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SpaceX described the plan for the Starship orbital test. This will be the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket, a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon, and travel to Mars and beyond. With a test ... Read more

Felix at What About It reports that the FAA advisory notice has April 17 as the primary launch date for the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy orbital launch attempt. There are back dates from April 18-21. If the final approvals come in as expected and SpaceX goes on schedule it will be morning launch on Monday. ... Read more

China is expected to add 95 to 120 gigawatts (GW) of solar power in 2023. China added 87 GW of new solar power into operation in 2022 making the total installed capacity to 392.6 GW at the end of 2022. China probably already added 30-40 GW in 2023 to bring its total installed solar to ... Read more

Tesla has committed over $10 billion for Semi truck factories, megapack factories for megacharging and for the research and development of Semi trucks. Tesla is targeting the production of 50,000 Semi trucks in 2024. Daimler Trucks owns Freightliner and makes over 500,000 large trucks every year. Daimler has about $1 billion in research and development ... Read more

Potomac Falls, United States, April 11th, 2023, Chainwire Ash Environmental DAO has announced the dates of its token sale. The event will run from April 17 to May 7, giving participants the chance to purchase the Ash token and become part of a global ecosystem committed to funding high-impact innovations to address real-world challenges. The ... Read more

The lithium-air battery has the highest projected energy density of any battery technology being considered for the next generation of batteries beyond lithium-ion. The Argonne Lab team’s lithium-air design is the first lithium-air battery that has achieved a four-electron reaction at room temperature. It also operates with oxygen supplied by air from the surrounding environment. ... Read more

Purdue researchers have demonstrated that low concentration ether-based electrolyte can successfully endure the long-term high voltage (4.3 V) operation of practical LMB (lithium Metal Battery) under industry viable configurations, when using the highly nonpolar dipropyl ether as the electrolyte solvent. From the perspective of fundamental research on new LMB technologies, it is critical to meticulously develop ... Read more

CALB, a Chinese battery manufacturer China Aviation Lithium Battery, claims its “U-type” battery structure offers higher energy density and faster charging speeds than regular cylindrical cells like the Tesla 4680. CALB has a 4% global market share for batteries in 2022. This places them seventh among the biggest Li-Ion cell manufacturers. CALB introduced a new ... Read more

Stanford Researchers have used Generative AI to simulate believable human behavior in a simulated world. Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate conversations; they remember and reflect on days past as they plan the next day. To enable generative ... Read more

Tesla Master Plan 3 analyzes the total world demand for megapack factory capacity will be 2.3 TWh/year which is equal to about sixty 40 GWh/year Lathrop Megapack factories. This would be about 600,000 3.9 MWh megapacks each year. Tesla is completed last year and will have the Lathrop megapack factory ramped this year. Tesla just ... Read more

China’s PLA’s Eastern Theater Command announced the end of a large military exercise today. Taiwan’s R.O.C. Armed Forces will continue to keep a close watch on PLA’s movements 24/7 and act accordingly. On Monday, China’s Navy had 11 ships and 70 PLA aircraft near Taiwan and about 35 of the planes crossed the median line ... Read more

Goldman Sachs has an analysis that ChatGPT and other generative AI could spark a productivity boom that could automate 25% of jobs in North America and Europe and raise annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period. The new AI could lift productivity growth by 1.5 percentage points over a 10-year period. This is ... Read more

New York, US, April 10th, 2023, Chainwire Babylon x NYC, an exhibition of more than 100 physical and digital artworks, will take place in New York City on April 12-13, 2023. The exhibition, set up by Babylon — a Web3 gallery specializing in primary sales of NFT editions — will showcase works by the project’s ... Read more

Tesla announced a new megapack factory in Shanghai. Nextbigfuture has noted that the large electric truck market is about five times bigger in China than in the USA. Megapacks are needed to buffer the grid for megacharging for large electric trucks. I think this is the first step to getting Semi trucks into China and ... Read more

Vicuna is a new, powerful model based on LLaMa, and trained with GPT-4. Vicuna boasts “90%* quality of OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Bard”. This is unseen quality and performance, all on your computer and offline. Oobabooga is a UI for running Large Language Models for Vicuna and many other models like LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, Pythia, ... Read more

There are six major AI projects in the race beyond 2 trillion parameter models. There is OpenAI, Anthropic, Google/Deepmind, Meta, a UK government project and a stealth project. It takes $1-2 billion per year of resources to be in the game. There is $1 billion needed for hardware and that hardware will need to be ... Read more

Sebastien Bubeck makes the case that intelligence has emerged with the trillion parameter generative AIs. He says there are internal representations and learning algorithms inside the systems. Sebastien is a Sr. Principal Research Manager in the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research (MSR). He says the generative systems can be used to explain itself. ... Read more

There are many electric car and truck analysts who project Tesla only capturing 20% of the electric Semi truck market and pickup truck market, SUV, Bus and Van markets. Tesla provided their estimate of the scale of those markets in their detailed Master Plan part 3. Electric trucks and vans will take making a large ... Read more

Elon Musk says Starship is stacked and ready to launch next week, pending regulatory approval. SpaceX says there is a wet rehearsal this coming week and then there will be the need to destack and arm for the real launch. Booster 7 will land in the Gulf of Mexico and will simulate a chopstick Mechazilla ... Read more

Vicuna-13B, an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT. Preliminary evaluation using GPT-4 as a judge shows Vicuna-13B achieves more than 90%* quality of OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Bard while outperforming other models like LLaMA and Stanford Alpaca in more than 90%* of cases. The cost of training Vicuna-13B is ... Read more

A slightly improved Reflexion-based GPT-4 agent achieves state-of-the-art pass@1 results (88%) on HumanEval, outperforming GPT-4 (67.0%) and CodeT: Code Generation with Generated Tests (65.8%), which were the previous state-of-the-art standards. Relaxing Success Evaluation By using Reflexion to iteratively refine the current implementation, researchers are shifting the “accuracy bottleneck” from correct syntactic and semantic code generation ... Read more

The current best large language models that you can install on your computers are GPT4ALL and the Cerebus open-source models. There are several videos that guide you through the installation of the models. Some of the open-source AI models have all of the code in one place and others require you to put the pieces ... Read more

An online survey of 1000 business leaders suggest that ChatGPT and AI systems will often be involved in the future interview process after companies use the AI to remove workers from some jobs in codewriting, customer support, research and content creation. The level of employment impact is still small as commpanies also got rid of ... Read more

Tesla published a Master Plan Part 3 and they talk about sales of Cybertruck class vehicles with Model S/X reaching 9 million per year and a total global fleet of 149 million. Model S/X are about 50% of their category. Electric large Sedans and SUVs will cap out at about a global fleet of about ... Read more

In Emergent abilities of large language models, emergent ability are defined as an ability that is “not present in small models but is present in large models.” Is emergence a rare phenomena, or are many tasks actually emergent? It turns out that there are more than 100 examples of emergent abilities that already been empirically ... Read more

Central, Singapore, April 6th, 2023, Chainwire HeartX, a Web3.0 art trading marketplace and community platform, is set to change the game for the art market. The team just announced their pre-launch Vote-to-Earn Game is live now. This new experience allows users to earn tokens ($HNX) through voting on artwork pieces by swiping right or left ... Read more

Tesla published a 41 page Master Plan Part 3. This gives all of Tesla estimates of how many vehicles and types and energy storage and other costs and materials needed for full electrification of the world.

SpaceX has found its second partner for their upcoming Starlink-enabled direct satellite-to-cellular service. New Zealand’s telecommunications company, One NZ (formerly known as Vodafone), has announced it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to offer mobile coverage across the country, eliminating cellular dead zones. SpaceX announced the direct satellite-to-cellular service with T-mobile. T-Mobile has more than ... Read more

Here is a timeline of open and proprietary large language models.

Alpaca Turbo is a ChatGPT-like interface for all of your local models. This UI looks and behaves just like ChatGPT. The authors of Alpaca Turbo have been active iron out the bugs and are very active in their Discord. Here is the Github for Alpaca Turbo.

OpenAI’s new GPT-4 api to ‘chat’ with a 56-page PDF document based on a real supreme court legal case. OpenAI recently announced GPT-4 (it’s most powerful AI) that can process up to 25,000 words – about eight times as many as GPT-3 – process images and handle much more nuanced instructions than GPT-3.5. You’ll learn ... Read more

Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, autonomously develops and manages businesses to increase net worth. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI. There are some people experimenting with ... Read more

Bob Lee, Cash App founder and chief product officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, was killed in a San Francisco stabbing. San Francisco allows crime to go unchecked and now Bobs daughters have to grow up with no father pic.twitter.com/FhIypmlHGk — Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) April 5, 2023 MMA fighter Jake Shields posed I just found out ... Read more

We are in a special moment in history where rule-based processes get replaced by powerful AI systems. At the center of this paradigm shift are Large Language Models (LLMs), vector databa\ses like Pinecone, and the LangChain library. In this online workshop, we’ll explore the tools behind this new wave of technology and how to wield ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, April 5th, 2023, Chainwire SubQuery, the universal web3 data indexing toolkit, takes a significant step forward with today’s announcement of beta support for Ethereum. Despite being a beta release, SubQuery has already proven to be faster than The Graph, offering Ethereum developers another decentralised alternative upon the impending launch of the SubQuery Network. ... Read more

X-Tesla AI-Lead shows how to makeGeneratively Pretrained Transformer (GPT). He followed the paper “Attention is All You Need” and OpenAI’s GPT-2 / GPT-3. He talk about connections to ChatGPT, which has taken the world by storm. We also watch GitHub Copilot, itself a GPT, help us write a GPT. Watch the makemore videos to get ... Read more

There are reports (rumors) from China that Tesla is planning a next generation low-priced high volume car with initial production capacity of 4 million vehicles. 36 Krypton learned from several industry insiders that Tesla is planning a grand production capacity map for its new low-priced models. 　　“This low-priced model is a small Model Y.” The ... Read more

Futuretools.io is keeping track of the new AI tools. Codeium Codeium is a programming superpower that enables developers to quickly make changes to unfamiliar languages and codebases using natural language. It also helps minimize boilerplate coding, find and use APIs, and generate unit tests. It supports Python, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and Regex. LeiaPix LeiaPix Converterenables ... Read more

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