#science-fiction

#science-fiction

Swiss researchers were able to use AI in implants that acted as a bridge between the spine and brain, allowing a paralyzed man to walk.Since 2011, a man by the name of Gert-Jan Oskam had been paralyzed from the hips down after a motorcycle accident.Due to the accident, his spine had become injured and communication between it and his brain had been broken.

Boffins at the University of California, Berkeley, have delved into the undisclosed depths of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the GPT-4 large language model at its heart, and found they're trained on text from copyrighted books.Academics Kent Chang, Mackenzie Cramer, Sandeep Soni, and David Bamman describe their work in a paper titled, "Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4."
"We find that OpenAI models have memorized a wide collection of copyrighted materials, and that the degree of memorization is tied to the frequency with which passages of those books appear on the web," the researchers explain in their paper.

No matter what science fiction says, it's hard to imagine humans will ever be able to stomp around a planet in another planetary system looking for life - the distances, time, and energy involved are simply too great.But what if we could look somewhere else? Somewhere a little closer to home?What if fossilized alien microbes are already coming to visit us-even if it's by accident?

Hello!I'm here to help you learn and grow.Let's get started on your learning journey.undefined The new, A.I.-assisted Khanmigo allows students to chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software.Khan Academy, the popular online learning nonprofit, recently developed an experimental A.I.-assisted tutoring bot for schools called Khanmigo.

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Leaked documents reveal Amazon has a new generative AI technology called Burnham that could make its Astro home robot a whole lot smarter.If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission.See our ethics statement.As a smart home reviewer of a certain age, all I've ever wanted for my home is a Rosie the Robot.

Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans?That's the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks.

04:34 Screens display the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT in Toulouse, southwestern France, on January 23, 2023.Lionel Bonaventure, AFP An open letter signed by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and many others, is warning against 'profound risks to society and humanity'.Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans?

The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT on March 21, in Boston.A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks of powerful artificial intelligence technology.

The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, on March 21, 2023, in Boston.Michael Dwyer (AP) Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans?That's the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks.

This week, we're joined by Tufts professor Justin Hollander to talk about his new book The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet.We talk about the importance of urban planners in thinking about cities and transportation on Mars, what we can learn from Antarctica and the International Space Station, and what a Mars metro region might look like.

This week we welcome Draga Doncila Pop as our PyDev of the Week!Draga is a core developer of the napari package, which is a multi-dimensional image viewer for Python.Draga also speaks at Python conferences about Python and data visualization.You can see what else Draga is up to by visiting Draga's GitHub profile.

When Wes Anderson comes down from Paris for the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France, he and his actors don't stay in one of Cannes' luxury hotels but more than an hour down the coast and well outside the frenzy of the festival.When we arrived here yesterday, we arrived at a calm, peaceful hotel, Anderson said in a interview.

Because of rapid advances in AI, Oscar-winner Tom Hanks believes that he'll still be in movies long after his death.Though this might be strange to some, he may not be wrong due to new deepfake technologies and other programs.The actor came to this conclusion while speaking on The Adam Buxton Podcast.

Clara Moskowitz: We're here today to talk about time travel.A perennial dare I say, timelesstopic of science fiction, but is it possible?Is there any chance at all that it could actually happen?Lee Billings: No. No, no no no no.(laughs).Well, kinda.Not really.ARGH.I'm Lee Billings.Moskowitz: I'm Clara Moskowitz, and this is Cosmos Quickly, the biweekly space podcast from Scientific American.

On Sunday, a Twitter user with the screen name Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood tweeted a command to his approximately 14,000 followers:

This tweet, encouraging followers to read the science fiction novel This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, unexpectedly went mega-viral, and for the past few days El-Mohtar has watched in shock as her book has rocketed up the Amazon charts.

This summer, there's nothing so new on television as something old.Series are emerging two years (The Witcher), four (Black Mirror), eight (Justified: Primeval City), 10 (Futurama) and 25 (The Full Monty) after you last had to think about them or the works from which they have been spun off.On the other hand, it's also a bountiful summer for newer favorites, full of the second or third or fourth seasons of popular or praiseworthy (sometimes both) recent shows like The Bear, Heartstopper, How to With John Wilson, Never Have I Ever, Only Murders in the Building, Physical, Reservation Dogs and Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.

Jeremy Paxman has signed off University Challenge for the last time, saying he is looking forward to watching it along with fans at home.The 73-year-old veteran broadcaster and former Newsnight presenter has hosted the series since the BBC revived it in 1994 until Monday's episode.Paxman had announced he was stepping down from the quiz show a year after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

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Blue Origin is just one company trying to craft solar cells out of lunar dirt, with the goal of one day making human outposts on the Moon possible.The idea of using dirt on the Moon to manufacture solar cells, which could power a permanent human settlement, may seem outlandish, but two companies say they've made big progress on that front: they each say they've already made solar cells using fake Moon dirt.

Suzy McKee Charnas, an award-winning feminist science fiction writer who in a four-novel series created a post-holocaust, male-dominated society called the Holdfast that is liberated by an army of women, died on Jan. 2 at her home in Albuquerque.She was 83.David Szanton, a cousin, said the cause was a heart attack.

If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet?It may be, a new paper argues, that they - or, in the future, we - inevitably get wiped out by ultra-strong artificial intelligence, victims of our own drive to create a superior being.This potential answer to the Fermi paradox - in which physicist Enrico Fermi and subsequent generations pose the question: " where is everybody?"

J.A.R.V.I.S. as depicted in Age of Ultron, before he turned into a purple Paul Bettany.Image from https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/J.A.R.V.I.S.In science fiction, one of the main indications that the characters are living in the high-tech future is an insanely smart, AI voice assistant.

J.A.R.V.I.S. as depicted in Age of Ultron, before he turned into a purple Paul Bettany.Image from - https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/J.A.R.V.I.S.In science fiction, one of the main indications that the characters are living in the high-tech future is an insanely smart, AI voice assistant.

It's normal for furniture designers to find inspiration from some pretty unusual sources.We've seen things that were inspired by nature, pop culture, art, architecture, and sometimes even science fiction.Sometimes we even get companies that are not necessarily furniture makers to create a line inspired by their original products to commemorate something or just because they can.

What better way to commemorate the greatest work of science fiction than with some science fiction of our own?!These imaginary (fictitious) timepieces were created using Midjourney's AI art generator (science).Every year, on the fourth of May, sci-fi aficionados celebrate Star Wars Day.The day, colloquially referred to as "May the Fourth be with you" is a play on Han Solo's iconic dialogue "May the force be with you".