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FuturologyBot t1_jdvpsdz wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/filosoful:
The math behind making a star-encompassing megastructure
In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization would someday quit fooling around with kindergarten-level stuff like wind turbines and nuclear reactors and finally go big, completely enclosing their home star to capture as much solar energy as they possibly could.
They would then go on to use that enormous amount of energy to mine bitcoin, make funny videos on social media, delve into the deepest mysteries of the Universe, and enjoy the bounties of their energy-rich civilization.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdvl6bs wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/BousWakebo:
The glycocalyx is developed with high levels of cell-surface mucins, which are thought to help protect the cancer cell from immune cell attack. However, up to now, there has been limited understanding of this barrier particularly as it relates to cell-based cancer immunotherapies.
These types of treatments involve removing immune cells from a patient, modifying them to seek and destroy cancer, and then putting them back into the patient’s body.
“We found that changes in the thickness of the barrier that were as small as 10 nanometers could affect the antitumor activity of our immune cells or the engineered cells used for immunotherapy,” said Sangwoo Park, a graduate student in Matthew Paszek’s Lab at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdqhmvu wrote
Reply to Artificial intelligence could help hunt for life on Mars and other alien worlds by Gari_305
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
From the Article
>A newly developed machine-learning tool could help scientists search for signs of life on Mars and other alien worlds.
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>With the ability to collect samples from other planets severely limited, scientists currently have to rely on remote sensing methods to hunt for signs of alien life. That means any method that could help direct or refine this search would be incredibly useful.
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>With this in mind, a multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Kim Warren-Rhodes of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California mapped the sparse lifeforms that dwell in salt domes, rocks and crystals in the Salar de Pajonales, a salt flat on the boundary of the Chilean Atacama Desert and Altiplano, or high plateau.
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Reply to Nvidia Speeds Key Chipmaking Computation by 40x by Vucea
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Vucea:
Inverse lithography produces features smaller than the wavelength of light, but it usually takes weeks to compute
Nvidia says it has found a way to speed up a computation-limited step in the chipmaking process so that it happens 40 times as fast as today’s standard.
Called inverse lithography, it’s a key tool that allows chipmakers to print nanometer-scale features using light with a longer wavelength than the size of those features. Inverse lithography’s use has been limited by the massive size of the needed computation.
Nvidia’s answer, cuLitho, is a set of algorithms designed for use with GPUs, turns what has been two weeks of work into an overnight job.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdovac7 wrote
Reply to You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills - Yuval Harari on threats to humanity posed by AI by izumi3682
The following submission statement was provided by /u/izumi3682:
Submission statement from OP. Note: This submission statement "locks in" after about 30 minutes and can no longer be edited. Please refer to my statement they link, which I can continue to edit. I often edit my submission statement, sometimes for the next few days if needs must. There is often required additional grammatical editing and additional added detail.
From the article.
>Imagine that as you are boarding an airplane, half the engineers who built it tell you there is a 10 percent chance the plane will crash, killing you and everyone else on it. Would you still board?
>In 2022, over 700 top academics and researchers behind the leading artificial intelligence companies were asked in a survey about future A.I. risk. Half of those surveyed stated that there was a 10 percent or greater chance of human extinction (or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment) from future A.I. systems. Technology companies building today’s large language models are caught in a race to put all of humanity on that plane.
And.
>For thousands of years, we humans have lived inside the dreams of other humans. We have worshiped gods, pursued ideals of beauty and dedicated our lives to causes that originated in the imagination of some prophet, poet or politician. Soon we will also find ourselves living inside the hallucinations of nonhuman intelligence.
This man can write. But I wrote some warnings my ownself starting back in 2017...
I like to use the analogy of an approaching tornado or tsunami to describe the impact and effects of exponentially ever more powerful AI on human civilization on Earth. For such a long time 2016 to 2022, it looked so far away but dreamlike and mesmerizing in its affect.
Today it is upon us. Yes, just like that. I just had Chatgpt look at a highly sophisticated abstract concerning the phyics of solar wind impact on geomagnetics, cuz i wanted to see if we were gonna see the Northern Lights here in the Twin Cities (MN) tonight. First I typed can you understand the following abstract. And it said, provide me the abstract. So i copy/pasta the abstract. In a fraction of second, probably less than a quarter of a second, it came back with yes, I understand this. Then it paraphrased it in similar highly technical prose. Then I typed, because I was not going to take a chance that I could not understand a HS grad equivalent explanation, explain this abstract in a manner that would be appropriate to a 6th grader. And then I fully understood what the abstract meant.
"What hath God wrought?" That was the first message sent by telegraph in the USA. What indeed hath God wrought for humanity with our shiny new AIs. I'm thinking we need to slow it down now too. But I think that is now a physical impossibility. It is already too entwined in everything electronic, especially national defense. That of the USA, China and Russia and more than likely, everybody else.
We are now at the point where we can no longer predict with certainty what our civilization will look like one from today. That is the impact of this AI ascendence. I was sounding the warning as far back as 2017, but everybody regarded me as well, "somewhat hyperbolic". The less kind said I was detached from reality. It was "not how AI worked."
At any rate, the time for warning is over. The time for attempting to adapt has begun. I hope it all goes well for us. I hope we have enough "alignment" philosophy inculcated in GPT-4 and whatever on Earth "GPT-5" is gonna be.
I had predicted that the 'technological singularity" would likely occur about the year 2029, but we know today that in probably less than three years now, something very much akin to ASI, that is "artificial super intelligence" is going to exist. And ASI=TS. I don't know how we can control this. All of the AI experts are either stunned or attempting to smooth over what is coming. I posted several of these already. They are not reassuring.
Anyway, about every three months now there will be "significant" improvement in our AI efforts. I guess I'm just along for the ride at this point. I hope we can get something like UBI or post-scarcity for our citizens. Because buckle your seatbelts, it's gonna be a (crazy/insane/unimaginable) bumpy decade from here on out.
I'm Catholic. I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ returns today. The Second Coming. If not and we make it thru these next couple of years. Yes--Next. Couple. Of. Years. That it may have been God's Will that the TS occurred and that we will be on the "next level". And capable of receiving new revelations that would not be possible to comprehend prior to the TS.
Do you think I'm too hyperbolic?
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Reply to ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like. New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us. - MIT technology review by HorrorCharacter5127
The following submission statement was provided by /u/HorrorCharacter5127:
Submission statement
Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an artificial-intelligence gold rush has started over the last several months to mine the anticipated business opportunities from generative AI models like ChatGPT. App developers, venture-backed startups, and some of the world’s largest corporations are all scrambling to make sense of the sensational text-generating bot released by OpenAI last November.
You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world: “What is our ChatGPT play? How do we make money off this?”
But while companies and executives see a clear chance to cash in, the likely impact of the technology on workers and the economy on the whole is far less obvious. Despite their limitations—chief among of them their propensity for making stuff up—ChatGPT and other recently released generative AI models hold the promise of automating all sorts of tasks that were previously thought to be solely in the realm of human creativity and reasoning, from writing to creating graphics to summarizing and analyzing data. That has left economists unsure how jobs and overall productivity might be affected.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdmz6oz wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/stesch:
Submission Statement: “Hydrogen (H₂) is expected to play a crucial role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, hydrogen losses to the atmosphere impact atmospheric chemistry, including positive feedback on methane (CH4), the second most important greenhouse gas.”
With more and more governments subsidizing hydrogen production, we need to really be certain it won't cause more problems than it will solve.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdkzvm6 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/yh5203:
Submission Statement:
A cheating scandal erupted in Asian board game of Go in December, raising questions on regulating AI in the field of sport. Moreover, the story of how AI had completely changed the Go world in the past 7 years is a preview of the disruption that AI like GPT will bring on a global scale.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdjfxbl wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/ObtainSustainability:
Fremont, California-based Amprius announced it has verified the performance of its silicon anode battery cells with third-party tester Mobile Power Solutions. The results indicate that this cell model provides 504 Wh per kg and 1321 Wh per L at 25 degrees C.
Amprius said the silicon anode cell is roughly half the weight and volume of leading conventional commercially available lithium-ion cells.
The cells have applications in the fast-growing electric aviation space and could later be integrated with electric vehicles. Together, electric aviation and light-duty EV battery demand is estimated to exceed over $100 billion globally by 2025, said the company.
The Amprius cells offer a run time of 200% compared to leading graphite battery cells, while being lighter and smaller than other batteries with the same energy content.
“...technology that will ultimately revolutionize how high we fly, how far we travel and how long we can use our devices,” said Jon Bornstein, president of Amprius Labs.
The battery cells are planned to be integrated with the AALTO Zephyr, a high-altitude platform station (HAPS). The solar-electric telecommunications aircraft offers persistent earth observation with 18cm ground sampling distance, near-real-time video and imagery from the stratosphere, day and night.
Amprius operates a research and development laboratory in Fremont, California. It recently signed a letter of intent for a 774,000 square foot facility in Brighton, Colorado that would provide up to 5 GWh of manufacturing capacity.
The Department of Energy (DOE) targets improvements in battery performance to stabilize the critical materials supply chain and offer attractive products to vehicle buyers. “While a number of electric drive vehicles are available on the market, further improvements in batteries could make them more affordable and convenient to consumers,” according to the DOE.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdj86fm wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/nastratin:
>My fellow IPCC authors and I have spent years combing through the evidence, and have found that there are things we can do right now across all areas of life—including the basic choices you and I make every day—that can cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2030.
>That’s the short-term target required to keep us on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius—the global target outlined in the Paris Agreement—which science has a identified as a key threshold to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
>Many of these solutions will result in cleaner air and more jobs, but can also save money for governments, businesses and consumers.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdirg7p wrote
Reply to An ESA advisory committee has recommended Europe should independently develop its own space station when the ISS retires, and develop its own lunar base independently of NASA's Artemis plans. by lughnasadh
The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:
Submission Statement
"Europe should design and implement a European Space Mission to establish an independent European presence in Earth orbit, lunar orbit, on the Moon, and beyond, including a European Commercial LEO Station, Cargo and Crew Capabilities for the Gateway and the Moon, and sustained presence on the lunar surface."
It's worth noting although this comes from ESA's own self-appointed advisory group, we don't know how much of its recommendations will be followed. However, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher has been talking lately about the need for big changes at ESA.
The full report is a 21 page PDF, available here.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdfsg93 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/matt2001:
>Researchers at Stanford University have taken down their short-lived chatbot that harnessed Meta’s LLaMA AI, nicknamed Alpaca AI. The researchers launched Alpaca with a public demo anyone could try last week, but quickly took the model offline thanks to rising costs, safety concerns, and “hallucinations,” which is the word the AI community has settled on for when a chatbot confidently states misinformation, dreaming up a fact that doesn’t exist.
I hope this can be addressed, as it will be able to run on smaller computers.
>Despite its apparent failures, Alpaca has some exciting facets that make the research project interesting. Its low upfront costs are particularly notable. The researchers spent just $600 to get it working, and reportedly ran the AI using low-power machines, including Raspberry Pi computers and even a Pixel 6 smartphone, in contrast to Microsoft’s multimillion-dollar supercomputers.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdf7sbf wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Just-A-Lucky-Guy:
Submission statement
> The article announces that ChatGPT, a neural network-based system for generating natural language text, can now use Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language to perform computations and access factual data. The author calls this capability “Wolfram superpowers” and shows some examples of how ChatGPT can answer questions and generate visualizations using these tools. The author also explains some of the technical challenges and opportunities involved in connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language. He argues that this integration can make ChatGPT more powerful, useful, and trustworthy as a conversational agent. He also speculates about the future possibilities of “ChatGPT + Wolfram” as a platform for creating intelligent applications.
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FuturologyBot t1_jderddx wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Hanzo_The_Ninja:
About four months ago news about a breakthrough wormhole simulation made the news, however as per this submission a recent analysis of the data suggests it may have been misinterpretted:
> Now another group of physicists has analyzed the result and determined that, while the experiment may have produced something vaguely wormhole-like, it wasn’t really a holographic wormhole in any meaningful sense. In light of the new analysis, independent researchers are coming to doubt that the teleportation experiment has anything to do with gravity after all.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdcyxn8 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/nastratin:
In California, every driver involved in the testing of autonomous technology has to be registered. Every vehicle involved in testing has to be registered as well with the DMV and has to have a special permit to drive on public roads.
Thanks to those regulations, we now know that Apple’s autonomous driving dream has reached impressive size. The company increased the number of test drivers to 201 while its fleet of test vehicles remains at 67.
It is clear that over the years Project Titan evolved into three separate programs. While the autonomous car has been on and off the drawing board many times over, autonomous driving technology took its own course. Apple can easily leverage its expertise in hardware and software to develop advanced self-driving tech and it aims to achieve it before its rivals.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdc96a3 wrote
Reply to New 'biohybrid' implant will restore function in paralyzed limbs | "This interface could revolutionize the way we interact with technology." by chrisdh79
The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:
From the article: Researchers from the University of Cambridge have created a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function in paralyzed limbs.
The developed device works in sync between the brain and paralyzed limbs - it combines flexible electronics and human stem cells to "better integrate" with the nerve and drive limb function, according to a press release.
There have been former attempts at using neural implants to restore limb function, but these mostly failed. This is because scar tissue can envelop the electrodes over time, disrupting the connection between the device and the nerve.
"If someone has an arm or a leg amputated, for example, all the signals in the nervous system are still there, even though the physical limb is gone,” said Dr. Damiano Barone from Cambridge’s Department of Clinical Neurosciences, who co-led the research, said in a statement. "The challenge with integrating artificial limbs, or restoring function to arms or legs, is extracting the information from the nerve and getting it to the limb so that function is restored."
The researchers combined cell therapy and bioelectronics into a single device, improving functionality and sensitivity.
In this case, they sandwiched a layer of muscle cells that were reprogrammed from stem cells between the electrodes and the living tissue. This led to device integration with the host's body, preventing the formation of scar tissue. For the time time, the cells survived on the electrode for 28 days - the duration of the experiment.
First, the researchers designed a biocompatible flexible electronic device thin enough to be attached to the end of a nerve. According to the release, a layer of stem cells, reprogrammed into muscle cells, was then placed on the electrode.
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FuturologyBot t1_jd94kd3 wrote
Reply to Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
The following submission statement was provided by /u/filosoful:
The US is pouring more money into electric vehicle infrastructure and rebates, but safety and affordability could be behind the gender gap between men and women owners.
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FuturologyBot t1_jd8djbb wrote
Reply to Huawei Spent Almost $24 Billion on R&D in 2023 to Deal With US Tech Sanctions, Founder Says by tomato-is-vegetable
The following submission statement was provided by /u/tomato-is-vegetable:
This has got plusses and minuses. It's good to see more money poured in to AI development, but in this case it was because of sanctions, and the world economy becoming split is detrimental to ordinary people. The sanctions may cause money to be wasted on redundant R&D that reduplicates effort elsewhere. Still, I bet Huawei made some great progress with their $24 billion.
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FuturologyBot t1_jd85q9b wrote
Reply to Persuasive piece by Robert Wright. Worrying about the rapid advancement of AI no longer makes you a kook. by OpenlyFallible
The following submission statement was provided by /u/OpenlyFallible:
Submisson statement - The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses a range of dangers that require attention. One significant danger is that AI systems may perpetuate or even amplify biases and prejudices that exist in society, leading to discriminatory outcomes. Another risk is the potential loss of jobs as AI systems become increasingly capable of performing tasks previously performed by humans. Additionally, there is a risk of accidents or errors caused by the complexity of AI systems, which could lead to catastrophic consequences. Finally, the deployment of autonomous weapons systems using AI could lead to unpredictable and uncontrollable behavior with potentially devastating effects. These risks highlight the need for careful consideration of the development and deployment of AI systems, including ethical and regulatory frameworks to minimize the risks and ensure their responsible use.
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FuturologyBot t1_jd841r7 wrote
Reply to IPCC chart says Solar PV and Wind Turbines are best way to achieve Deep, Rapid, and Low Cost emission cuts before 2030. by DisasterousGiraffe
The following submission statement was provided by /u/DisasterousGiraffe:
"Solar, according to the IPCC report, can deliver more emission cuts than any other technology by 2030, when the world needs to have cut its emissions by at least half if it is to have any chance of capping average global warming at 1.5°C. Solar and wind together offer nearly ten times the emission cut potential than nuclear, and 20 times that of carbon capture."
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FuturologyBot t1_jd7v6vq wrote
Reply to Mobile Nanogrids Can Provide Electricity, Clean Water During a Disaster. A single Nanogrid from Sesame Solar can power up to six homes. by Sariel007
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Sariel007:
>When natural disasters strike, one of the first crucial resources that can get disrupted is electricity. Startup Sesame Solar thinks it's found a solution to providing power for emergency crews and displaced residents with its mobile Nanogrids.
>At first glance, a Nanogrid may look like a food truck. It's designed to be hauled the same way you'd transport a moving trailer. But once deployed, the solar panels that line the Nanogrid are revealed. The panels charge the onboard batteries, and the company says a single Nanogrid can produce anywhere from 3 to 20 kilowatts. That's enough to power four to six houses.
> Lauren Flanagan, Sesame's co-founder and CEO, calls the Nanogrid the world's first 100% renewably powered mobile system. "You don't need fossil fuel. You don't need diesel or natural gas. Just water and sunshine," she said. Watch the video above to learn more about how the Nanogrids work.
>In addition to solar power, the Nanogrids are equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell that turns water into hydrogen. The hydrogen can be stored in tanks and used to charge the batteries when they dip below 35%. Nanogrids also have an onboard water filtration system that can provide up to 500 liters of potable water per day, and a 5G mesh network so people displaced in a disaster can get online.
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FuturologyBot t1_jd7hdl0 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/mancinedinburgh:
A new analysis of data from the last 40 years suggests there may be water hiding beneath the frozen surfaces of two of Uranus’ moons. Why is that significant? They are the latest two celestial bodies in our solar system which would potential hosts of life. Who knows - it could be a useful refuelling outpost/staging point for human missions explorations into deep space in the centuries to come.
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FuturologyBot t1_jd79wtg wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/TurretLauncher:
> Engineers at Columbia University unveiled this world's first [3D-printed cheesecake] Tuesday, made by the technology meticulously layering seven edible inks to form a triangular shape.
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> The team has not shared how the cheesecake tastes, only that it is vegan, but notes the experiment is to demonstrate how 3D printing will upheave the food assembly industry.
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> The authors note that the precision printing of multi-layered food items could produce more customizable foods, improve food safety and enable users to control the nutrient content of meals more easily - and in less time.
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FuturologyBot t1_jd32o5k wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/RushingRobotics_com:
Recent advancements in AI research such as the emergence of ToM-like abilities in language models, suggest that we are making progress towards AGI (artificial general intelligence). Emergent abilities are a fascinating aspect of complex systems like LLMs and the development of ToM-like abilities in language models is a remarkable achievement. The ability to understand and attribute mental states to oneself and others has long been considered a uniquely human ability, so the emergence of ToM-like abilities in language models is a significant breakthrough.
The increasing language skills of language models may have led to the emergence of ToM-like abilities, demonstrating the potential for artificial intelligence to possess human-like cognitive abilities.
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FuturologyBot t1_jdx9rqo wrote
Reply to The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return by Vucea
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Vucea:
Once we emit about 1000 gigatons of carbon, much of the massive ice sheet will melt irreversibly. We’ve emitted 500 gigatons so far.
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers (660,200 square miles) in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but scientists aren’t sure how quickly the ice sheet could melt. Modeling tipping points, which are critical thresholds where a system behavior irreversibly changes, helps researchers find out when that melt might occur.
Based in part on carbon emissions, a new study using simulations identified two tipping points for the Greenland Ice Sheet: releasing 1000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere will cause the southern portion of the ice sheet to melt; about 2500 gigatons of carbon means permanent loss of nearly the entire ice sheet.
Having emitted about 500 gigatons of carbon, we’re about halfway to the first tipping point.
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