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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 ...
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 ...
This Tiny Electric Car Is Solar-Powered and Costs $6,800
WEBJul 21, 2021 · This Tiny Electric Car Is Solar-Powered and Costs $6,800. By Vanessa Bates Ramirez. July 21, 2021. In December of last year, a California-based startup called Aptera Motors started taking pre-orders for an electric car that’s partly solar powered. The Aptera has a unique, streamlined design, just three wheels, and a price tag of $25,900 to ...
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 …
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 ...
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 …
3 Major Materials Science Breakthroughs—and Why They Matter …
WEBMay 21, 2020 · In robotics, new materials are helping us create the artificial muscles needed for humanoid, soft robots—think Westworld in your world. Let’s unpack some of the leading materials science breakthroughs of the past decade. (1) Lithium-ion batteries. The lithium-ion battery, which today powers everything from …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says His Company Is Now Building GPT-5
WEBNovember 15, 2023. At an MIT event in March, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said his team wasn’t yet training its next AI, GPT-5. “We are not and won’t for some time,” he told the audience. This week, however, new details about GPT-5’s status emerged. In an interview, Altman told the Financial Times the company is now working to ...
Quantum Computers Will Kill Digital Security. These Algorithms …
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Quantum Computers Will Kill Digital Security. These Algorithms Could Stop Them. By Jason Dorrier. August 15, 2024. Peter Shor published one of the earliest algorithms for quantum computers in 1994. Running Shor’s algorithm on a hypothetical quantum computer, one could rapidly factor enormous …