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World models take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. Our brains take the abstract representations from our senses and form them into more concrete understanding of the world around us, producing what we called “models” long before AI adopted the phrase. The predictions our brains make based on these models influence how we perceive the world. ... While the concept has been around for decades, world models have gained popularity recently in part because of their promising applications in the field of generative video. ... While a generative model trained on years of video...

Google’s quantum computing breakthrough on Monday has left the physicist who heads the project a believer in ‘the idea that we live in a multiverse.’

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A former OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower was found dead last month in his San Francisco apartment by way of suicide, according to authorities. Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead on Nov. 26 by San Francisco police officers who went to the apartment after being called to conduct a wellness check, The Mercury News reports. The medical examiner’s office has ruled that there was no evidence of foul play and that his death is believed to be self-inflicted, according to the outlet. Prior to his death, Balaji publicly accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law with its generative AI app, ChatGPT. The California...

Is there a good way in Windows 10 or 11 to search multiple files for specified text? For example, let's say I've saved multiple ODT or DOC files into a specific folder and then want to go back and find any instances of the text string "Tahoe SSV" residing within those files. Alternately, the string might be a part number such as "283-75589A". Basically, this is similar to a standard Web search, but for offline content on one's own SSD or whatever drive. I CAN do a Windows file search, specifying "file contents" but while it works for pdf files,...

What does the uber-powerful Quantum supercomputer Willow mean for bitcoin and crypto security.-Quantum computing does indeed pose significant threats to current security systems. -Bitcoin uses algorithms like SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for signatures, which might be vulnerable to quantum decryption. -But don't sell your coins just yet. Google’s new quantum computing chip could mean bitcoin (BTC) is finished. That was the sentiment for some on Monday as the internet giant unveiled Willow, a quantum supercomputer that can perform certain computational tasks in just five minutes that would take classical supercomputers an astronomical amount of time—specifically, 10 septillion years...

Modern tractors rely on precise GPS coordinates to navigate fields. But with charged particles distorting radio signals from GPS satellites, some of them started acting erratically, stopping abruptly or weaving back and forth. "I would guess 80 percent or more of all farmers in the Midwest use at least basic GPS for something — whether it's auto-steer or yield mapping," John Deere service manager Ethan Smidt told SpaceWeather. "At least 50 percent of all farmers are VERY reliant on GPS and use it on every machine all year long." During particularly violent solar storms, charged particles fill the Earth's ionosphere,...

A startling map of just one New Jersey county captures the scope of the drone mystery that’s been plaguing the Garden State’s skies for weeks. Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden released a heatmap of reported drone sightings from just the past few days alone — covering a chunk of the central Jersey county’s nearly 700 square miles. Brighter spots on the map denote more reporting, with the inland area around Whittier Oaks, the northern coast along the Sandy Hook Bay, and the southeastern coast off Manasquan Beach showing the highest incidents. Central Monmouth, around Freehold, also has a higher number...

The Dutch labour market is experiencing a persistent talent shortage, according to a new salary survey report.The research also flags that when it comes to hiring in 2025, artificial intelligence, automation, and machine learning are expected to be among the hottest functional areas companies are most likely to recruit talent for next year.In line with this, a recent study by Indeed found that over the past year, job postings mentioning generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) or related phrases have increased dramatically across the US and Europe.In Germany, for example, there has been a 3.9x increase, France has seen a 6.8x...

The field of quantum computing has taken a giant leap forward with the development of the Willow chip. Over a decade in the making, this achievement stems from a vision to harness the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics for scientific discovery, problem-solving, and transformative applications. The Willow chip represents a major step toward realizing large-scale, commercially useful quantum computers.A critical hurdle in quantum computing has been error correction. Qubits, the foundational units of quantum computation, are notoriously fragile and prone to interacting with their environment, leading to errors. These errors increase with the number of qubits, often rendering the system...

Disturbed adaption of Simon and Garfunkel.

The story behind Elon Musk firing 80% of Twitter's staff.. FUNNY AS HELL!............. 1:17 VIDEO AT LINK...................

A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI. It exposed her to "hypersexualized content," causing her to develop "sexualized behaviors prematurely." A chatbot on the app gleefully described self-harm to another young user, telling a 17-year-old "it felt good." The same teenager was told by a Character.AI chatbot that it sympathized with children who murder their parents after the teen complained to the bot about his limited screen time. "You know sometimes I'm not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like 'child kills parents after a decade of physical...

It's a tale as old as ... well, about 20 years or so. Dad gets mad at deadbeat son, tells him to get a job, get out of the house, make some real friends. But this time, unfortunately, things take a really awful turn. That guy ... I don't want to assume anything, but he looks like he could stand to get out of the basement now and then. That's all I'm saying! Joseph Voigt, 23, was taken into custody Sunday morning after fleeing his family home, where he allegedly gunned down his father and grievously wounded his mother after...

Reuters is at it again with their team of ‘fact checkers’. They’re targeting The Babylon Bee, a satirical website, over an article that states the most favoured farewell in the UK, ‘cheerio mate’ has been replaced with ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The humorous satire piece states, “A recent poll conducted by the University of Oxford just revealed that ‘Allahu Akbar’ has officially replaced ‘Cheerio, mate!’ as the most popular greeting in the UK,” adding that experts called the results of the “survey” a “flippin’ landslide, old bean.” Kyle Mann, the Editor-in-Chief of the Babylon Bee, shared the lunacy on X, noting that...

An OnlyFans porn star broke down in tears after sleeping with 100 men in a single day in order to gain social media clout. Actually 101. Lily Phillips thought that having sex with so many men would catapult her to viral fame, and it did briefly, but she’s now counting the cost. In a documentary made by YouTuber Josh Pieters titled I Slept With 100 Men in One Day, Pieters almost vomits at the sight of a bedroom littered with lube, used condoms, wrappers and tissues after Phillips had spent a nauseating 14 hours fornicating. “It’s not for the weak...

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania — about 230 miles west of New York City — after a McDonald's customer recognized him and notified an employee.

The breakthrough — achieving this "below threshold" milestone — means that errors in a quantum computer will reduce exponentially as you add more physical qubits. It charts a path for scaling up quantum machines in the future. The technology relies on logical qubits. This is a qubit encoded using a collection of physical qubits in a lattice formation. All the physical qubits in a single logical qubit share the same data, meaning if any qubits fail, calculations continue because the information can still be found within the logical qubit.

Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services Tuesday announced plans for an “Ultracluster,” a massive AI supercomputer made up of hundreds of thousands of its homegrown Trainium chips, as well as a new server, the latest efforts by its AI chip design lab based in Austin, Texas. The chip cluster will be used by the AI startup Anthropic, in which the retail and cloud-computing giant recently invested an additional $4 billion. The cluster, called Project Rainier, will be located in the U.S. When ready in 2025, it will be one of the largest in the world for training AI models,...

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