moved to the facet of the street, and stayed there till legislation enforcement cleared the automobile to depart the scene,’ it stated.”
Synthetic Intelligence
Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s Startup Targets As much as $1 Billion in Funding to Develop a New Sort of AIStephanie Palazzolo and Wayne Ma | The Info ($)
“[Jerry] Tworek represents a small however rising group of AI researchers who consider the sphere wants an overhaul as a result of at this time’s hottest mannequin improvement methods appear unlikely to have the ability to develop superior AI that may obtain main breakthroughs in biology, drugs and different fields whereas additionally managing to keep away from foolish errors.”
Robotics
Waymo’s Worth Premium To Lyft and Uber Is Closing, Report FindsAnita Ramaswamy | The Info ($)
“The common value to experience in Waymo’s robotaxis has dropped by 3.6% since March to $19.69 per experience, based on a brand new report by ride-hailing analytics agency Obi. Using in a Waymo is now, on common, 12.7% costlier than using in an Uber and 27.4% costlier than using in a Lyft, down from a 30% to 40% premium for Waymo rides final April, the month lined by Obi’s earlier report.”
