Pocket-Sized AI Fashions Might Unlock a New Period of Computing
Will Knight | Wired
“When ChatGPT was launched in November 2023, it might solely be accessed by means of the cloud as a result of the mannequin behind it was downright monumental. Immediately I’m working a equally succesful AI program on a Macbook Air, and it isn’t even heat. The shrinkage reveals how quickly researchers are refining AI fashions to make them leaner and extra environment friendly. It additionally reveals how going to ever bigger scales isn’t the one technique to make machines considerably smarter.”

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Google Promised a Higher Search Expertise—Now It’s Telling Us to Put Glue on Our Pizza
Kylie Robison | The Verge
“This is only one of many errors cropping up within the new characteristic that Google rolled out broadly this month. It additionally claims that former US President James Madison graduated from the College of Wisconsin not as soon as however 21 occasions, {that a} canine has performed within the NBA, NFL, and NHL, and that Batman is a cop. …Look, Google didn’t promise this might be excellent, and it even slaps a ‘Generative AI is experimental’ label on the backside of the AI solutions. But it surely’s clear these instruments aren’t able to precisely present info at scale.”

Gene Remedy Repairs Spinal Discs to Relieve Again Ache
Michael Irving | New Atlas
“Assessed over 12 weeks, injured mice that obtained the gene remedy had been discovered to have a number of enhancements in comparison with injured mice given plain saline injections. The tissue within the discs was discovered to supply extra proteins that strengthen the tissue, and assist it maintain water. That helped them plump again up and act extra like cushions once more, enhancing the backbone’s vary of movement, load bearing and adaptability. When you can’t precisely ask mice how a lot ache they’re feeling, behavioral checks instructed signs had been lowered.”

On Self-Driving, Waymo Is Enjoying Chess Whereas Tesla Performs Checkers
Timothy B. Lee | Ars Technica
“Many Tesla followers see [limitations like remote operators and avoiding freeways] as indicators that Waymo is headed for a technological lifeless finish. …However I predict that when Tesla begins its driverless transition, it is going to notice that security requires a Waymo-style incremental rollout. So Tesla hasn’t discovered a distinct, higher technique to deliver driverless expertise to market. Waymo is simply up to now forward that it’s coping with challenges Tesla hasn’t even began enthusiastic about. Waymo is taking part in chess whereas Tesla continues to be taking part in checkers.”

A Warp Drive Breakthrough Inches a Tiny Bit Nearer to Star Trek
Paul Sutter | Wired
“A staff of physicists has found that it’s attainable to construct an actual, precise, bodily warp drive and never break any identified guidelines of physics. One caveat: The vessel doing the warping can’t exceed the pace of sunshine, so that you’re not going to get wherever attention-grabbing anytime quickly. However this analysis nonetheless represents an necessary advance in our understanding of gravity.”

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Media Corporations Are Making a Big Mistake With AI
Jessica Lessin | The Atlantic
“For so long as I’ve reported on web firms, I’ve watched information leaders attempt to bend their companies to the need of Apple, Google, Meta, and extra. Chasing tech’s distribution and money, information corporations strike offers to attempt to journey out the following digital wave. They make concessions to platforms that try to take the entire viewers (and belief) that nice journalism attracts, with out ever having to do the difficult and costly work of the journalism itself. And it by no means, ever works as deliberate.”

ChatGPT, Defined
Sheena Vasani | The Verge
“Some writers have declared that the debut of ChatGPT on November thirtieth, 2022, marked the start of a brand new chapter in historical past akin to the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Others have been extra skeptical, questioning if that is simply one other overhyped tech, like blockchain or the metaverse. What historical past will name ChatGPT stays to be seen, however right here’s one factor I do know for positive: no one has shut up about it since. …That’s why we determined to throw collectively this explainer so we are able to reduce by means of all of the BS collectively. You prepared? Let’s start.”

OpenAI Ought to Have Gone Method Past Scarlett Johansson
Ross Andersen | The Atlantic
“Now that we are able to really discuss with a pc, we ought to be dreaming up wholly new methods to do it. Let’s hope that somebody—inside or outdoors of OpenAI—begins giving us a way of what these methods may be. The weirder, the higher. They could not even be modeled after present human relationships. They could tackle completely completely different varieties.”

Nvidia’s Enterprise Is Booming. Right here’s What Might Gradual It Down.
Asa Fitch | The Wall Avenue Journal
“Nvidia is driving excessive after one other quarter of blockbuster gross sales and earnings, whilst threats are rising that might weaken the corporate’s place on the heart of the artificial-intelligence growth. Rivals and key prospects need to produce chips that may shut the hole with Nvidia’s merchandise. In the meantime, the AI market, which has confirmed tough for some startups, is shifting in ways in which might diminish the recognition of Nvidia’s chips.”

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