Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Earlier this month Tesla ran an amazing demonstration of its Optimus robots. They danced, they played games, they poured drinks. Amazing stuff. This is a Tesla tannoy that they are turning to AI/Robotics as their next big thing, and so every October they have run an AI Day which this year was called “We Robot”. … Read more
You might perhaps have seen the news that a Google Engineer has become convinced that an artificial intelligence that they created has become ‘sentient’ (self-aware). Is this true, has this AI called LaMDA really become self-aware? Short answer – no. Slightly longer answer – Seriously, just no. So what is going on here, what has … Read more
Many scientific papers sit behind paywalls. What you must never ever do is go to Sci-Hub and download them completely free to bypass that.
There are plans to get human boots on Mars. What are some of the challenges to achieving this, will we be able to overcome these & get there?
In 1965 Moore’s Law predicted that Integrated circuity capacity would double every two years. How much longer can this continue for?
We appear to be close to a dramatic battery breakthrough. If it all pans out then Graphene aluminium ion batteries could change everything