The energy and transportation industries are being aggressively disrupted by converging exponential technologies.
In just five days, the sun provides Earth with an energy supply...
Sensors and robotics are two exponential technologies that will disrupt a multitude of billion-dollar industries.
This post (part 3 of 4) is a quick look at...
Four revolutions in transportation are taking place this decade.
This post is a look at how they will shape your life, your business and our world.
In...
COMPUTING
To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light
Will Knight | Wired
"Lightmatter wants to directly connect hundreds of thousands or even millions of...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Cognition Emerges From Stealth to Launch AI Software Engineer Devin
Shubham Sharma | VentureBeat
"The human user simply types a natural language prompt into Devin’s...
TECH
These Companies Have a Plan to Kill Apps
Julian Chokkattu | Wired
"Everyone wants to kill the app. There’s a wave of companies building so-called app-less...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google DeepMind’s New Generative Model Makes Super Mario-Like Games From Scratch
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"OpenAI’s recent reveal of its stunning generative model...
Artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere. Right now, generative AI in particular—tools like Midjourney, ChatGPT, Gemini (previously Bard), and others—is at the peak of hype.
But...
COMPUTING
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
Keach Hagey | The Wall Street Journal
"The OpenAI chief executive officer is...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Mark Zuckerberg’s New Goal Is Creating Artificial General Intelligence
Alex Heath | The Verge
"Fueling the generative AI craze is a belief that the tech...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI’s New App Store Could Turn ChatGPT Into an Everything App
Lauren Goode | Wired
"OpenAI calls these apps GPTs. By some measures they are...
Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off
Matthew Smith | IEEE Spectrum
"The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google DeepMind’s AI Pop Star Clone Will Freak You Out
Angela Watercutter | Wired
"Two new tools using DeepMind’s music generation algorithm Lyria let anyone...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Personalized AI Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?
Kevin Roose | The New York Times
"Very soon, tech companies tell us, AI 'agents'...
FUTURE
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, on His Hopes and Fears for the Future of AI
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"A lot of what...
VIRTUAL REALITY
The Las Vegas Sphere Makes Virtual Reality a Full-Body Experience
Steven Levy | Wired
"You know that movie Tron where someone got sucked into a video game?...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an AI Device
Tripp Mickle and Cade Metz | The New York Times
" and their...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT
Will Knight | Wired
"Dall-E 3 will...let users refine a creation through ChatGPT, as if...
ROBOTICS
This Driverless Car Company Is Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"Self-driving car startup Wayve can now interrogate...
Shifting to battery-powered vehicles is an essential step in tackling climate change, but it's also creating worryingly large amounts of e-waste and demand for...
Switching from combustion-engine cars to electric vehicles is going to be an important part of the renewable energy transition. But for the switch to...
AUTOMATION
High-Speed AI Drone Beats World-Champion Racers for the First Time
Benj Edwards | Ars Technica
"On Wednesday, a team of researchers from the University of Zürich...
Deep space is a hostile environment for humans, which makes the long journey to Mars a serious stumbling block for manned missions. A nuclear-powered...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Does Sam Altman Know What He's Creating?
Ross Andersen | The Atlantic
"i'We could have gone off and just built this in our building here...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google DeepMind’s CEO Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT
Will Knight | Wired
"DeepMind’s Gemini, which is still in development, is a large language model that...
Robots are slowly getting smarter, mostly thanks to advances in artificial intelligence that enable them to learn on their own rather than requiring constant...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Geoffrey Hinton Tells Us Why He’s Now Scared of the Tech He Helped Build
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"Hinton says that the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over
Will Knight | Wired
"Altman’s statement suggests that GPT-4 could be the last...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to the Internet
Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch
" launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Original Startup Behind Stable Diffusion Has Launched a Generative AI for Video
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"In a demo reel posted...
TECH
ChatGPT May Be the Fastest Growing App in History
Lauren Leffer | Gizmodo
"In January, just two months after the program’s public launch, ChatGPT reached 100...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate AI
Cade Metz and Karen Weise | The New York Times
"Microsoft is...
As the sense of urgency around climate change intensifies, most of the focus is on shifting energy production away from fossil fuels and electrifying...
Big companies like Amazon and Walmart have recently been testing drone delivery, flying customers’ orders to them through traffic-less skies. Given the volume of...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Generative AI Is Changing Everything. But What’s Left When the Hype Is Gone?
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"The exciting truth is, we...
FUTURE
Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips
Kevin Kelly | Wired
"For the first time in history, humans can conjure up everyday acts of creativity on demand,...
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Neoplants Bioengineers Houseplants to Use Them as Air Purifiers
Romain Dillet | TechCrunch
"Neoplants targets specifically a group of indoor air pollutants that can’t be efficiently...
Thanks to its mild climate, expansive highway network, and lax regulations, Texas has become the country’s proving ground for driverless trucks. From cargo to...
