ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGIJoel Khalili | Wired ($)
“Because the world’s largest corporations pour a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} into giant language fashions, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is making an attempt one thing totally different in pursuit of AI that may mimic the human mind. …The highway to AGI, Bodnia contends, begins with the layering of those several types of AI: LLMs will interface with people in pure language, EBMs will take up reasoning duties, whereas world fashions will assist robots take motion in 3D house.”
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google Venture Genie Lets You Create Interactive Worlds From a Picture or ImmediateRyan Whitwam | Ars Technica
“World fashions are precisely what they sound like—an AI that generates a dynamic setting on the fly. …The system first generates a nonetheless picture, and from which you could generate the world. That is what Google calls ‘world sketching.'”
Biotechnology
The First Human Check of a Rejuvenation Methodology Will Start ‘Shortly’Antonio Regalado | MIT Expertise Assessment ($)
“[Life Biosciences] plans to attempt to deal with eye illness with a radical rejuvenation idea known as ‘reprogramming’ that has just lately attracted a whole bunch of tens of millions in funding for Silicon Valley corporations like Altos Labs, New Restrict, and Retro Biosciences, backed by lots of the largest names in tech. The approach 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 VehiclesBecky Peterson | The Wall Road Journal ($)
“Jonas will information the financial institution’s shoppers on what he’s calling the ‘Cambrian explosion of bots’—a time within the not-so-distant-future by which absolutely autonomous automobiles, drones, humanoids and industrial robots develop giant sufficient in inhabitants to rival the human race. His idea is misleading in its simplicity: Something that may be automated will probably be automated, he says, even people.”
Area
Mapping 6,000 Worlds: The New Period of Exoplanetary KnowledgeEliza Strickland | IEEE Spectrum
“[Astronomers can now] examine planet sizes, lots, and compositions; observe how tightly planets orbit their stars; and measure the prevalence of various sorts of planetary programs. These statistics enable astronomers to estimate how often planets type, and to begin making knowledgeable guesses about how typically situations come up that would help life. The Drake Equation makes use of such estimates to sort out one among humanity’s most profound questions: Are we alone within the universe?”
Future
Stratospheric Web Might Lastly Begin Taking Off This YrTereza Pultarova | MIT Expertise Assessment ($)
“As we speak, an estimated 2.2 billion folks nonetheless have both restricted or no entry to the web, largely as a result of they dwell in distant locations. However that quantity might drop this 12 months, due to exams of stratospheric airships, uncrewed plane, and different high-altitude platforms for web supply.”
Robotics
Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Baby Close to a Faculty, Inflicting Minor AccidentsAndrew J. Hawkins | The Verge
“In a weblog put up, Waymo stated its automobile was touring at 17mph when its autonomous system detected the kid after which ‘braked onerous,’ lowering its pace 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 highway, and stayed there till legislation enforcement cleared the automobile to go away the scene,’ it stated.”
Synthetic Intelligence
Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s Startup Targets As much as $1 Billion in Funding to Develop a New Kind of AIStephanie Palazzolo and Wayne Ma | The Data ($)
“[Jerry] Tworek represents a small however rising group of AI researchers who consider the sector wants an overhaul as a result of in the present day’s hottest mannequin growth 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 Value Premium To Lyft and Uber Is Closing, Report FindsAnita Ramaswamy | The Data ($)
“The common worth to journey in Waymo’s robotaxis has dropped by 3.6% since March to $19.69 per journey, in keeping with a brand new report by ride-hailing analytics agency Obi. Driving in a Waymo is now, on common, 12.7% dearer than using in an Uber and 27.4% dearer than using in a Lyft, down from a 30% to 40% premium for Waymo rides final April, the month coated by Obi’s earlier report.”
