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  • Sam Altman Is ‘Optimistic’ He Can Get the AI Laws He Wants

    Sam Altman Is ‘Optimistic’ He Can Get the AI Laws He Wants

    Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, is wrapping up a jet-setting tour of meetings with world leaders in an effort to steer global AI regulation. Altman and his company want lawmakers thinking more about a potential future where AI destroys society, and less about not the problems AI will wreak in the short…


  • Room-Temperature Superconductors Could Revolutionise Electronics

    Room-Temperature Superconductors Could Revolutionise Electronics

    Superconductors make highly efficient electronics, but the ultralow temperatures and ultrahigh pressures required to make them work are costly and difficult to implement. Room-temperature superconductors promise to change that. The recent announcement by researchers at the University of Rochester of a new material that is a superconductor at room temperature, albeit at high pressure, is…


  • Why Google Isn’t Rushing Forward With AI Chatbots

    Why Google Isn’t Rushing Forward With AI Chatbots

    The success this year of powerful new generative artificial intelligence models like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, have laid the groundwork for a new era of AI tech set to explode even further in 2023. Google, though equipped with its own powerful (but definitely not sentient) LaMDA AI chatbot, says it doesn’t…


  • The Future Of Motorcycles Could Be Powered Bicycles

    The Future Of Motorcycles Could Be Powered Bicycles

    Motorcycles are great. Sometimes, when the weather is beautiful, the road is winding, and the traffic is non-existent, I think bikes might even be better than cars. But motorcycles are also expensive, dangerous, too powerful, not all that great for the environment, and occasionally incredibly out of touch with buyers. The motorcycle industry is going…