Rumours still swirl around OpenAI’s human level AI “Q”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF OpenAI have been hiding a new development, but until they clarify what it is the rumour train is hurtling through the station. Love the…
In a world first this organism has 50 percent synthetic DNA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are getting closer to being able to create organisms that are 100% synthetic DNA and that are truly artificial lifeforms. Love the Exponential…
In a world first AI beats humans at a physical sport
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI isn’t just constrained to the digital world, in the future it will be able to increasingly influence and enter the real world in different…
DeepMind’s newest AI learns new skills by watching humans
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think that we need data to train AI, but data comes in many forms, and new AI’s are being trained in many new ways…
New study confirms that zaps from electric eels transfer new genes into animals
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nature, and evolution, is more chaotic than first thought, but this new breakthrough opens up a new world of electrogenetic human user interfaces … …
This new quantum microscope sees things nothing else can
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our ability to see smaller and smaller objects, even smaller than atoms, is helping us create new materials and understand the world in new ways.…
These programmable DNA nanobots can make new things and replicate infinitely
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to making big things humanity’s great, but we’re getting better at creating things at the nanoscale too and pushing the boundaries of…
Google’s new Gemini AI beats OpenAI’s GPT-4 and humans at 57 subjects
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are seeing rapid improvements in AI capability, may of which are now starting to outperform human experts in numerous fields. Love the Exponential…
OpenAI seeks new private AI training datasets to help them realise AGI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI companies have trained their giant AI models on almost all of the freely available datasets, and now they want private datasets to help them…
Researchers warn we could run out of data to train AI’s by 2026
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s largest AI’s have been trained on almost all of the free and available data they can find on the internet, and from open source…