I tested the next generation AI assistant.it will blow you away
Will Knight | Wired
“When the fruits of the recent generative AI boom are properly integrated into legacy assistant bots, [like Siri and Alexa], I’m sure it will be more interesting. “A year from now, I think his experience of using a computer will be very different,” Shah says. He says he built vimGPT in just a few days. “Most apps will see fewer clicks, more chats, and agents becoming an integral part of web browsing.”
CRISPR gene therapy appears to treat dangerous inflammatory conditions
Claire Wilson | New Scientist
“Ten people who received a one-time gene therapy administered directly into the body saw a 95 percent reduction in the number of ‘swelling attacks’ during the first six months after the treatment took effect. . Since then, all but one have had no further seizures for at least a year, although one patient who received the lowest dose had one mild seizure. “This is potentially a cure,” says Padmaral Gurgama of Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK, who worked on the new approach.
Apple Vision Pro review: Magic, until it’s gone
Niraj Patel | The Verge
“Vision Pro is an amazing product. From its incredible display and pass-through engineering, to leveraging its entire ecosystem for seamless convenience, to making it almost oblivious to the entire external battery situation. , a first-generation device that only Apple could really make. …But what’s shocking is that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends, meaning they’re never executed well enough for them to become mainstream. Apple may have inadvertently revealed that this is not the case.”
Allen Institute for AI Releases ‘True Open Source’ LLM to Drive ‘Significant Change’ in AI Development
Sharon Goldman Venture Beat
“While other models include model code and model weights, OLMo also provides training code, training data, an associated toolkit, and an evaluation toolkit. In addition, OLMo provides the AI2 states that “all code, weights, and intermediate checkpoints are released under the Apache 2.0 license.” This news comes at a time when open source/open science AI is making great strides, catching up with closed and proprietary LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude. ”
A robot that cleans your room without any help
Rhiannon Williams MIT Technology Review
“Robots may be able to easily complete tasks such as: [picking up and moving things] In the laboratory, getting people to work in an unfamiliar environment with little data available is a big challenge. Now, a new system called OK-Robot has the potential to train robots to pick up and move objects in environments they’ve never experienced before. This is an approach that has the potential to bridge the gap between rapidly improving AI models and the capabilities of real robots, as it does not require additional costly and complex training. ”
People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs away. I’ve been here before.
David Rotman | MIT Technology Review
“[Karl T. Compton’s 1938] This essay succinctly summarizes the debate on employment and technological advancement in a way that retains its relevance today, especially given today’s concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence. …Although today’s technology certainly looks quite different from that of the 1930s, Compton’s article points out that concerns about the future of employment are not new and, rather than invoking genies or monsters, are is a valuable reminder that it can best be addressed by applying an understanding of ”
Company announces experimental drug blocks the root of pain
Gina Kolata | New York Times
“Announced by Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Boston.” [this week] The company announced that it has developed an experimental drug that reduces moderate to severe pain and blocks pain signals before they reach the brain. They differ from opioids because they only affect peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. Vertex says its new drug is expected to avoid the addictive potential of opioids. ”
Starlab – half the volume of the ISS – fits within the Starship’s payload bay.
Eric Berger | Ars Technica
“We considered multiple launches to get STAR Lab into orbit, but ultimately gravitated toward a single launch option.” [Voyager Space CTO Marshall Smith] Said. “You save a lot on development costs. You save a lot on integration costs. You can build everything on the ground, check it out, test it with payloads and other systems, and launch it. One of the many lessons we have learned from the International Space Station is that building and integrating in space is very expensive.” Once launched on Starship, the StarLab module will be ready for human habitation almost immediately. Smith said it should be ready for the . ”
9 retro-futuristic prophecies that came true
Maxwell Zeff | Gizmodo
“Every year commentators and reporters try to predict where technology will go, but many don’t get it right every year. Who gets it right? Often the world is like pop culture’s past versus its future. By looking to retrofuturism, an older version of the future, we can often predict what direction our developed society will take.”
Can this AI-powered search engine replace Google? I need it too.
Kevin Ruth | New York Times
“Intrigued by the hype, I recently used Perplexity as my default search engine for a few weeks on both desktop and mobile. … After hundreds of searches, Perplexity is not perfect, but it is very While we don’t intend to break up with Google completely, there’s a chance that an AI-powered search engine like Perplexity could loosen Google’s grip on the search market, or at least force it to catch up. I am now convinced that there is.”
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