BENGALURU, India (AP) — The heavy rains that resulted in landslides killing hundreds in southern India last month were made worse by human-caused climate change, a rapid analysis by climate scientists found Tuesday. The study by the World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists who use established climate models to quickly determine whether human-caused climate…
ChatGPT and other large language models, comprising billions of parameters and pre-trained on extensive web-scale corpora, have been claimed to acquire certain capabilities without having been specifically trained on them. The post Large Language Models Pose No Existential Threat to Humanity, Scientists Say appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…
NASA’s Human Lander Challenge, or HuLC, is now open and accepting submissions for its second year. As NASA aims to return astronauts to the Moon through its Artemis campaign in preparation for future missions to Mars, the agency is seeking ideas from college and university students for evolved supercold…
Japanese startup Sakana AI claims they have built the world’s first AI Scientist. One of the grand challenges of artificial general intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting scientific research and discovering new knowledge. This new work is a major advance toward that goal. While frontier models have already been used as aids to human…
The Figure 02 humanoid bot is an improved humanoid bot. Speech-to-speech reasoning: Figure 02 can have full conversations with humans. Onboard mics + speakers + custom AI models (partnered with OpenAI) = a robot you can actually talk to. The human-scale hands are equipped with 16 degrees of freedom and human-equivalent strength which enables a…
The Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) is only found in one habitat in Australia, which is under threat from human activity. Now the species has been saved from extinction by hatching in captivity…
We know that modern humans took one of two routes to first reach Australia, and now an ancient chunk of plant resin has tipped the evidence towards the northern option…