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WEB4 days ago · This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 14) Singularity Hub Staff - September 14, 2024.
Boxabl Foldable Houses: Affordable Housing Solution - Singularity …
WEBJul 29, 2021 · Boxabl estimates these costs could range from $5,000 on the low end up to $50,000, depending on location and complexity of the site. The land you put the house on is a separate cost too, and would obviously vary widely based on location. Boxabl will soon open a new factory in Las Vegas that will be able to produce one house every 90 minutes ...
A Hybrid AI Just Beat Eight World Champions at Bridge—and …
WEBApr 3, 2022 · To play bridge, maybe the most challenging card or board game yet tackled by AI, the NukkAI team combined deep reinforcement learning with symbolic AI, an approach famously used by IBM’s Deep Blue to defeat Garry Kasparov at chess in the 90s. Deep reinforcement learning algorithms are made up of a …
The Promise—and Complications—of Domestic Robots
WEBDec 6, 2018 · The Promise—and Complications—of Domestic Robots. Every year, for just a few days in a major city, a small team of roboticists get to live the dream: ordering around their own personal robot butlers. In carefully-constructed replicas of a restaurant scene or a domestic setting, these robots perform any number of simple algorithmic tasks.
AI Models Scaled Up 10,000x Are Possible by 2030, Report Says
WEBAug 29, 2024 · AI Models Scaled Up 10,000x Are Possible by 2030, Report Says. By Jason Dorrier. August 29, 2024. Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale. Around the beginning of this decade, AI labs noticed that making their algorithms—or models—ever bigger and feeding them more data consistently led to enormous improvements in what ...
Nanorobots: Where We Are Today and Why Their Future Has …
WEBMay 16, 2016 · The new nano-engines could lead to nanorobots small enough to enter living cells to fight disease, the researchers say. Professor Jeremy Baumberg from the Cavendish Laboratory, who led the research, has named the devices ‘actuating nanotransducers’ (ANTs). ‘Like real ants, they produce …
Thinking Like a Human: What It Means to Give AI a Theory of Mind
WEBSep 19, 2018 · Last month, a team of self-taught AI gamers lost spectacularly against human professionals in a highly-anticipated galactic melee. Taking place as part of the International Dota 2 Championships in Vancouver, Canada, the game showed that in broader strategic thinking and collaboration, humans still remain on top.. The AI was a series of algorithms developed by the Elon Musk-backed non-profit ...
How a Memory Quirk of the Human Brain Can Galvanize AI
WEBSep 28, 2020 · Meeting of Minds. These results are hardly the first to tap into the brain’s memory prowess. Previously, AI researchers have also tuned into a separate memory process called metaplasticity, which alters how likely a neural network is to be vulnerable to change. Because memories are stored in a neural …
Earth Will Soon Have a Black Box to Chronicle Humanity's Downfall
WEBDec 9, 2021 · If the world as we know it comes to an end (maybe even starting with an earthquake, birds and snakes and airplanes), future generations will have access to a vault containing duplicates of seed samples from the world’s crop collections, a frozen Noah’s Ark of animal DNA to bring species back from extinction, and if a new initiative pans out as intended, a black box to record how it all ...
How Many Galaxies Are There in the Universe | Singularity Hub
WEBJan 15, 2021 · Added to existing Hubble observations, their results suggested such galaxies make up 90 percent of the total, leading to a new estimate—that there may be up to two trillion galaxies in the universe. Such estimates, however, are a moving target. As more observations roll in, scientists can get a better handle on the variables at play and ...