#436784 This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From ...

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Android

COMPUTING
Inside the Race to Build the Best Quantum Computer on EarthGideon Lichfield | MIT Technology Review“Regardless of whether you agree with Google’s position [on ‘quantum supremacy’] or IBM’s, the next goal is clear, Oliver says: to build a quantum computer that can do something useful. …The trouble is that it’s nearly impossible to predict what the first useful task will be, or how big a computer will be needed to perform it.”
FUTURE
We’re Not Prepared for the End of Moore’s […] Continue Reading…

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#436774 AI Is an Energy-Guzzler. We Need to ...

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Android

There is a saying that has emerged among the tech set in recent years: AI is the new electricity. The platitude refers to the disruptive power of artificial intelligence for driving advances in everything from transportation to predicting the weather.
Of course, the computers and data centers that support AI’s complex algorithms are very much dependent on electricity. While that may seem pretty obvious, it may be surprising to learn that AI can be extremely power-hungry, especially when it comes […] Continue Reading…

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#436013 Know your Robot from your Humanoid, ...

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Android

This video addresses the difference between a robot, droid, cyborg, humanoid, and an android.

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#436578 AI Just Discovered a New Antibiotic to ...

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Android

Penicillin, one of the greatest discoveries in the history of medicine, was a product of chance.
After returning from summer vacation in September 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming found a colony of bacteria he’d left in his London lab had sprouted a fungus. Curiously, wherever the bacteria contacted the fungus, their cell walls broke down and they died. Fleming guessed the fungus was secreting something lethal to the bacteria—and the rest is history.
Fleming’s discovery of penicillin and its later isolation, synthesis, […] Continue Reading…

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#436573 This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From ...

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Android

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Messy, Secretive Reality Behind OpenAI’s Bid to Save the WorldKaren Hao | MIT Technology Review“The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism. …Yet OpenAI is still a bastion of talent and cutting-edge research, filled with people who are sincerely striving to work for the benefit of humanity. In other words, it still has the most important elements, and there’s still time for it […] Continue Reading…

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