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Mar 17, 2022
Battery technology and recycling alone will not save the electric mobility transition from future cobalt shortages
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: materials, sustainability
Mar 17, 2022
An NFT Group Bought a Copy of Dune for $3.04 Million Thinking It’s the Copyright
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: blockchains
Mar 17, 2022
Tesla fires employee who posted YouTube videos of Full Self-Driving accident
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The ex-Tesla worker was reportedly laid off for sharing play-by-play footage of an FSD slip-up. Always be careful what you post online.
Bernal was fired and lost beta access after video review showed a minor collision.
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Mar 17, 2022
Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Scientists Sent the First ‘Landline’ Message
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: computing, quantum physics
Mar 17, 2022
Russia May Have Used an Artificial Intelligence Killer Drone in Ukraine According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Posted by Len Rosen in categories: drones, robotics/AI
A downed drone employing AI raises the question of what the international community needs to do to ban such weapons.
Mar 17, 2022
Tesla Raises Prices Again: It Won’t Be the Last Time
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: sustainability, transportation
For the second time in less than a week, Tesla has raised the price of its vehicles. Only this time, we see a significant hike across the entire lineup. The Model 3, its most affordable EV, cost around $42k at the end of 2021 but now starts at $47,000.
Mar 17, 2022
Exocortex: Thought this might be of some interest
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biological, computing, neuroscience, transhumanism
An is an external information processing system that augments the brain’s biological high-level cognitive processes.
An individual’s would be comprised of external memory modules 0, processors 0, IO devices and software systems that would interact with, and augment, a person’s biological brain. Typically this interaction is described as being conducted through a direct brain-computer interface 0, making these extensions functionally part of the individual’s mind.
Individuals with significant exocortices can be classified as transhuman beings.
Mar 17, 2022
Mathematical paradoxes demonstrate the limits of AI
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: information science, mathematics, robotics/AI
Humans are usually pretty good at recognizing when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. According to a new study, AI generally suffers from inherent limitations due to a century-old mathematical paradox.
Like some people, AI systems often have a degree of confidence that far exceeds their actual abilities. And like an overconfident person, many AI systems don’t know when they’re making mistakes. Sometimes it’s even more difficult for an AI system to realize when it’s making a mistake than to produce a correct result.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Oslo say that instability is the Achilles’ heel of modern AI and that a mathematical paradox shows AI’s limitations. Neural networks, the state of the art tool in AI, roughly mimic the links between neurons in the brain. The researchers show that there are problems where stable and accurate neural networks exist, yet no algorithm can produce such a network. Only in specific cases can algorithms compute stable and accurate neural networks.
Mar 17, 2022
An indium oxide-based transistor created using atomic layer deposition
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, mobile phones, solar power, sustainability
Over the past decades, engineers have created increasingly advanced and highly performing integrated circuits (ICs). The rising performance of these circuits in turn increased the speed and efficiency of the technology we use every day, including computers, smartphones and other smart devices.
To continue to improve the performance of integrated circuits in the future, engineers will need to create thinner transistors with shorter channels. Down-scaling existing silicon-based devices or creating smaller devices using alternative semiconducting materials that are compatible with existing fabrication processes, however, has proved to be challenging.
Researchers at Purdue University have recently developed new transistors based on indium oxide, a semiconductor that is often used to create touch screens, flatscreen TVs and solar panels. These transistors, introduced in a paper published in Nature Electronics, were fabricated using atomic layer deposition, a process that is often employed by transistor and electronics manufacturers.
