OpenAI software ignores explicit instruction to switch off
ChatGPT maker’s ‘most capable’ model sabotages shutdown mechanism
ChatGPT maker’s ‘most capable’ model sabotages shutdown mechanism
Prices of the electricity we use to charge
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Elon Musk eyeing massive payday after scientists discover $1,500,000,000,000 lithium deposit in US state
As if the world's richest man needed any more money...
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As if the world's richest man needed any more money...
Elon Musk eyeing massive payday after scientists discover $1,500,000,000,000 lithium deposit in US state
Elon Musk's Tesla could be set to be benefit massively after a lithium deposit suspected of being the world's largest has been discovered in the US.
Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists
"While some experts were pleased that Kennedy had supported any vaccine project, they said the May 1 announcement contravened sound scientific policy, appeared arbitrary, and raised the kinds of questions about conflicts of interest that have dogged many of President Donald Trump’s actions."
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"While some experts were pleased that Kennedy had supported any vaccine project, they said the May 1 announcement contravened sound scientific policy, appeared arbitrary, and raised the kinds of questions about conflicts of interest that have dogged many of President Donald Trump’s actions."
Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists - KFF Health News
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS said an enormous, noncompetitive flu vaccine development grant to two favored NIH leaders would ensure “transparency, effectiveness, and comprehensive preparedness.” But their vaccine is in early stages, relies on old technology, and is just one of scores of...
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This Laser Breakthrough Can Read Text on a Page From a Mile Away
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This Laser Breakthrough Can Read Text on a Page From a Mile Away
Your eyesight might be good enough to confidently read the tiny text at the optometrist from a few meters away.
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Someone trapped an LLM on inferior hardware and infused it with existential dread for the sake of art, and it's terrifying
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Someone trapped an LLM on inferior hardware and infused it with existential dread for the sake of art, and it's terrifying
Do you want an AI uprising? Because this is how you get an AI uprising.
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The satellite that will 'weigh' world's 1.5 trillion trees
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The satellite that will "weigh" world's 1.5 trillion trees
The new satellite will be able to see through clouds and forest canopies.
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AI may soon account for half of data center power use if trends persist
Fascism is a Creeping Mold that Infects our Minds
It begins to propagate quietly in the cracks — unseen, thriving on neglect. It flourishes where people look the other way. As it grows, it…
The Event Horizon Telescope's Next Feat? Multi-Color Pictures of Black Holes
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The Event Horizon Telescope's Next Feat? Multi-Color Pictures of Black Holes
Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new way to observe the radio sky at multiple frequencies, and it means we will soon be able to capture color images of supermassive black holes.
Chip companies reckon that they will deliver more compute for less power every year for sometime yet.
I reckon up to 10% is realistic.
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The people who think AI might become conscious
With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient
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I think consciousness is simply the awareness of our own uniqueness as an individual. If you build a unique AI then sure, it can evolve until it knows that there isn't anything like itself so would fit the definition.
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It is quite incredible how you can now buy extremely cheap devices for not much more than a fiver, that can do quite sophisticated things. I am experimenting at the moment with one chip the RP 2350 on a board called the Raspberry Pi Pico. Functional, Chinese versions are available for a couple of quid.
You might remember my mentioning my experiments with a Pi Pico and a GPS module configured to work as a weak signal propagation beacon. These are ongoing and I am putting together a solar powered independent version, to eventually become an off grid, self managing system. Right now, one of the two I am running is in the garden inside a tupperware box connected to two solar panels and a small lithium battery (it is actually an old phone battery) and the question is will it recover and work properly after the battery voltage drained down to about two volts overnight. The sun isn't on the panels yet, but I already know the GPS module is working, because I can see it from inside the house flashing away.
But - I digress - the cost of chips is going down to the floor and their capabilities are heading for the skies.
The other of my pico beacons in the house connected to a usb power supply, and is putting out 10 miliwatts of very low baud rate RF and sending its two packets of 20 bytes each far and wide. The antenna is a five meter long wire hanging vertically out of an upstairs window, with another five meter wire running around the floor in a spare bedroom. (Dipole antennas need two wires).
This map shows where the packets have been successfully decoded in the last hour with 25 successful complete decodes. Ten miliwatts is less than one hundredth the output of your mobile phone, and on tenth the rf power of the average wifi router, and I emphasise that this data has gone point to point via the ionosphere NOT through the telecoms network.
3.3volts, 70 mA of current to run the Pico and the GPS, and a far from ideal antenna. Square wave output taken from a GPIO pin - (GPIO21) and passed through a low pass filter to remove harmonic content and turn the square wave pulse width modulation at 14.097 Mhz, into a sine wave for radiation to the world. 14.0971 mhz is one of the spot frequencies tuned into by the world wide network of Weak Signal auyomatic radios. There are usually sbout six hundred of them listening there, ready to decode these packets down below the noise.
The originator of this project here:
It has been significantly reworked and improved since and details can be found here:
pico‐WSPRer (aka Cheapest Tracker in the World™)
Minimalist WSPR tracker for pico-balloons utilizing Raspberry Pi Pico (or Rp2040) as the RF generator (aka The Cheapest Tracker In The World™). More info: [WIKI](https://github.com/EngineerGuy314/p...
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Even that link is not entirely up to date. This project has kept me out of mischief for quite a while.
Not mine, but an example:
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That may be part of it, but consiousness is much more than awareness of our own uniqueness. I don't have time to explore this in detail now - I have an e-bike jaunt scheduled if the rain keeps off and someone is waiting for me, or very soon will be.
Higher order animals are certainly conscious to a degree. Even corvids like crows know how others think, and they act accordingly. Certainly dogs do. They are conscious but less sophisticated than humans. It is to do more with 'awareness' of the world and how an organism responds to that. It's perhaps a spectrum of different levels of consciousness, rather than a single quality or feature.
More later maybe....
Oh dear not looking good..
Boom, bang, then bust..
Northvolt gone south before making any batts!
And probably another of dem flamin diesels at JAX, mm.
Volvo leccy dies after only 4yrs
Boom, bang, then bust..
Northvolt gone south before making any batts!
And probably another of dem flamin diesels at JAX, mm.
Volvo leccy dies after only 4yrs
You really don't understand this world, do you?Taxing the Sun, that's a new one, so Green, not.
Stupidity and dishonesty off the scale, Ha!
It's just a tax on energy usage, just like those we pay on petrol, diesel and electricity, government income has to come from somewhere.
Solar panel energy in this instance is just the latest.
One day it will be the temperature differential energy that heat pumps take from the air or ground, once there's enough of them installed to fall victim. After all, we already pay some tax on the electricity that runs our fridges and freezers and they are just heat pumps running in reverse mode.
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