"How do you shrink a cloud’s worth of material into tiny, low power devices?”  #analog #ai

Embedded Computing Design

Ambiq Announces New Apollo5 SoC for Efficient AI - Embedded Computing Design

In a new release, semiconductor company Ambiq has revealed its Apollo510, the first member of the company’s Apollo5 SoC family, designed to d...

"Microsoft’s new safety system can catch hallucinations in its customers’ AI apps" Not sure I buy that you can generically catch hallucination #ai #chatgpt #LLMs

The Verge

Microsoft’s new safety system can catch hallucinations in its customers’ AI apps

AI safety help for anyone who doesn’t have a red team.

#climatechange is shifting the zones where plants grow. https://phys.org/news/2024-03-climate-shifting-zones-garden.html

AI and other emerging technologies may trigger a revival in analog computing

Kyndryl

Why AI and other emerging technologies may trigger a revival in analog computing

To prepare for a potential resurgence in analog computing, begin your company’s analog rediscovery journey today

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened? #postscarcity #solarpunk

Vox

A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?

"...first complete memristor-based Bayesian neural network implementation for a real-world AI task, classifying types of arrhythmia recordings..." #ai #analog

eeNews Europe

First complete memristor neural network for medical AI

Researchers in France have developed a neural network base don memristor technology that has been used for real world medical analysis.

"computation is performed in memory, so enormous loads of data are not transferred back and forth from memory to a processor." #analog #ai

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy

MIT researchers created protonic programmable resistors — building blocks of analog deep learning systems — that can process data 1 million tim...

#Analog #AI: Making Deep Neural Network systems more capable and energy-efficient

IBM Research

Analog AI

Making Deep Neural Network systems more capable and energy-efficient.

Bookmarking Alignment. You know who you are. #books #writing

Bitcoins being moved out of centralized exchanges into custodial wallets in anticipation of a price surge?

BeInCrypto

Bitcoin : 540 millions de dollar de BTC retirés des bourses

Bitcoin connaît une hausse massive des retraits des exchanges centralisés, qui s'élèvent à 540 millions de dollars.

#bitcoin #nostr

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot Risk of just a simple chatbot. #AI #ChatGPT

Ars Technica

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

"We do not yet fully understand the energy requirements of this technology." - Sam Altman "Electricity consumed by digital data centers around the world is expected to double by 2026." #climatechange #AI https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/02/08/l-explosion-de-la-demande-d-electricite-liee-a-l-ia-a-deja-des-consequences-locales_6215368_3234.html

Not a movie. #AI Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

Ars Technica

Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

Hong Kong firm reportedly tricked by simulation of multiple people in video chat.

Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Legitimate lift for renewable energy or greenwashing? #solarpunk #renewableenergy

WIRED

Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Decision Is a Warning

Politicians claim the move could provide vital minerals for the green transition. Critics say opening up exploration creates geopolitical headaches...

Vortex Bladeless has designed an upright cylindrical wind energy harvester that works by oscillating rather than using a rotating blade. Not sure how real this wind tech with prurient nickname is.

The Cool Down

Good vibes created by bladeless wind energy tech: Can a 'skybrator' contribute to wind energy generation?

Startup Vortex Bladeless has designed an upright cylindrical wind energy harvester that works by oscillating rather than using a rotating blade.

#solarpunk #renewableenergy

"The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using published news articles to train its artificial intelligence chatbots without an agreement that compensates it for its intellectual property"

Engadget

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement for using published news articles to train its artificial intelligence ...

#AI #chatgpt #LLMs

Don’t Fall for Big Oil’s Carbon Capture Deceptions #environmental #solarpunk #climatechange

Scientific American

Don

Carbon capture technology is a PR fig leaf designed to help Big Oil delay the phaseout of fossil fuels

AI and the Rise of Mediocrity "Because they cannot truly innovate, everything that predictive language and image models will produce will be a sequel to what came before: not an original idea, but a mash-up of our old tropes, repackaged for our consumption."

TIME

AI and the Rise of Mediocrity

'AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high,' writes Ray Nayler.

#llm #llms #chatgpt #ai

"Geothermal energy was once confined in theory to areas of geothermal activity, but if one drills deep enough, there’s extreme heat from the planet’s core essentially everywhere to be harnessed to make steam and drive turbines to create carbon-free electricity 24 hours a day when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining."

Good News Network

New Google Geothermal Electricity Project Could Be a Milestone for Clean Energy

, Google made an early bet on this enhanced geothermal technology, and partnered with the Utah-based Fervo Energy to deliver 3.5MW of power.

#solarpunk #geothermal #renewableenergy

Art Farmer – Farmer's Market

Songlink/Odesli

Farmer's Market (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) by Art Farmer

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, a...

#jazz #music #vinyl #nowplaying Alto Saxophone – Gigi Gryce (tracks: C1 to C4) Art Direction – Tony Lane (2) Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank (tracks: B3 to B5), Oscar Estell (tracks: B1, B2) Bass – Addison Farmer (tracks: C3, C4 to D4), Monk Montgomery (tracks: B1, B2), Percy Heath (tracks: A1 to A4, B3 to C2) Drums – Joe Jones* (tracks: C3, C4), Art Taylor (tracks: B3, B4, B5), Elvin Jones (tracks: D3, D4), Herbie Lovelle (tracks: D1, D2), Kenny Clarke (tracks: A1 to A4, C1, C2), Sonny Johnson (tracks: B1, B2) Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder Liner Notes [Summer 1973] – Dick Hadlock* Photography By [Cover] – Lee Tanner Piano – Duke Jordan (tracks: C3, C4), Horace Silver (tracks: A1 to A4, B3 to B5), Kenny Drew (tracks: D3, D4), Quincy Jones (tracks: B1, B2), Wynton Kelly (tracks: D1, D2) Producer – Bob Weinstock Remastered By – Mike Reese Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Rouse (tracks: B3 to B5), Cliff Solomon* (tracks: B1, B2), Hank Mobley (tracks: D3, D4), Sonny Rollins (tracks: A1 to A4) Trombone – Jimmy Cleveland (tracks: B1 to B5) Trumpet, Horns, Flugelhorn – Art Farmer