INDEPENDENT SIGNALS FROM THE TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIER
A restrained selection of positive and neutral developments across artificial intelligence, science, space, computing and engineering.
It's widely believed AI's inner workings are largely inscrutable. A former OpenAI researcher now says this narrative could be wrong. The post Is AI Really a Black Box? Neural Networks May Be Easier to Understand Than We Thought appeared fir
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A demo of error-corrected qubits shows big reductions in errors as they grow.
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Search and rescue technology developed in part by NASA saved five lives
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Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 24) appeared first on SingularityHub .
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AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
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Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
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From orbit, today’s space-based laser instruments measure Earth’s forests and terrain one narrow line at a time. Between those lines are enormous gaps that include millions of acres of land scientists never directly measure. NASA’s CASALS i
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There is no big red button or glass box hiding a lever. The post Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI appeared first on SingularityHub .
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Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too.
Read story ↗More from today’s quiet edge of progress.