Re: Mimicking the Mind: Quantum Material Exhibits Brain-Like “Non-Local” Behavior

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 8:41 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *> Mimicking the Mind: Quantum Material Exhibits Brain-Like “Non-Local” > Behavior (scitechdaily.com) >

The GPU Song

Nvidia’s H100 chip has become so popular due to its use in AI and the shortage of them has become so acute that "Weird Al" Yankovic has written a parody song about it : The GPU Song (GPUs Are Fire) John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at

NYTimes.com: Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners The audio sounds like it’s being played underwater. Still, it’s a first step toward

Re: Kaku says fears of AI overblown; I agree

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:48 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > > https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/business/ai-quantum-computer-kaku/index.html > Michio Kaku is a crank, but I can see why you like him because he is also a flying

Testing GPT-4 with Wolfram Alpha and Code Interpreter plug-ins

Ernest Davis and Scott Aaronson tested GPT-4 that had Wolfram Alpha and Code Interpreter plug-ins on a number of math and science problems. Aaronson said if it had been a human he would judge him to be an enthusiastic B student, maybe a B+. I think it's very impressive considering the fact that 10

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

it would be so bright it would be hard to tell the difference between it and an entire galaxy that was so distant it was almost a point source in our telescopes. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> lqn > > > >

Can AI be contained?

I think the answer is clearly *NO*. Can AI Be Contained? + New Realistic AI Avatars and AI Rights in 2 Years John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis cbc -- You received this message because

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

ted because the antimatter version of the negatively charged electron is the positron, and it's positively charged. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> pce > > Brent > > On 8/10/2023 12:20 PM, John Clark wrote: &g

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:04 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> How, would a dark star function? If we found one, in actuality, could we > somehow construct a fusion reactor that runs on dark energy.* > Even the universe doesn't know how to

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 7:42 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> Does the idea that colliders should have already found WIMPs depend on > the "naturalness" idea at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalness_(physics) > which requires > supersymmetric

NYTimes.com: Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue Astronomers have found that free-floating planets far outnumber those bound to a host star.

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:56 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> Being a Trumpkin myself, with a little RFK on the side,* RFK! If you put a gun to my head and I had to pick somebody even dumber than Trump it would be RFK. I mean, the COVID

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:25 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Yes, typical Trumpering* [blah blah] tWow, calling a guy known for disliking Trump a Trumper, never heard that one before, at least I never heard it before except by you about 1003 times before. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 1:17 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>Consistent with your de facto Trumper* [blah blah] Wow, calling a guy known for disliking Trump a Trumper, never heard that one before, at least I never heard it before except by you about 1002 times before. John K ClarkSee what's on

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:54 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> As far as consciousness is concerned, you've done your research on AG > and determined his creation was remarkably similar to yours. Hence, if you > consider yourself conscious, you can extend that belief to AG.* But I don't believe that

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 10:52 PM Alan Grayson wrote: >> JC: I just insist that it's equally logical for me to conclude an AI is > conscious as it is for me to conclude that Alan Grayson is conscious. >*AG: That's wrong.* > So Alan Grayson is not conscious, not even when he's not sleeping or

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 4:28 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> This is a dumb discussion.* I've noticed. > * > You admit, more or less, that you don't know what consciousness is, > yet you insist that's what AI is manifesting.* No, I don't insist that an AI must be conscious, I just insist that

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 3:31 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> If you insist on huge distortions of what UFO believers claim, there's > no point in continuing this discussion. It's not unike Trumpers who* > [blah blah] Wow, calling a guy known for disliking Trump a Trumper, never heard that one before,

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 3:25 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> It's pretty clear, in fact obvious, that you regard other human beings > as conscious* YES. > > *for the reasons I stated.* NO. For thousands of years, long before anyone knew anything about Evolution or electronics or much of anything

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 1:59 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> The fact is about 5% of the sightings are inexplicable* The flying saucer nuts say that precisely 0.0% of the sightings are inexplicable, they identify every single one of them, they insist that anything they see in the sky that they don't

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 1:44 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Yes, because you believe YOU are conscious and we're similarly > constituted; that is, created by a virtually identical process.* If the process that created you is *virtually *identical with the process that created me then you and I are

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 11:06 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> AFAIK, all attempts to create life in a test tube have failed.* Artificial life made in lab can grow and divide like natural bacteria

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 9:52 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > A monumental UFO scandal is looming > A former and possible future President of the United

Re: GPT-5 is closer than you think and may be thinking better than you think

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 12:46 AM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> unless anyone objects, why not test drive 5 and company, with QC?* It will take a while before any Quantum Computer can run anything as large as GPT, but it is now apparent

GPT-5 is closer than you think and may be thinking better than you think

Siqi Chen, an industry insider says that he has been told GPT-5 "is SO much closer than most people think" and it will be much more than just an incremental improvement . Specifically he says: *"GPT-5 is scheduled to complete training by as early as December and Open AI expects it to achieve

Re: The prediction market and Superconductivity

ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> vvc On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:18 AM John Clark wrote: > Although far from perfect the prediction market has a better record of > correct predictions than just about anybody or anything else,

The prediction market and Superconductivity

Although far from perfect the prediction market has a better record of correct predictions than just about anybody or anything else, it changes from minute to minute but at the time I'm writing, 8AM eastern time in the US, it gives a 52% chance that the Korean claim that LK-99, the material they

Re: Worms that have been dead for over 45,000 years have been brought back to life

On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 7:44 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> If we go by Kurzweil, and I am open to his views, that day will be 7 > years away in 2030. His view? Medical nanotechnology that will make K. Eric > Drexler, a happy primate.*

The most economically productive decade eve

Mustafa Suleyman had been the head of AI at Google but then he quit and started his own AI company, Inflection AI, which is backed by Nvidia, he says in a recent Barron's article that because of AI we are now entering "the most economically productive decade ever". He also says this about his own

The Day After Trinity

Until August 1 you can watch "The Day After Trinity'' for free, it's a superb documentary about J Robert Oppenheimer. It's on the Criterion Channel, no subscription is needed and currently it is the most watched thing on it. I remember watching it in 1981 and it's just as good now as it was then.

Re: Worms that have been dead for over 45,000 years have been brought back to life

On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 12:15 AM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: * means of survival, so this looks like evidence to me that you may be > correct? * > It's favorable evidence but it doesn't prove that human Cryonics will work, however it

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 12:04 AM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Personally, I would like the cosmos to be occupied by evolved, > technological, minds. > Most people feel the same way, that's why such things are so abundant in popular culture

Re: Superconductivity

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 5:48 AM smitra wrote: > > *> We'll have to see! Commentary from experts leans to this result more > likely being due to strong paramagnetism rather than the Meissner effect > characteristic of superconductivity.* > Yeah, it sounds a little too good to be true, but I

Robots

Apparently Google thinks the future of the company lies not in building robots but in building robot operating systems, it found a way for large language models to teach robots how to move and it explains why they sold Boston Dynamics back in 2017, about the same time google published its famous

Worms that have been dead for over 45,000 years have been brought back to life

Scientists have brought back to life Nematode worms that have been buried 130 feet under the Siberian permafrost for between 45,839 and 47,769 years according to Carbon-14 tests. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany have now bred these worms for over 100 generations (worm

Superconductivity

In March the journal Nature published an article claiming that a room temperature Superconductor had been discovered. Evidence of near-ambient superconductivity in a N-doped lutetium hydride I was a little surprised Nature decided to publish

Re: Non-human intelligence legislation proposal

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 9:44 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Most senators think all classified UFO documents have NOT been released.* If most senators think that X is true then you can be about 70% certain that X is not true. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

Re: Oppenheimer

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 2:24 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *>Hollyweird probably won't do a pic ever on Teller, Ulam, Garwin, who made > America's first H-Bombs.* > The people in Hollywood like money as most people do, so If Oppenheimer is

Oppenheimer

I just saw the movie "Oppenheimer" and it's excellent, I highly recommend it. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis r0j -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

Re: Non-human intelligence legislation proposal

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 8:44 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> If its true lets find out?* > Intelligent knowledgeable people have investigated if it's true and the answer is always the same.* NO.* But some just don't like that answer so

Re: An eternal blissful life

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 6:15 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> I was an Extropian back then.* > Me too, I joined in 1993 but was kicked out in 2020 for displaying insufficient enthusiasm for Donald Trump. You'd probably love it over there

An eternal blissful life

I recently read an article on Big Think that reminded me of something I wrote on the old Cryonics Mailing List 29 years ago on January 19, 1994: "*Ever want to accomplish something but have been unable to because It's difficult, well just change your goal in life to something simple and do that;

My conversation with GPT-4 competitor Claude-2

*Me: What is Bell's inequality?* *Claude-2: Bell's inequality, also known as Bell's theorem, is a concept in quantum mechanics that describes the correlations between quantum particles. It states that if certain assumptions about hidden variables hold true, then the results of measurements on

Bad AI Predictions

*As recently as 2021 experts were publicly making predictions about things that computers were nowhere close to being able to do that today seem ridiculously naïve. The world is about to radically change. * * Bad AI Predictions * John K ClarkSee

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 4:14 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> Some have indicated the discoveries of Webb have disproven the Big Bang, > and the Standard Model. What do you say?* > The existence of the Big Bang is on very firm ground and

Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

As early as 2012 scientists predicted that the Hubble telescope would see something they called a "Dark Star". Observing supermassive dark stars with James Webb Space Telescope They theorized in the early universe Dark

Re: Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 3:22 PM Terren Suydam wrote: *>It's hard to know how to think about this kind of risk. It's safe to say > EY has done more thinking on this issue than just about anyone, and he's > one of the smartest people on the planet, probably. I've been following him > for over a

Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED

Recently Eliezer Yudkowsky gave a TED talk and basically said the human race is doomed. You can see it on YouTube and I put the following in the comment section: -- I think Eliezer was right when he said nobody can predict what moves a chess program like Stockfish will make but you can predict

NYTimes.com: ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’ Douglas Hofstadter is re-examining his stance on artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk announced XAI - the answer to OpenAI?

Today Elon Musk announced that he has an AI of his own and he intends it to compete with GPT-4 and Google which he says are too "woke". He calls it XAI. He says he wants the fundamental goal of the machine to be understanding reality because then it won't want to destroy us because we are an

Re: Time Until Superintelligence and the Singularity, 20 Years or 8 Years or 2?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 9:19 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> I am following along the March statement by Ray Kurzweil forecasting a > first push at human immortality at 2030. For this to occur something > revolutionary must happen with

Re: Time Until Superintelligence and the Singularity, 20 Years or 8 Years or 2?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 1:46 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *> Whenever AI is installed on reliable quantum computers. Yes above 100 > successful operations per second I will hold with your prediction.* OpenAI, the company that made

Time Until Superintelligence and the Singularity, 20 Years or 8 Years or 2?

Time Until Superintelligence: 1-2 Years, or 20? John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis ibtr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List"

GPE-4 tests into the top 1% for original creative thinking

The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is a 90 minute test psychologist use to measure creativity in humans. Recently GPT-4 was given the test and its results were compared with 2700 college students who took the TTCT in 2016. The Scholastic Testing Service, which graded GPT-4 results,

Douglas Hofstadter on the recent exponential increase machine intelligence

Douglas Hofstadter wrote my favorite book of all time, Gödel Escher Bach, so I was very interested in this interview he gave just a few days ago about AI. As recently as 2022 Hofstadter was saying that GPT-3, the most advanced AI available at the time, was not conscious and it would be hundreds

What Trump's own people say about him

What Trump's own people say about him John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis 7fx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 5:05 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study > suggests | Live Science* >

NYTimes.com: A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too For thousands of years, mathematicians have adapted to the latest advances in logic and reasoning. Are they ready for

The Euclid satellite

Tomorrow June 1 at 11:12 AM the Euclid satellite will be launched by SpaceX at Cape Kennedy, it had been set to be launched by Russia but after they invaded Ukraine they pulled out and SpaceX took over. Euclid is a €1.4 billion project designed to investigate Dark Energy, the mysterious force

A newfound gravitational wave ‘hum’ may be from the universe’s biggest black holes

A newfound gravitational wave ‘hum’ may be from the universe’s biggest black holes John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis t5o -- You received this message

NYTimes.com: The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find Radio telescopes around the world picked up a telltale hum reverberating across the cosmos,

Google Gemini: AlphaGo-GPT?

Anybody who still thinks the Singularity will only happen in the distant future needs to watch this video. Google Gemini: AlphaGo-GPT? John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis 5bl -- You

Re: Life as electrons??

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 5:45 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > PHILOSOPHER V NEUROSCIENTIST. 1-0. > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8 > I'm not surprised that philosopher David Chalmers won the bet, but I am surprised that

Re: Life as electrons??

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:37 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *John, please evaluate this article, because this report indicates that > life could somehow be electron clouds of some sort, and we all know that > electrons repel each other?

Microsoft Says It Will Build a Quantum Supercomputer Within Ten Years

*"Microsoft promises it'll deliver a Quantum Supercomputer - that will wreak havoc on any standard, non-quantum cryptography (including bitcoin) - in under a decade."* Microsoft Says It Will Build a Quantum Supercomputer Within Ten Years

Re: AI takeoff speed

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 1:49 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> An interesting comparison. But it avoids the obvious lesson. > There was a smooth evolutionary landscape leading to homo sapiens. What > happened was that homo sapiens killed off all the near competitors, * You may be right but you don't

NYTimes.com: New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim A team of researchers verified a key measurement from a study earlier this year that had faced doubts

AI takeoff speed

I found a very interesting article about when the AI intelligence explosion will occur it's at: AI takeoff Speed I have picked out a few quotations

Re: Solar Power Satellites

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 7:21 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> It is practical from an engineering standpoint. I am a follower of the > late, physics professor Gerry O'Neil, and others who have long, proposed > this technology.* > I know,

Re: Lock him up?

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 6:44 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> What about the Wuhan flu, obviously percolated in a Chinese lab? > Accidentally released before it was ready to infect **Hong Kong or India* As I said, if Donald Trump or

Re: Lock him up?

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 5:06 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *J**oey takes bribes, using Hunter as bag man.* > As I said, if Donald Trump or Rupert Murdoch says something then Mr. Spudboy says it. Monkey see monkey do. They know exactly

Betelgeuse going supernova in only a century or two?

There are good historical records of the variations in brightness of Betelgeuse going back about a century caused by pulsations in the star's size. In a recent paper astrophysicists made computer models of Betelgeuse, and the model that best fit the data indicates that Betelgeuse is not in it's

Evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance

Back in 2019 Google claimed they had achieved quantum supremacy because they solved a problem in a few seconds that they said would take a conventional computer 10,000 years to solve, however that claim was later disputed because somebody came up with an algorithm that could solve that problem on

Re: Lock him up?

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 4:46 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> I see a double impeachment coming.* Your trainer, Donald Trump, instructed you to believe that Joe Biden is corrupt, more corrupt even than Trump himself is. And *monkey see

Solar Power Satellites

This article doesn't contain many details and I'm skeptical they've actually made it practical, but I'd love to be proven wrong. However there is one thing you can be absolutely certain of, if Solar Power Satellites really can provide cheap clean safe reusable power then environmentalists will

NYTimes.com: One of the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy Is Under Threat

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. One of the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy Is Under Threat There are dangers to the latest regulatory efforts to force tech companies to monitor all content

Re: Lock him up?

On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:17 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> You Guys open to RFK Jr.? Interesting guy there, "policy-minded' rather > than ideological. * RFK Jr is not "minded" at all, in fact he's nearly as stupid as Donald Trump, and

Re: DeepMind AI Discovers Better Algorithms for Foundational Computing

On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 7:14 PM Tomasz Rola wrote: *> But, but, how are humans going to measure its smartness * By using a stopwatch. An Artificial Intelligence has recently found a machine language sorting program that is smaller and faster than anything any human being has seen before. And a

DeepMind AI Discovers Better Algorithms for Foundational Computing

If this is not an example of an AI helping to develop a smarter AI then I don't know what is. People are gonna be having a very hard time trying to convince themselves this is just a glorified autocomplete program. AlphaDev - DeepMind AI Discovers Better Algorithms for Foundational Computing

Re: Lock him up?

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 5:01 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > If I were Biden, after Trump has been convicted on federal charges I > would commute his sentence, replacing prison time with house arrest at Mar > a Lago, but not any financial or other penalties, such as inability to hold > office. This

NYTimes.com: From Energy Drinks to Extending Life? Supplement Slows Aging in Mice and Monkeys

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. >From Energy Drinks to Extending Life? Supplement Slows Aging in Mice and Monkeys Taurine helped stave off death in laboratory animals, but researchers

Manufacturing in the USA

I recently saw two charts that vividly contrast the outcome of the economic policies of Trump and Biden. [image: image.png] [image: image.png] Trump wanted to increase US manufacturing and thought he could do that by drastically cutting business taxes, increasing tariffs, and instigating a

Lock him up?

Convicted rapist Donald J Trump has now been indicted for a second time for committing felonies. The first time it was by a state court for misusing campaign funds by paying a porn star not to tell the world that Trump's penis looked like "*a little mushroom*" just before the election. And the

ASML's amazing new chip lithography machine

This is a good video about ASML's new chip making machine, and I think I can see why it cost $350 million. A major chip fabricating plant may have a dozen or more of these beauties. ASML'S High-Numerical Aperture Extreme Ultraviolet Semiconductor Lithography Machine

Thorium Nuclear Clocks

Existing atomic clocks are stable to within 1 part in 10^20, if two of them had been synchronized 13.8 billion years ago during the Big Bang today they would disagree with each other by less than 1/100 of a second. But scientists want something better, they want to make a nuclear clock, which

Re: AI and Interest rates

On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 1:51 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> You need land for the solar panel power farms.* As Freeman Dyson pointed out, you don't need land or even the Earth in order to get useful work out of the sun. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

GPT and the human genome

Now a version of GPT is being used to analyze tens of thousands of genomes, including those of human beings, and make predictions about individuals that have them. Illumina AI - ChatGPT for your genome. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at

AI and Interest rates

I have a theory about interest rates and I'd like to know what those who know more about economics than I do think about it. When it comes to economic forecasting the generally accepted beliefs that an economy's population has is all important, and it doesn't even matter if that belief is true.

Re: Mr. GPT, show me your work

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 6:45 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > *> A fascinating interview of Anil Seth on consciousness. JKC will be > especially interested in the last segments starting at 46:15.* > > *https://listen.quantamagazine.org/jow-208-nwslttr* >

Re: A previous subject on environmentalism that echoes JC's view

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) it's bad enough but environmentalists have gone Bananas (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone). John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis 7vo On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:39 PM wrote: >

Mr. GPT, show me your work

In a very recent paper even the authors of GPT state they were surprised that a few simple techniques can dramatically improve the performance of their AI, particularly when you tell it to show you the reasoning it used to come up with the answer that it gave. Some have suggested that in addition

Quantum Computer recommendations

I like to read what Scott Aaronson has to say about Quantum Computers because he is one of the world's greatest experts on the subject and is the first to reject overhyped claims about advances in the field, so I respect his recommendations. It has recently become clear that Aaronson doesn't think

NYTimes.com: The Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter)

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. The Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter) Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human.

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 8:19 PM smitra wrote: > *> chatGPT was able to give the derivation of the moment of inertia of a > sphere, but was unable to derive this in amuch simpler way * First of all, GPT-4 is much smarter than chatGPT, so you should try that. And for reasons that are not

Re: Quantum computers: what are they good for?

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 5:38 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > That was one of the original motivations for QC, protein folding. But > ironically there have now been developed fast classical algorithms that do > protein folding. This illustrates that there is no proof that QC is > necessarily faster

Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back and can spot more colliding black holes than ever

The new and improved LIGO detector has already found something interesting. It's too recent to have been mentioned in the article but yesterday my phone gave me an alert that exactly 17.8 seconds after 10:38PM Eastern time LIGO detected something which they preliminarily gave a 72% probability of

Quantum computers: what are they good for?

Some interesting quotations from this Nature article: *"**The short-term hype is a bit high, but the long-term hype is nowhere near enough.”* * “If anything is going to give something useful in the next five years, it will be chemistry calculations, That’s because of the relatively low resource

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 7:28 AM Jason Resch wrote: *> Have you ever wondered what delineates the mind from its environment?* > No. > * > Why it is that you are not aware of my thoughts but you see me as an > object that only affects your senses, even though we could represent the > whole

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 7:56 AM Jason Resch wrote: *> Can I ask you what you would believe would happen to the conscious of > the individual if you replaced the right hemisphere of the brain with a > black box that interfaced identically with the left hemisphere, but > internal to this black box

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 8:07 AM Jason Resch wrote: >> But you'd still need a computation to find the particular tape recording >> that you need, and the larger your library of recordings the more complex >> the computation you'd need to do would be. And in that very silly >> thought experiment

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