Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+. He helped popularize the term ‘artificial general intelligence’. Goertzel was the Chief Sci … | Continue reading
SpaceX has moved the Super Heavy Starship and NASA has reserved observation planes for April 10 and 11. | Continue reading
Cerebras open sources seven GPT-3 models from 111 million to 13 billion parameters. Trained using the Chinchilla formula, these models set new benchmarks for accuracy and compute efficiency. Cerebras makes wafer scale computer chips. Cerebras-GPT has faster training times, lower … | Continue reading
It is not common but there are pictures and video of Russian and Ukrainian military mixing in WW1 and WW2 era guns and helmets. Some of the Russian (or Russian allied) soldiers are being issued WW2 era helmets and AK-74 assault rifles and even some bolt action guns like the M1891 … | Continue reading
First Republic Bank (FRC.N) and Western Alliance (WAL.N) said on Friday their liquidity and deposits remained strong, aiming to calm investors worried of a spill-over of risks from troubled startup focused-bank SVB Financial Group. First Republic is about the same size bank as Si … | Continue reading
Alphabet’s Waymo , self-driving company, has laid off 8% (209 employees) of its workforce. The layoffs — mostly engineering roles — are part of a broader organizational restructure. | Continue reading
Rob Mauer of Tesla Daily is at the Tesla Investor Day and has a video of a new Tesla Cybertruck on display. It is still labeled as a Pre-production Beta. He has a walk around new Tesla Cybertruck Prototype at Investor Day, with first looks at updated design. ➤ Hardware 4 ➤ Steeri … | Continue reading
The James Webb Telescope found earlier giant galaxies or giant blackholes from only 500 million years after the big bang. Michio Kaku believes they could be giant early blackholes that were left over from the big bang. | Continue reading
SpaceX Starlink V2 minis arelarger and more powerful than the Version 1.5 Starlink. SpaceX Starlink V2 mini will have more powerful phased array antennas and the use of E-band for backhaul—which will allow Starlink to provide ~4x more capacity per satellite than earlier iteration … | Continue reading
Generative AI is a big step forward. It may not be Artificial General Intelligence. But it will take fundamental capabilities like search and chat to the next level(s). There will be Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI competing at the base level. There will be more companies maki … | Continue reading
Starlink has achieved positive cash flow and is on track to turn a profit in 2023 and this starts a countdown to a Starlink IPO. Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet service, recorded its first quarter of positive cash flow in 2022 and is on track to turn a profit this yea … | Continue reading
Microsoft is bringing into the browser. The AI will summarize any pdf document (including scientific papers) and integrate data from current web and use it to create content. Merging in the AI has created the largest jump in search relevance in two decades. AI will supercharge se … | Continue reading
Tesla has released its fourth quarter earnings. They had 2.46 GWh in Q4 for energy deployment with about 9% margins. They had 25.9% auto gross margin in Q4. They have 400,000 users of the FSD (full self-driving) beta. The compact car / robotaxi platform will be shown at the March … | Continue reading
CALB aims for ‘aggressive’ expansion in its goal to be among the world’s top three EV battery makers. CALB is targeting a total capacity of 500 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2025, more than 42 times the 11.9 GWh it produced in 2021 and about 30 GWH in 2022. The Jiangsu-based company ra … | Continue reading
The global 2022 were 7.7 million BEVs and with plug in hybrid (PHEV and BEV) over 10 million in 2022. The global share is 12.5 % for BEV. About 200k EV units were lost in China due to massive COVID outbreaks in December. In 2023, the number of Global BEV will easily surpass 10 mi … | Continue reading
SpaceX is targeting over 100 orbital launches in 2023 after launching 61 times in 2022. They just had their fifth successful launch which is more than every other country or region in the world in 2022, except China and Russia. SpaceX is the main launch company for the USA and th … | Continue reading
The UN estimates that the world passed 8 billion people in December 2022 and April 2023 India will pass China’s population. There are errors in population estimates of at least 1%. China has been the world’s most populous country for hundreds of years. In 1750, China had about 22 … | Continue reading
How do we extract energy from space around a spacecraft? If there are differences in the speed of the solar wind or differences in flows of particles around a spacecraft or where a spacecraft is passing then highly efficient extraction of power can enable great capabilities. On e … | Continue reading
There has been very little mass media coverage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft failing while at the International Space Station. The Soyuz had a severe coolant leak. It had already delivered to Russian and an American astronaut. Imagine if this was a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked … | Continue reading
There are many common materials in batteries like iron, those materials are sourced locally from where the batteries are made. Most of the world’s batteries are made in China. Therefore, most of the materials would be sourced in China. China also has quite a bit of lithium which … | Continue reading
SpaceX had 1 million Starlink dishes manufactured in September, 2022 but has just announced 1 million active Starlink customers about 2.5 months later. The primary drivers of SpaceX revenue is the rate that they can produce Starlink dishes and then sell the dishes and services to … | Continue reading
Many commenters who have issues with the Tesla Semi complain that it is not suitable for Long Haul trucking. How big a market is short haul trucking? What are the problems and issues to address long haul trucking. The following are currently Tesla Semi problems: * current 500 mil … | Continue reading
Avalanche is a VC-backed, fusion energy start-up based in Seattle, WA. They are designing, testing and building micro-fusion reactors that you can hold in | Continue reading
I did some research on Tesla safety using non-Tesla data to address the issue from the AI experts. Some AI experts criticized FSD. I used US, UK government | Continue reading
Nuclear Fusion startup, Helion Energy, received $500 million in funding and has $1.7 billion in commitments. | Continue reading
Purdue University engineers have created white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their ambient surroundings – almost like a refrigerator does, but without consuming | Continue reading