Bill Gates talks about the inevitability that AI will become more intelligent than humans. Bill Gates has insider access and insight into what OpenAI and Microsoft are doing in AI. He believes the next level is to get to human-like metacognition. We need to go beyond the more trivial reasoning of LLM today. Metacognition is …
I, Brian Wang, make the case and projects out what a hugely impactful development it would be for SpaceX and Tesla to develop a complete gigafactory with its supply chain and sending those to the moon and Mars and elsewhere. Those systems could have a one to two-year duplicating time. 40 years and two year …
Jack Hough wrote an article mocking the Kurzweil prediction of the Technological Singularity and Elon Musk stating that there is a 70% chance he will move to Mars. Ray Kurzweil gives his predictions a 10-15 year grace period. This means Ray would consider himself correct if the Technological Singularity occurred between 2031 and 2059. This …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 267 is up at the Energy Reality Project. Neutron Bytes – Demand for small modular reactors may be significantly reduced by Supreme Court ruling on EPA coal plant emissions. On June 29th the US Supreme Court threw out EPA’s coal emissions regulations that if implemented would have forced many utilities …
SpaceX has been certified by NASA’s for Falcon 9 rockets to carryout Category 2 space missions. These are ”medium risk’ launches such as satellites and less expensive space probes. The Atlas 5, Delta 2 and Pegasus XL rockets operate under this certification. It took three years for SpaceX to have its Falcon 9 to complete …
Altera Corporation is a pioneer of programmable logic solutions and enabling systems. They are a leader with FPGAs. The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device that can be programmed after manufacturing. Instead of being restricted to any predetermined hardware function, an FPGA allows you to program product features and functions, adapt to new …
Drawing inspiration from the structure of bones and bamboo, researchers have found that by gradually changing the internal structure of metals they can make stronger, tougher materials that can be customized for a wide variety of applications – from body armor to automobile parts. “If you looked at metal under a microscope you’d see that …
Elon Musk appears to have taken to his official Twitter account to accuse a former Air Force official of having “likely” accepted a bribe to grant the exclusive black sat launch contract to United Launch Alliance. The National Legal and Policy Centre (NLPC) article reported on Roger Correll’s time as a procurement official for the …
The Carnival of Space 347 is up at Cosmoquest Universe Today – Rings are a tough phenomenon to spot. As late as 1977, astronomers thought that the only thing in the solar system with rings was the planet Saturn. Now, we can add the first asteroid to the list of ringed bodies nearby us. The …
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and IBM today announced an initiative to accelerate a new era of genomic medicine with the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive system. IBM and NYGC will test a unique Watson prototype designed specifically for genomic research as a tool to help oncologists deliver more personalized care to cancer patients. …
Three large, near-Earth asteroids, two of which measure about 12 miles in diameter — are the largest near earth asteroids to have been discovered in 23 years. The smallest of the three asteroids measures little more than a mile across, but it may pass within 3.4 million miles of Earth, making it a “potentially hazardous …