Collaborate Disseminate
In 2016 an online “swarm intelligence” platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But its 2017 predictions weren’t even close.) Slashdot checked in again on how modern AI systems perf… Continue reading Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby
“The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel,” CNN reported this week. And many of those countries now want renewable fuels, the article points out, “leaving them turning to the renewables king of the planet: China.”
Chinese exp… Continue reading Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began
“Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound,” reports the New York Post:
Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff ou… Continue reading Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise
Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube’s subtitles “not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good.” But they say there’s a new problem.
“The subtitling is terrible!”
Almost every sentence has a hug… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube’s Subtitles ‘Appallingly Bad’?
“Nuclear AI startup” Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, “three times the amount typically consumed by New York City.”
Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and … Continue reading The $19B “Nuclear AI” Energy Startup That Couldn’t Sign a Single Client
Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them “the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding… Continue reading Using Drones for Cloud-Seeding Can Trigger Rain, Company Claims
“Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley’s AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less,” writes the Washington Post:
Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an indu… Continue reading What if Tech Company Layoffs Aren’t All About AI?
Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried … Continue reading An Amateur Just Solved a 60-Year-Old Math Problem – by Asking AI
Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus “was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “after a tug-of-war with a security gua… Continue reading Costumed Crowd ‘Speedruns’ Scientology Building For Social Media Trend
This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient’s retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabe… Continue reading Retina Scan for Diabetes Could Also Reduce Deaths During Pregnancy in Developing Countries