Anthropic liegt bei seinen Businessplänen vor OpenAI. Eine neue gigantische Investition soll den Vorsprung sichern. (Anthropic, Prozessor)
A recent die-off in Florida puts the spotlight on corals’ survival strategies.
Scientists have found that the 2023 marine heat wave caused “functional extinction” of two Acropora reef-building coral species living in the Florida Reef, which stretches from the Dry Tortugas National Park to Miami.
“At this point, we do not think there’s much of a chance for natural recovery—their numbers are so low that successful reproduction is incredibly unlikely,” said Ross Cunning, a coral biologist at the John G. Shedd Aquarium.
This isn’t the first time corals have faced the borderline of extinction over the last 460 million years, and they have always managed to bounce back and recolonize habitats lost during severe climate changes. The problem is that we won’t live long enough to see them doing that again.
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.
Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called “world models,” the Financial Times reported. The French-US scientist has reportedly told associates he will depart in the coming months and is already in early talks to raise funds for the new venture. The departure comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg radically overhauled Meta’s AI operations after deciding the company had fallen behind rivals such as OpenAI and Google.
World models are hypothetical AI systems that some AI engineers expect to develop an internal “understanding” of the physical world by learning from video and spatial data rather than text alone. Unlike current large language models (such as the kind that power ChatGPT) that predict the next segment of data in a sequence, world models would ideally simulate cause-and-effect scenarios, understand physics, and enable machines to reason and plan more like animals do. LeCun has said this architecture could take a decade to fully develop.
While some AI experts believe that Transformer-based AI models—such as large language models, video synthesis models, and interactive world synthesis models—have emergently modeled physics or absorbed the structural rules of the physical world from training data examples, the evidence so far generally points to sophisticated pattern-matching rather than a base understanding of how the physical world actually works.
A few years ago Solder Party started selling tiny USB keyboards made by combining an actual BlackBerry keyboard (ripped from an old device) with a custom PCB and USB-C connector. But since BlackBerry is out of business, eventually it’s going to g…
A few years ago Solder Party started selling tiny USB keyboards made by combining an actual BlackBerry keyboard (ripped from an old device) with a custom PCB and USB-C connector. But since BlackBerry is out of business, eventually it’s going to get harder to find devices to cannibalize for their keyboards. So Solder Party has […]
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A few years ago Solder Party started selling tiny USB keyboards made by combining an actual BlackBerry keyboard (ripped from an old device) with a custom PCB and USB-C connector. But since BlackBerry is out of business, eventually it’s going to g…
A few years ago Solder Party started selling tiny USB keyboards made by combining an actual BlackBerry keyboard (ripped from an old device) with a custom PCB and USB-C connector. But since BlackBerry is out of business, eventually it’s going to get harder to find devices to cannibalize for their keyboards. So Solder Party has […]
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“I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. You’re in for a really weird night.”
Director Gore Verbinski has racked up an impressive filmography over the years, from The Ring and the first three installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise to the 2011 Oscar-nominated animated western Rango. Granted, he’s had his share of failures (*cough* The Lone Ranger *cough*), but if this trailer is any indication, Verbinski has another winner on his hands with the absurdist sci-fi dark comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
Sam Rockwell stars as the otherwise unnamed “Man from the Future,” who shows up at a Los Angeles diner looking like a homeless person but claiming to be a time traveler from an apocalyptic future. He’s there to recruit the locals into his war against a rogue AI, although the diner patrons are understandably dubious about his sanity. (“I come from a nightmare apocalypse,” he assures the crowd about his grubby appearance. “This is the height of f*@ing fashion!”) Somehow, he convinces a handful of Angelenos to join his crusade, and judging by the remaining footage, all kinds of chaos breaks out.
In addition to the eminently watchable Rockwell, the cast includes Haley Lu Richardson as Ingrid, Michael Pena as Mark, Zazie Beetz as Janet, and Juno Temple as Susan. Dino Fetscher, Anna Acton, Asim Chaudhury, Daniel Barnett, and Domonique Maher also appear in as-yet-undisclosed roles. Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying, Love and Monsters) penned the script. This is Verbinski’s first indie film, and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of distributor Briarcliff Entertainment, praised it as “wildly original, endlessly entertaining, and unlike anything audiences have seen before.” Color us intrigued.
Ideal für Weihnachten, Silvester und gemütliche Abende: Das Tefal-Raclette für bis zu zehn Personen ist wieder zum Tiefstpreis erhältlich. (Technik/Hardware)
Ideal für Weihnachten, Silvester und gemütliche Abende: Das Tefal-Raclette für bis zu zehn Personen ist wieder zum Tiefstpreis erhältlich. (Technik/Hardware) Meta, AWS und Google Cloud starten Seekabelprojekte der Superlative. Die Investitionen sind Teil des KI-Ausbaus. (Seekabel, KI)
Echt lustig: Der erste Trailer zu The Super Mario Galaxy Movie dürfte Bowser gar nicht gefallen. Der Film kommt schon recht bald in die Kinos. (Super Mario, Nintendo)
Echt lustig: Der erste Trailer zu The Super Mario Galaxy Movie dürfte Bowser gar nicht gefallen. Der Film kommt schon recht bald in die Kinos. (Super Mario, Nintendo) Amazon hat einen Selfiestick mit Stativ im Angebot, der vielfältige Optionen für spektakuläre Foto- und Videoaufnahmen bietet. (Technik/Hardware)
Amazon hat einen Selfiestick mit Stativ im Angebot, der vielfältige Optionen für spektakuläre Foto- und Videoaufnahmen bietet. (Technik/Hardware) 
Anthropic liegt bei seinen Businessplänen vor OpenAI. Eine neue gigantische Investition soll den Vorsprung sichern. (
Meta, AWS und Google Cloud starten Seekabelprojekte der Superlative. Die Investitionen sind Teil des KI-Ausbaus. (