In this episode, Peter Diamandis and Emad Mostaque the CEO and Co-Founder of Stability AI, discuss the AI revolution. Emad Mostaque is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stability AI, a company funding the development of […]
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Mining the Moon to Lift Off Within 10 Years — NASA
The US space agency (NASA) is looking to operate a pilot processing plant for lunar resources by 2032, as part of its planned Artemis missions. According to Gerald Sanders, a NASA scientist, the government body […]
Nvidia CEO Huang: Get Ready for Software 3.0
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said that AI is ushering in the era of Software 3.0, where creating apps will be as simple as writing queries into a universal AI translator, running a few lines of […]
How To Regulate AI, If You Must
Jon Stokes argues that “The rules are definitely coming, so let’s make sure they lead to a future we want.” AI is both extremely powerful and entirely new to the human experience. Its power means […]
AI Anthology
Microsoft invites 20 experts, with specialties spanning the fields of business, economics, education, engineering, health, history, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology, and the sciences, to explore the capabilities of GPT-4 and provide their insightful reflections in […]
Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet
The Search Generative Experience seems more like a text-copying experience. Search has always been the Internet’s most important utility. Before Google became dominant, there were many contenders for the search throne, from Altavista to Lycos, […]
AI Hacks the Operating System of Human Civilisation
Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari. What would happen once a non-human intelligence becomes better than the average human at telling stories, composing melodies, […]
AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future
Despite the buzz surrounding it, the prominence of prompt engineering may be fleeting. Prompt engineering has taken the generative AI world by storm. The job, which entails optimizing textual input to effectively communicate with large […]
AI Will Create ‘More Losers than Winners’
Big investor says Nvidia chipmaker will be among handful of tech groups to drive stocks higher. Nvidia is one of a handful of companies that will sustain this year’s rebound in US stocks even as […]
AI Panic = AI Hype
There’s a combination of hype, ill-will, marketing, and paranoia fueling the current AI spin cycle that all but camouflage any real crimes against humanity that may be enacted through these technologies. Creating a large language […]
Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers
On a stop in London, the OpenAI CEO called for balanced regulation and warned of the risks of deepfake disinformation. The excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the […]
Software 3.0 — The Era of Intelligent Software Development
Software 2.0 is revolutionizing how we develop a meaningful yet small portion of our software, while Software 3.0 stack will take us into the era of ubiquitous intelligent software development accessible to everyone. “Standing on […]
The Mirror of Language
The age of thinking machines will be a new age of mystics extracting truth from hidden worlds. The new generative AI models like GPT-3 and DALL-E have amazing powers. They can generate essays, stories, scripts, […]
The Age of AI has Begun
Bill Gates outlines why Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet. In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, […]
Technology Over The Long Run
Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades. Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable, […]
Our Society Is Not Prepared For This Much Awesome
Almost all of the fears around AI right now boil down to one thing: fear about what happens when a whole bunch of people, instantly level up and get really good at making cultural objects. […]
The Next Generation Of Large Language Models
What will the next generation of large language models (LLMs) look like? The answer to this question is already out there, under development at AI startups and research groups at this very moment. It is […]
Why VR/AR Gets Farther Away as It Comes Into Focus
When Neal Stephenson wrote “Snow Crash” in 1992, he set it in the future – at a time where more than a hundred million people used AR/VR glasses regularly. When do you think it was? […]
Becoming Strange in the Long Singularity
A sudden increase in AI capability suggests a weirder world in our near future. I already know people who are training GPT on their own writings, and interrogating “themselves” to discover new insights. I have […]
Last Year Marked the End of an Era in Spaceflight – Here’s What We’re Watching Next
2022 was a momentous one in spaceflight, bringing to a close many of the most significant storylines that have dominated this industry in the last 10 to 15 years. Consider the state of play in […]
Don’t Let Disney Monopolise A.I.-Generated Art
The indie artists suing Stable Diffusion may not realise it, but they’re doing the Mouse’s dirty work. Disney and the rest of Hollywood have been eerily quiet about the launch of Stable Diffusion, despite the […]
The Permaweird
Venkatesh Rao argues that there is no polycrisis, only nostalgia for an imagined present. Crisis theories (and names) are popular. Adam Tooze’s term polycrisis currently seems to be winning. Adam Elkus, coined a similar term, […]
Machine Learning And Deflationary Contagions
Here’s the most common question I get from members of the press, analysts, and others I talk to about generative AI: can you describe what impact this will have on my industry? Moore’s Law and […]
AI and the Big Five
This may be the beginning of the AI epoch, but even in tech, epochs take a decade or longer to transform everything around them. The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with […]
The Fourth Age Of Programming
As flashy as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are, old heads know that the Robot Apocalypse has exactly one and only one horseman: computer programs that can write computer programs. Artificially intelligent machines can’t ascend to […]
This Year in Tech Felt Like a Simulation
This year in tech, too much happened and very little of it made sense, so we might just be at the whims of a random number generator. This year in tech, too much happened and […]
China’s New Space Station Opens for Business
The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can live in orbit. On Nov. 29, 2022, the Shenzhou 15 mission launched from China’s Gobi Desert carrying three taikonauts – the Chinese […]
Yuga Labs Is Hiring the ‘Best and Brightest’ to Build the Next Internet, CEO Says
Nicole Muniz clarified the fundamental differences between NFTs and JPEG images, as well as declared Yuga’s intent to hire top Web3 talent. Nicole Muniz, CEO Yuga Labs, spoke on center stage at Lisbon’s annual technology […]
Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 Is Not the Web
Berners-Lee said people too often conflate Web3 with “Web 3.0,” his own proposal for reshaping the internet. Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, said Friday that […]
Spider-Verse 2025: Streaming 24/7. No Reruns. Forever
What does the future of entertainment look like once the larger IP holders fully embrace AI content generation? Alongside the discrete cultural products made (at least in part) by humans — blockbuster movies, prestige TV […]