Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 7
Explore the nuances of the transformer architecture behind Llama 3 and its prospects for the GenAI ecosystem.
Aug 23, 2024
Japan forgets about hydrogen and all existing fuels: The future is magnetic levitation, and works like that
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: energy, futurism
Japan is ignoring EVs and hydrogen, and has a good reason: They are producing the first-ever magnetic levitation engine, and works like that.
Aug 23, 2024
‘Otherworld technologies’: Former presidential aide’s CIA claim
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
A former senior adviser to multiple US presidents has claimed he was briefed on “otherworld technologies” by a top CIA official in the 1960s.
Aug 23, 2024
Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don’t Code — and AI Does It Instead
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
AI is shaking up industries — and software engineering is no exception.
In a leaked recording of a June fireside chat obtained by Business Insider, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman reportedly told employees that AI is changing what being a software engineer means —and essentially changes the job description.
“If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding,” Garman said, adding later that the developer role would look different next year compared to 2020.
Aug 22, 2024
Research Reveals Potential Target for Immune Diseases
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Research that began with a patient-driven discovery in the lab of YSM’s Carrie Lucas, PhD, could help in fighting autoimmune diseases.
Writing in Nature Immunology, Lucas and colleagues identify a signaling molecule found in immune cells that could be a target for future treatments.
A medical mystery served as the genesis for a Yale-led study that has promising implications for treating a range of autoimmune diseases.
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Aug 22, 2024
Scientists invent a hot-emitter transistor for future high-performance, low-power, multifunctional devices
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, futurism
Transistors, the building blocks of integrated circuits, face growing challenges as their size decreases. Developing transistors that use novel operating principles has become crucial to enhancing circuit performance.
Hot carrier transistors, which utilize the excess kinetic energy of carriers, have the potential to improve the speed and functionality of transistors. However, their performance has been limited by how hot carriers have traditionally been generated.
A team of researchers led by Prof. Liu Chi, Prof. Sun Dongming, and Prof. CHeng Huiming from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel hot carrier generation mechanism called stimulated emission of heated carriers (SEHC).
Aug 22, 2024
World’s fastest microscope can see electrons moving
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Scientists have created the world’s fastest microscope, which they hope will answer fundamental questions about how electrons behave.
Aug 22, 2024
Emerging chiral two-dimensional materials
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, materials
Chirality in extended 2D structures exhibits fundamental differences from molecular-level chirality. This Perspective discusses how local molecular chirality is transmitted and amplified to form distinctive global chirality within ultrathin, single-crystalline 2D materials; it also explores the future challenges and potential of this field.
Aug 22, 2024
GPT-4 passed the Turing test. It’s history, but it’s not true glory
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
GPT-4 passes the Turing test beating GPT-3.5, ELIZA and… man. Has he become intelligent or “just” super effective at appearing so?