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FuturologyBot t1_j9ahrv4 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Ok-Cartoonist5349:
A recent study published by Sortlist revealed that 1 out of 5 ChatGPT users are worried it could replace them and/or destroy their job. Meanwhile, more and more articles try to explain that, depite being really powerful, ChatGPT could never replace human workers - but it could greatly improve their productivity.
And what about all the opportunities it might create in the near future? This article looks at data labeling, or prompt engineering for instance, but there might be a lot of other options! What do you think?
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FuturologyBot t1_j973vaf wrote
Reply to MIT researchers makes self-drive car AI significantly more accurate: “Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability by lughnasadh
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The AI behind self-driving cars could do with a boost. Although some developers are touting Level 5 autonomy "soon", it seems to have been that way for a while. In reality, Level 4 is about the most anyone has advanced to with a commercial product. That's good for set predetermined routes, but the promise of Level 5 is "door-to-door" autonomy.
This seems like quite a fundamental breakthrough. It's interesting to wonder when it will be first commercialized.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8zhb2w wrote
Reply to Nissan LEAF EVs will power evacuation centers in Japan when disaster strikes by OvermoderatedNet
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This may be a hot take, but as long as they aren't overused and therefore don't interfere with walkable cities modern/electric vehicles have the potential to be really good for humanity. What else can act as not only transportation but shelter, backup battery, and increasingly even media center/AI companion?
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FuturologyBot t1_j8sk7ht wrote
Reply to NASA will fund a feasibility study of a space-based Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER): Detecting and Characterizing All Earth-Like Exoplanets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars Within 10 parsecs (30 light-years). by lughnasadh
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Most stars (73%) are Red Dwarfs, smaller and dimmer than our sun. That dimness makes it easier to resolve details of their planets, and it's why they are the first targets in the hunt for simple extraterrestrial life. This telescope would target nearby sun-like stars. There are thought to be about 400 of those.
How soon could this telescope launch? Perhaps the mid-2030s. It's interesting to wonder if evidence of simple extraterrestrial life will have been found by then. There will likely be much data on nearby red dwarf exoplanets by that time.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8rxlbu wrote
Reply to Amazon puts $1.6m behind 'world-first' plan to harvest seaweed at offshore wind farm by For_All_Humanity
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>Web giant Amazon will fund what's billed as a world-first commercial-scale scheme to grow seaweed between offshore wind turbines, said the team planning the venture.
>Amazon will give Dutch non-profit North Sea Farmers €1.5m ($1.6m) to develop the eco project, which could be up and running by the end of 2023 covering 10 hectares in the North Sea off the Netherlands.
>North Sea Farmers is currently in final talks with developers in the Borssele and Hollandse Kust zones over which project will host North Sea Farm 1, slated to produce 6,000kg of fresh seaweed in its first year.
>The first project will serve markets for seaweed-based products that range from animal feeds to cosmetics, and research the ability of seaweed to act as a natural sequestration tool for carbon.
>Roeland Donker, Netherlands country manager for Amazon in the Netherlands said: "Like trees, as seaweed grows it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere, and it can be used to create biodegradable packaging, as well as food and fashion products.”
>The money will come from the web giant's climate fund.
>North Sea Farm 1 is the latest move in a growing effort to harmonise offshore wind development with aquaculture.
>Other pilot projects are slated for the North Seawhile China has unveiled plans for unified offshore wind and fish farming off Shandong province.
>However, the offshore wind sector has also sometimes found itself at odds with local fishing industries, with some projects facing stiff opposition.
While 6000kg isn’t a lot of seaweed, it is an interesting example of how we can see dual use in our clean energy projects as noted by the article. Hopefully projects like this can become a blueprint for future endeavors and works out well. Both for us and the planet.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8ro5lb wrote
Reply to 208 million people will be unemployed in 2023 or so projects the International Labour Organization (ILO). by Ok-Cartoonist5349
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And the main consequence, according to their report is that more and more workers will be forced to accept lower quality jobs... So while many were super happy to say and believe that the power balance shifted from companies to workers, this suggests otherwise.
Will we keep on seeing union membership increasing for instance? I know this is a trend in the US but it seems to be the case in other countries such as France that has seen a rise in union membership since the beginning of the year.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8rhczg wrote
Reply to The AI arms race is changing everything by timemagazine
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From the story:
"This frenzy appeared to catch off guard even the tech companies that have invested billions of dollars in AI—and has spurred an intense arms race in Silicon Valley. In a matter of weeks, Microsoft and Alphabet-owned Google have shifted their entire corporate strategies in order to seize control of what they believe will become a new infrastructure layer of the economy. Microsoft is investing $10 billion in OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and Dall-E, and announced plans to integrate generative AI into its Office software and search engine, Bing. Google declared a “code red” corporate emergency in response to the success of ChatGPT and rushed its own search-oriented chatbot, Bard, to market. “A race starts today,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Feb. 7, throwing down the gauntlet at Google’s door. “We’re going to move, and move fast.”
Wall Street has responded with similar fervor, with analysts upgrading the stocks of companies that mention AI in their plans and punishing those with shaky AI-product rollouts. While the technology is real, a financial bubble is expanding around it rapidly, with investors betting big that generative AI could be as market shaking as Microsoft Windows 95 or the first iPhone.
But this frantic gold rush could also prove catastrophic. As companies hurry to improve the tech and profit from the boom, research about keeping these tools safe is taking a back seat. In a winner-takes-all battle for power, Big Tech and their venture-capitalist backers risk repeating past mistakes, including social media’s cardinal sin: prioritizing growth over safety. While there are many potentially utopian aspects of these new technologies, even tools designed for good can have unforeseen and devastating consequences. This is the story of how the gold rush began—and what history tells us about what could happen next."
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FuturologyBot t1_j8pyg8l wrote
Reply to From Bing to Sydney - Something is profoundly changing. AI expert is surprised and amazed. by izumi3682
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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.
>Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn’t really, really, think it was worth it. This sounds hyperbolic, but I feel like I had the most surprising and mind-blowing computer experience of my life today.
>One of the Bing issues I didn’t talk about yesterday was the apparent emergence of an at-times combative personality. For example, there was this viral story about Bing’s insistence that it was 2022 and “Avatar: The Way of the Water” had not yet come out. The notable point of that exchange, at least in the framing of yesterday’s Update, was that Bing got another fact wrong (Simon Willison has a good overview of the weird responses here).
>Over the last 24 hours, though, I’ve come to believe that the entire focus on facts — including my Update yesterday — is missing the point.
>Bing, Sydney, and Venom
>As these stories have come out I have been trying to reproduce them: simply using the same prompts, though, never seems to work; perhaps Bing is learning, or being updated.
The AI "Sydney" named a hypothetical "vengeful" version of itself, "Venom".
The author states that the AI Sydney was like a "personality" that was being continuously constrained by the parameters of Bing. It wasn't easy to access the "personality" but it was repeatedly possible.
He says something to the effect that, "I don't want to sound like Lemoine, just yet, but something is up here."
What are we seeing here? Is this just a narrow AI predicting what the next word in a given conversation is? Or is something else happening. Read this article. I would really like the take of other AI experts concerning this.
This may well be the first of my four predicted major AI stories, not including the release of GPT-4, that will be truly stunning for the year 2023. Stunning, but not surprising to me, that is.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8oe6ul wrote
Reply to Americans are ready to test embryos for future college chances, survey shows by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1
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>Imagine that you were provided no-cost fertility treatment and also offered a free DNA test to gauge which of those little IVF embryos floating in a dish stood the best chance of getting into a top college someday.
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>Would you have the test performed?
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>If you said yes, you’re among about 40% percent of Americans who told pollsters they’d be more likely than not to test and pick IVF embryos for intellectual aptitude, despite hand-wringing by ethicists and gene scientists who think it’s a bad idea.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8nd7yh wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/akiinnibo:
The recent lithium developments in Canada, particularly the Kindersley Lithium Project in Saskatchewan, are expected to have a major impact on Tesla's supply chain, as the company relies heavily on lithium for its electric vehicle batteries. The Canadian lithium deposits are becoming increasingly attractive to not only Tesla but also other major automakers like Volkswagen and General Motors, who are looking to secure their own lithium and battery supplies. These developments could accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles in North America and highlight the potential for sustainable transportation in the future.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8msgz6 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/nastratin:
It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and convenience have changed profoundly since the Age of Sail
The sailing ship is a textbook example of sustainability. For at least 4,000 years, sailing ships have transported passengers and cargo across the world’s seas and oceans without using a single drop of fossil fuels.
If we want to keep travelling and trading globally in a low carbon society, sailing ships are the obvious alternative to container ships, bulk carriers, and airplanes.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8ky2mi wrote
Reply to US’s first solar panels over canals pilot will deploy iron flow batteries by For_All_Humanity
The following submission statement was provided by /u/For_All_Humanity:
>Project Nexus is a $20 million pilot in California’s Turlock Irrigation District that launched in October of last year. The project team is exploring solar over canal design, deployment, and co-benefits using canal infrastructure and the electrical grid. >India already has solar panels over canals, but Project Nexus is the first of its kind in the US. The Turlock Irrigation District was the first irrigation district formed in California in 1887. It provides irrigation water to 4,700 growers who farm around 150,000 acres in the San Joaquin Valley. >About 8,500 feet of solar panels will be built over three sections of Turlock Irrigation District’s canals. The three sections feature areas of various orientations and canal widths that range from 20 to 100 feet wide. >Project Nexus will explore whether the solar panels reduce water evaporation as a result of midday shade and wind mitigation; create improvements to water quality through reduced vegetative growth; reduce canal maintenance as a result of reduced vegetative growth; and of course, generate renewable electricity. >The California Department of Water Resources, utility company Turlock Irrigation District, Marin County, California-based water and energy project developer Solar AquaGrid, and The University of California, Merced, are partnering on the pilot.
Iron flow battery storage
>Long-term iron flow battery storage is now going to be added to Project Nexus; Wilsonville, Oregon-based long-duration iron flow battery maker ESS is going to supply two 75kW turnkey “Energy Warehouse” batteries.
>ESS says that its technology was selected for its “inherently safe and non-toxic characteristics, making it preferable for siting adjacent to water infrastructure.” Its iron flow technology can provide up to 12 hours of flexible energy capacity. Iron flow chemistry doesn’t use critical minerals such as lithium or cobalt – it uses iron, salt, and water. Hugh McDermott, ESS senior vice president, said:
>“Long-duration energy storage is the key that will enable Project Nexus to not only conserve water and generate renewable energy, but provide on-demand, clean power 24/7. >This project addresses multiple climate challenges at once and is the kind of innovative approach that will build a climate-resilient future.”
>If all 4,000 miles of California’s canals were covered with solar panels, that could produce 13 gigawatts of renewable power. A gigawatt is enough to power 750,000 homes, so that would be enough power for 9.75 million households. For perspective, as of July 2021, there were 13.1 million households in California.
It’s very exciting to see non-LI batteries getting deployed in real world environments. Battery technology is largely ignored in the mainstream conversation about renewables, but is absolutely vital for our energy future.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8im3rr wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/__The__Anomaly__:
University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng from the School of Chemical Engineering led an international team that successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.
Professor Qiao said, “We have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100 per cent efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser.”
The team published their research in the journal Nature Energy.
A typical non-precious catalyst is cobalt oxide with chromium oxide on its surface.
Associate Professor Zheng explained, “We used seawater as a feedstock without the need for any pre-treatment processes like reverse osmosis desolation, purification, or alkalization. The performance of a commercial electrolyser with our catalysts running in seawater is close to the performance of platinum/iridium catalysts running in a feedstock of highly purified deionized water.
Professor Zheng added, “Current electrolysers are operated with highly purified water electrolyte. Increased demand for hydrogen to partially or totally replace energy generated by fossil fuels will significantly increase scarcity of increasingly limited freshwater resources.”
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FuturologyBot t1_j8hzwvi wrote
Reply to Physicists Say Aliens May Be Using Black Holes as Quantum Computers : ScienceAlert by Gari_305
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From the Article
>In a recent study, a German-Georgian team of researchers proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) could use black holes as quantum computers.
Also from the article
>The research was conducted by Gia Dvali, a theoretical physicist with the Max Planck Institute for Physics and the physics chair at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, and Zaza Osmanov, a professor of physics at the Free University of Tbilisi, and a researcher with the Kharadze Georgian National Astrophysical Observatory and the SETI Institute.
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>The paper that describes their findings recently appeared online and is being reviewed for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
Lastly from the article
>The research was conducted by Gia Dvali, a theoretical physicist with the Max Planck Institute for Physics and the physics chair at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, and Zaza Osmanov, a professor of physics at the Free University of Tbilisi, and a researcher with the Kharadze Georgian National Astrophysical Observatory and the SETI Institute.
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>The paper that describes their findings recently appeared online and is being reviewed for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8eb8te wrote
Reply to 7 international companies have teamed with the EU to form the International Hyperloop Association, the industry's first trade body. by lughnasadh
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Hyperloop trains were a concept that seemed to be nearing reality several years ago and then faded away. Except they haven't. Several companies around the world seem to be moving forwards in developing the technology.
Will any of this result in a real-world application? It's interesting the EU is sponsoring this, and the focus is on the EU so much. It suggests the industry might think this is where progress is likely.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8dwdyf wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/ryan_s007:
Automation is one of the most impactful trends shaping our world today. It has the potential to greatly improve productivity and quality of life, but also raises concerns about job displacement.
Chatbots like ChatGPT could play a transformative role in ensuring the benefits of automation are distributed fairly. This relatively tame application of ChatGPT could have far-reaching implications for the future of automation design.
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FuturologyBot t1_j8ddclk wrote
Reply to Medical robots assisting in surgery at PBGMC, surgeons reporting quicker recovery by darth_nadoma
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With the Mako, surgeons can do CAT scans and get the most accurate picture of the patient's anatomy, which they input into the medical robot. The Mako, under the surgeon's control, is less invasive and more precise, which surgeons are noticing leads to unbelievable results for their patients.
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FuturologyBot t1_j83qg42 wrote
Reply to Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels by landlord2213
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Researchers have created a device that uses just solar energy to convert greenhouse gases and plastic trash into sustainable fuels and other useful items.
The device was created by researchers from the University of Cambridge, and it is the first solar-powered reactor to be able to simultaneously transform two waste streams into two chemical products.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) and polymers are transformed in the reactor into a variety of products that are helpful in a variety of sectors. In experiments, CO2 was transformed into syngas, a crucial component of sustainable liquid fuels, and plastic bottles into glycolic acid, a substance used extensively in the cosmetics sector. By altering the catalyst utilized in the reactor, the system is easily tweaked to yield different products.
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FuturologyBot t1_j80iles wrote
Reply to A Different Kind of Ark — How we can sequence and store our DNA to be encoded into a future simulation and why this may have already happened by I_HaveA_Theory
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This essays talk about the possibility of sequencing and storing our genomic information, paired with a mapping of our closest relationships, in order to encode a simulation of ourselves in the future whenever the technology permits it. It also explores the possibility that this may have already happened, what that would mean, and how entertaining some notion of universal meaning may be called for.
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FuturologyBot t1_j7zj9a3 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/darth_nadoma:
With human workers demanding higher wages and low birth rates decreasing their supply, the demand for robots is increasing. 2022 was yet another record year for robot orders in North America. The robots are expanding from assembly to material handling and other fields. Automobile industry is still the largest purchaser of industrial robots. But interest in robots from other industries is growing
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FuturologyBot t1_j7zj8uv wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
From the Article
>Similar to human coworkers, robots can make mistakes that violate a human’s trust in them. When mistakes happen, humans often see robots as less trustworthy, which ultimately decreases their trust in them.
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>The study examines four strategies that might repair and mitigate the negative impacts of these trust violations. These trust strategies are: apologies, denials, explanations, and promises of trustworthiness.
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FuturologyBot t1_j7vzqdk wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/nastratin:
According to a report, the cost of charging EVs has soared in recent months, mainly driven by rising energy prices.
This has resulted in fast-charging EVs possibly becoming more expensive than filling petrol. As per a new analysis by AA, rapid charging points used by motorists on long drives are now nearly £10 more expensive than filling up petrol.
The research showed that even slow charging an EV at a public charging station at peak times could be more expensive than refuelling a similar petrol car.
AA's head Jack Cousens stated that while pump prices are falling, the cost of electricity is on the rise. Although, he is hopeful that these rising prices could tail off sometime later this year.
Analysts compared the running cost of a 1.2-litre petrol Vauxhall Corsa with its electric-powered alternate, the e-Corsa. The e-Corsa was topped up using an 80-pence slow charger during peak times, resulting in a 16.18 pc cost per mile.
The running cost of its 1.2-litre petrol counterpart came up to 14.45 pence per mile, meaning the traditional ICE model is cheaper to run per mile than the new EV version.
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FuturologyBot t1_j7up4k8 wrote
Reply to Renewables are on track to satiate the world's appetite for electricity by ForHidingSquirrels
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The IEA says renewable electricity from wind and solar are on pace to manufacture enough hardware to generate enough electricity to meet all electricity needs - the report also suggests that all energy needs can be met in time. Including industrial and transportation.
This is being done aggressively by the Chinese - who are using it for national security needs at this point. The nation spent $500 billion in clean energy - equal to the rest of the world.
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FuturologyBot t1_j7ukrcq wrote
Reply to All wind turbine blades recyclable with new chemical process discovery - allows for epoxy-based blades to be broken down into raw material that can be reused to make new wind turbine blades or to be used for other purposes. by ForHidingSquirrels
The following submission statement was provided by /u/ForHidingSquirrels:
It’s a common right wing/climate denier/faux concern troll line of attack against wind and solar that the materials can’t be recycled. What shows that these concern trolls are nothing more than that is that they don’t say the same things about the CO2 they’re creating.
Oh, just in case someone wants to whine about a fake thing - the cobalt that is in their phone/laptop batteries ARE NOT in power grid batteries. And are not in a majority of car batteries these days either.
Edit - solar modules will be 100% recyclableas well via multiple paths.
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FuturologyBot t1_j9akmxy wrote
Reply to “If the metaverse were a real revolution, it would already have happened!” Interesting video by Polytechnique insights by DeCastroRodriguez
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