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There is work to mitigate, detect and prevent the hallucinated bad results from Generative AI like ChatGPT. One current general research challenge in NLP is to establish a means of identifying hallucinated texts without the need to entirely redesign new NLP (AI) models that incorporate, define and authenticate facts as discrete entities. Authenticating all facts ... Read more

Peter Voss says the AI alignment problem is bogus. AGI expert Peter Voss walks through the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, the differences between Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence, his take on the dangers of AGI, taking his previous venture from 0-400 employees and IPO’ing, and the mission behind his new company, Aigo.ai. He thinks ... Read more

Here is a summary of an overview of the field of Artificial General Intelligence. Generative AI (Neural Networks) likely need enhancements from the other disciplines of AGI. Here a summary of the views of Ben Geortzel who has been working on these problems for decades and has had led funded AI companies working to achieve ... Read more

Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+. He helped popularize the term ‘artificial general intelligence’. Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot. He was a Director of ... Read more

Alan Thompson provides detailed tracking of the generative AI models and their specifications. There are well over major 100 generative AI models and the top ten or so are in the 100-1000 GB size range and 100 to 1 trillion parameter range.

OpenAI released it March 14, 2023 but it was finished training in August, 2022. They finished testing and tuning it and aligning it for the next 7 months. GPT 3.5 is outputting 310 million words per minute. This means it is publishing the entire published works of humanity every 14 days. CS India has appointed ... Read more

Scientists report that they have built a living “minimal cell” with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and testing their model, the scientists say they are developing a system that can predict how changes to the genomes, living conditions ... Read more

Labuan, Malaysia, April 4th, 2023, Chainwire On 4th April 2023, Cerus Markets announced the launch of its new platform for easy, safe, and innovative crypto derivatives trading. Founded by industry veterans, Cerus Markets plans to revolutionize the way people trade cryptocurrencies. The Next Evolution in Crypto Cerus Markets is proud to introduce Non-Deliverable Crypto contracts ... Read more

Saudi Arabia, Iraq and several Gulf states (OPEC Plus) said on Sunday they were cutting oil production by more than one million barrels of oil a day. OPEC Plus includes the main OPEC countries and Russia and a few other countries. The reduction in output is being made by members of the Opec+ oil producers. ... Read more

Stephen Wolfram made WolframAlpha which is the main online program for math and physics solutions. He has made one of the first plugins for ChatGPT. He starts by explaining that ChatGPT and the large language models is able to generate human-like text and responses based upon extremely good statistical productions of the next word in ... Read more

University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, has drawn inspiration from butterflies to create the first environmentally friendly, large-scale and multicolor alternative to pigment-based colorants, which can contribute to energy-saving efforts and help reduce global warming. Instead of pigment-based colored paint, which requires artificially synthesized molecules, a UCF ... Read more

The Tesla CyberVault is a charging device (launched in China) that works at 220 V and is compatible with the entire Tesla model line, with a maximum charging current of 32 A and a maximum power of 7 kW. It has a combination lock and seems designed to handle a future Cybertruck. The maximum power ... Read more

April 2, 20023, Tesla Gigafactory Texas announced they had achieved a production rate of 4,000 units in a week. Congrats Giga Texas team on building 4k Model Y this week! pic.twitter.com/JFqaixZLCa — Tesla (@Tesla) April 2, 2023 Tesla Gigaberlin announced they had reached 5000 units in a week on March 25, 2023. #GigaBerlinBrandenburg proud team ... Read more

Tesla produced over 440,000 vehicles and delivered over 422,000 vehicles. This beat the official analyst estimates but missed whisper numbers. This was a record for quarterly production and a record for quarterly deliveries. Inventories increased from 13 days to about 15-16 days of inventory. This is still very good for car companies.

BYD has a target of 3.6 million EVs and Hybrid cars in 2023 and they sold 207,080 in March. This is a 2.4 million annual runrate. BYD sold 102,670 units of passenger BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles), up 91.32 percent from 53,664 units a year ago and up 13.27 percent from 90,639 units in February. This ... Read more

Polymatter describes how China has been allowing corruption is a form of cash and perks that are a commission system for business development. High-level leaders (elites in government) are promoted and rewarded for attracting growing businesses. The lower level bureaucracy is given very lower wages aka base pay. The elites make a deal that they ... Read more

SpaceX has moved the Super Heavy Starship and NASA has reserved observation planes for April 10 and 11.

OpenAI announced and released on Thursday, March 23, 2023, the capability to have plugins associated with their widely and wildly successful generative AI app known as ChatGPT. This has undoubtedly caused a ripple in the energy force across all of the AI realm and beyond. OpenTable restaurant tables can be accessed via ChatGPT via plugins. ... Read more

Ilya Sutskever makes the case that humanoid robots that embody advanced generative AI need to have hundreds of thousands of units in order to get the AI training data and rapid improvements. This clearly means that Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist at Open AI, home of Chat GPT and Dall-e, in an interview with Dwarkesh Patel, ... Read more

Paris, France, 31st March, 2023, Chainwire Binance Fan Token Platform has announced the release of Alpine Race Collectibles. Holders of the new Super Super Rare digital collectibles can enjoy unique, once in a life-time Alpine fan experiences. The launch of Alpine Race Day Collectibles follows the release of the Alpine Fan Token, which went live ... Read more

I was wrong to believe in 2020 that it would be very hard for a small group to create a system for increasing programmer productivity and iterating on the improvement of productivity-boosting software and hardware. Generative AI and Copilot are boosting programmer productivity. Improving programmers with AI and improving AI with AI is the heart ... Read more

A Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power electrodeless plasma thruster, moving us one step closer to deeper explorations into space. y, several space missions have successfully been completed using electric propulsion devices, such as gridded ion thrusters and Hall thrusters. Solar power is converted into thrust energy when the propellant becomes ... Read more

Germany, Frankfurt, 31st March, 2023, Chainwire BetFury has announced Fury Games Legacy, a 21-day adventure for intrepid players. From March 29, users of the online casino can play games and join exciting activities with magical crypto rewards. Participants in Fury Games Legacy have an opportunity to share in the $1 million prize pool and try ... Read more

There are some self-driving trucks on the road by widescale deployment still seems to be 3-5 years away. There are publically traded self-driving truck technology such as Aurora Innovation (AUR), Embark Technology (EMBK) and TuSimple (TSP). Privately held self driving truck companies are like Gatik, Plus, Torc Robotics and Kodiak Robotics. Gatik specializes in shorter ... Read more

AlphaFold accelerates artificial intelligence powered drug discovery: efficient discovery of a novel CDK20 small molecule inhibitor”) has applied AlphaFold to an end-to-end AI-powered drug discovery platform (Pharma.AI) that includes a biocomputational engine (PandaOmics) and a generative chemistry platform (Chemistry42), to identify a new drug for a novel target for the treatment of the most common ... Read more

Sanctuary AI has about $100 million in funding and has deployed its humanoid bot to commercial stores to perform over 120 retail tasks. Sanctuary AI has some superior capabilities like handling mailing labels and ziploc bags. If I were Tesla, I would buy SanctuaryAI now. If not then Amazon will. Amazon has about one million ... Read more

The CEO of Runway.com, Siqi Chen, has tweeted that OpenAI should release GPT5 and it should be at artificial general intelligence level. Runway.com has Series C funding and has total funding of about $96 million. Siqi has had an impressive technology executive and machine learning startup career. Runway is an applied AI research company that ... Read more

There is a lot of reports that Ray Kurzweil predicted immortality will be achieved by 2030. Here is the section of the September, 2022 interview with Lex Fridman where Ray talked about Longevity Escape velocity starting around 2030. His belief is based upon going all in with rapidly improving AI to speed the advance of ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, 30th March, 2023, Chainwire Core is a novel layer one blockchain that is pushing the boundaries within the crypto space. Inspired by Bitcoin and Ethereum, Core progresses beyond those blockchain behemoths by synthesizing each of their superpowers. A student of blockchain history, philosophy, and innovation, Core optimally balances decentralization, security, and scalability. Without ... Read more

Cerebras open sources seven GPT-3 models from 111 million to 13 billion parameters. Trained using the Chinchilla formula, these models set new benchmarks for accuracy and compute efficiency. Cerebras makes wafer scale computer chips. Cerebras-GPT has faster training times, lower training costs, and consumes less energy than any publicly available model to date. All models ... Read more

It is not common but there are pictures and video of Russian and Ukrainian military mixing in WW1 and WW2 era guns and helmets. Some of the Russian (or Russian allied) soldiers are being issued WW2 era helmets and AK-74 assault rifles and even some bolt action guns like the M1891. The Mosin–Nagant is a ... Read more

London, UK, 29th March, 2023, Chainwire Metacade, one of the most exciting GameFi ventures of 2023, has now raised over $14.7m as the presale goes into its final hours. With over 90% sold, the project expects to sell out ahead of their scheduled closing time, set for Friday 31st March at 23:59 Pacific Time. Metacade’s ... Read more

All Russian tank engines are based on highly successful V-2 diesel engine designed in 1931 at the Kharkov Locomotive Plant. The Kharkov plants was destroyed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The V-84 (T-72s), V-92S2F (T-72B3s, T-90s), the UTD-20 (BMP-1s and BMP-2s), and UTD-29 (BMP-3s) are further upgrades of the engine. The V-2 is the Kalashnikov ... Read more

Earth4All, which claims to be a scientific group, has new global population projections. Their scenarios are there is global success in eliminating extreme poverty and global poverty. This would reduce family sizes in Africa and parts of Asia and result in the global population peaking around 2050 at about 8.5 billion people. Earth4All clearly has ... Read more

Elon Musk recently tweeted out on December 2nd and mentioned that the current efficiency of the Tesla semi is 1.7 kWh per mile. He also mentioned that there is a clear path to 1.6 and possibly 1.5 kWh per mile. One gallon of gas is equal to around 33.7 kilowatt hours of electricity. This means ... Read more

Github Copilot X is the future of AI-powered software development. It integrates into every part of your workflow. Context-aware conversations with your coding copilot. If you’re stuck solving a problem, ask GitHub Copilot to explain a piece of code. Bump into an error? Have GitHub Copilot fix it. It’ll even generate unit tests so you ... Read more

In the first three months of the year, SpaceX has 20 successful orbital launches. This would be more than all countries other than China or Russia have done in the past 25 years. Russia only rarely has more than 20 launches per year. 20 launches done, 70+ for rest of year https://t.co/71du2oOIAE — Elon Musk ... Read more

Ingineerix tears down Tesla’s newest Hairpin Motor and Inverter technology. It is the fourth generation engine. It has more power than the old winding motors and is easier to build with automation. It is the rear drive unit for the Model Y and Model 3. They have a new hairpin design stator. Everything about the ... Read more

SpaceX and China were roughly tied in 2022 with 61 and 62 orbital launches but SpaceX had more payload. Combined SpaceX and China were 80% of orbital launches in 2022. SpaceX is on pace to double its launches in 2023. Elon indicates that SpaceX should deliver 80% of all of the payloads in 2023. This ... Read more

Sam Altman indicates there could be a path to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). He says a true superintelligent AGI must create and accelerate new science. Sam Altman feels that bias reduction can be down for the default system but there needs to be tuneability and guidability for the users to control how they want their ... Read more

Victoria, Seychelles, 27th March, 2023, Chainwire Bitget, the largest crypto copy trading platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Space and Time (SxT), a leader in decentralized data warehousing. The partnership will enable Bitget to offer users unparalleled transparency of exchange operations with a verifiably tamperproof audit trail of data and computation. Bitget is the ... Read more

Toronto, Canada, 27th March, 2023, Chainwire ​​XCMG Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (000425.SZ), the world’s third largest construction machinery manufacturers, announced a partnership with Conflux, a leading public blockchain network, and Zen Spark Technology Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based blockchain and fintech company. The partnership aims to leverage blockchain and Web3 technologies to explore more international use ... Read more

Geordi Rose is the CEO of Sanctuary AI, which has about $100 million in funding. They have deployed humanoid robots into actual commercial retail stores under a test program. During a week-long pilot test, the store, owned by retail chain Canada Tire Corporation (CTC), saw its mechanical intern handle 110 different retail-related activities in the ... Read more

The Stanford Alpaca AI demonstrated the use of a larger and more expensive AI model to train a smaller and cheaper model. The cheaper model was as good and in come cases better than the more expensive model. The more expensive AI model generated vast amounts of better training data to improve the smaller model. ... Read more

There is more videos showing that Tesla FSD 11.3.3 is giving more zero-intervention rides in challenging urban driving conditions. The drivers who are monitoring the rides feel the car is being driven in a way where they feel comfortable and confident with the FSD system. There is still the need to improve traffic flow awareness.

Between 1985 to 2015, U.S. uranium enrichment capacity fell to nearly zero from 27.3 million Separative Work Units a year, while Russia’s Tenex became a world leader, increasing production to 26.6 million SWU a year from just 3 million in the mid-eighties. [Statement source: figures by Centrus and U.S. Energy Information Administration. However, Urenco has ... Read more

UK Space Agency announced £2.9 million of new funding for a nuclear micro-reactor by Rolls-Royce. They want nuclear power to support a future Moon base for astronauts. This follows a £249,000 study funded by the UK Space Agency in 2022. Rolls-Royce plan to have a reactor ready to send to the Moon by 2029. Scientists ... Read more

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) is requesting a $4.7 billion budget for fiscal 2024 which is up from $2.6 billion this year. They want to launch satellites for a data relay, called the Transport Layer, and a missile warning and tracking, called the Tracking Layer. SDA is responsible for rapidly developing and fielding large ... Read more

Denmark, Copenhagen, 24th March, 2023, Chainwire Narwhal Finance Secures $1M in Seed Funding Led by Animoca Ventures Narwhal Finance, the decentralized cross-market perpetual trading platform built on BNB Chain and Arbitrum, announced a $1 million seed round funding led by Animoca Ventures, with participation from Hailstone Ventures and various angel investors. Narwhal Finance empowers users ... Read more

Large language models can train smaller language models and uplevel them quickly. Stanford researchers trained Alpaca 7B, a model fine-tuned from the LLaMA 7B model on 52K instruction-following demonstrations. they used GPT 3.5 to train it. On our preliminary evaluation of single-turn instruction following, Alpaca behaves qualitatively similarly to OpenAI’s text-davinci-003, while being surprisingly small ... Read more