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5·10 months ago“So long and thanks for all the fish”
Just a concept at the moment, but I can see their being demand for this thing
To clarify, according to the paper, while intentionally assuming a human persona, it managed to fool most psychology undergraduates, not just random people.
Tiny wattage, but still useful, especially if you can group these into larger battery packs
Only 1.38mm2, they could fit this tiny thing anywhere. Medical devices spring to mind.
One advantage of having no infrastructure is you can leapfrog old technologies. We’ve seen this with countries that had no copper telephone wires everywhere, they moved straight to cellular technology.
The word of the day is “technofeudalism”
I got that reference!
We already have military planes that go pretty close to that, and missiles go at Mach 20 so we have the technology
Reminds me of R2D2
Reminds me of the grains of rice on a chessboard doubling each square. The end result suprised the king and the time horizons of these things is going to suprise humanity.
These agents use automated feedback to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses, resulting in a self-improving cycle of increasingly high-quality and novel outputs.
So they are going to point this thing at the AI codebase right? Right?
Do these open source models have access to the same volume of training data that the commercial models have?
A private mission to the moon will launch next month to pave the way for humanity’s return to the lunar surface.
Ghost Riders in the Sky - the mission name chosen by US start-up Firefly Aerospace - will target a landing in the Sea of Crisis, a dark patch the size of Britain on the near-side of the moon.
The Blue Ghost lunar lander will carry 10 scientific instruments and technology demonstrations to the surface as part of NASA’s partnership with commercial operators.
Jason Kim, chief executive officer of Firefly Aerospace, said the space agency had paid a fixed price of $101m (£80m) for the mission, a low cost only achievable with technology innovation.
“We believe in a future of a very robust lunar economy,” he said.
“It is the gateway to other planets, like Mars. And so enabling the frequency of very affordable and high science-value missions is what private industry is doing with this first Blue Ghost mission.”
The spacecraft, which is the size of a large shed, will launch from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in mid-January, or soon after, and take 45 days to reach the moon.
It’ll land autonomously on shock-absorbing feet and short legs to reduce the risk of it toppling over, a fate suffered by Intuitive Machine’s Nova-C spacecraft in the south pole region of the moon last February.
Mission will study lunar dust
Several of its technology demonstrations are for dealing with regolith, or lunar dust.
A ‘PlanetVac’ will vacuum up and analyse lunar samples and an electromagnetic dust shield will be tested to see if it can protect delicate instruments.
Ryan Watkins, a NASA programme scientist, said: "The moon is quite a dusty area. As we design technologies for the lunar surface, regolith needs to be better understood.
“Lunar dust can affect mechanical components and human health, so we need to know how to account for its effects.”
Recording a lunar sunset in high-definition
Blue Ghost will remain operational on the surface for 14 days.
One of its final tasks will be to record high-definition video of a lunar sunset.
It should provide the first quality imagery of the lunar glow, a phenomenon caused by dust particles floating several centimetres above the surface.
Mr Kim said the video would be a fitting tribute to the last man to walk on the moon, who sketched what he saw in the fading light.
“We expect to capture a phenomenon seen and documented by Eugene Cernan during his final steps of Apollo 17, where he observed a glow as the lunar dust levitated on the lunar surface,” he said.
For those that don’t want to click the X link:
General purpose technologies are the closest thing we have to magic.
Each has given us more with less - and propelled civilization forward. Check out this list of 24 over the last 10,000 years
- Domestication of plants
- Domestication of animals
- Smelting of ore
- Money
- Wheel
- Writing
- Bronze
- Iron
- Water wheel
- Three-masted sailing ship
- Printing
- Factory system
- Steam Engine
- Railways
- Steamship
- Internal combustion engine
- Electricity
- Automobile
- Airplane
- Mass production
- Computer
- Lean production
- Internet
- Biotechnology
AND we have AI, the ultimate meta-technology…
the real question is how many further general-purpose technologies it can unlock in turn.
Climate
- 2024 hottest year on record (so far)
- COP30 a failure
- Large storms / floods destroy portion of a US city
- Oil and Gas continues to expand
AI / Tech
- AI roll out continues and more and more businesses shed staff for AI
- No sign of AGI
- No significant roll out of AI powered robots other than in isolated cases
Economy
- Bitcoin hits $200k at some point in 2025
- Global Inflation Down
- Global Interest rates Down
- Inequality continues to rise globally
War
- More conflict in middle east, potentially China joins fray somewhere
- Stalemate in Ukraine, no formal end to war
Medicine
- Neuralink/BCI makes progress but nothing groundbreaking
Energy
- Solar / Wind continues to expand, prices drop further
- Fusion 30 years away
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You can read the blog post directly here: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/