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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: AI & Robotics
- Topic: AI & Robotics News and Discussions
- Replies: 901
- Views: 922706
Re: AI & Robotics News and Discussions
AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report 15 April 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image clas...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: Dumbasses & General Stupidity Thread
- Replies: 348
- Views: 287402
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Physics
- Topic: Warp drives and other superluminal travel
- Replies: 1
- Views: 206
Warp drives and other superluminal travel
New study appearing in IOP Science. ----- Analyzing warp drive spacetimes with Warp Factory Published 5 April 2024 • © 2024 IOP Publishing Ltd The field of warp research has been dominated by analytical methods to investigate potential solutions. However, these approaches often favor simple metric f...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17917
Re: What are you reading?
I've almost finished The Coming Wave , by Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of DeepMind). It's a great overview of the ethics surrounding AI. It's been a while since I read any fiction, and I'd like to become engrossed in some futuristic story at bedtime, so I'm thinking of Surface Detail by the late Iai...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: Life on Earth Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 229
- Views: 546098
Re: Life on Earth Appreciation Thread
Ladders have been built in the Forest of Dean for dormice to get around the forest. 16 hours ago Mini rope bridges have been installed in one of England's ancient forests to help hazel dormice travel safely between treetops. Two 20m-long bridges have been built over a track in the Forest of Dean. T...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Business & Politics
- Topic: Indian Subcontinent Watch Thread
- Replies: 122
- Views: 113458
Re: Indian Subcontinent Watch Thread
India is holding a mammoth election with nearly a billion voters By Geeta Pandey The general election is the largest democratic exercise ever - almost one in eight people in the world can vote. On 19 April, Indians will begin choosing a new parliament for the next five years, as Prime Minister Nare...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: The Singularity - Official Thread
- Replies: 278
- Views: 1468947
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Business & Politics
- Topic: EU News and Discussions
- Replies: 56
- Views: 40032
Re: EU News and Discussions
This is sourced to the thepeople'svoice.tv, which is absolute crap in terms of reliability. Seriously, it's one of those conspiracy sites that's worse than even the Mail. Indeed. And linking to these sites is really bad for our SEO. Anyway, population news should go in Society & Demographics.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Military & War
- Topic: China could mount full scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025
- Replies: 114
- Views: 237789
Re: China could mount full scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025
China’s Xi Jinping says ‘no force’ can stop ‘reunion’ with Taiwan April 10, 2024 5:40 pm Amid heightened tensions between China and Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a former Taiwanese president who supports unification that the countries “belong” together. “Differences in systems cannot ch...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: Business & Politics
- Topic: The Elon Musk Thread
- Replies: 131
- Views: 107879
Re: The Elon Musk Thread
Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce 2 hours ago Tesla will lay off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce. In a memo, first reported by news website Electrek, billionaire owner Elon Musk told staff there was nothing he hated more, "but it must be done". The world...