This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 23)

AI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality
James O’Donnell | MIT Know-how Assessment
“Think about sitting down with an AI mannequin for a spoken two-hour interview. A pleasant voice guides you thru a dialog that ranges out of your childhood, your formative recollections, and your profession to your ideas on immigration coverage. Not lengthy after, a digital reproduction of you is ready to embody your values and preferences with beautiful accuracy. That’s now attainable, based on a brand new paper from a workforce together with researchers from Stanford and Google DeepMind, which has been printed on arXiv and has not but been peer-reviewed.”

This AI Taught Itself to Do Surgery by Watching Videos—and It’s Ready to Operate on Humans
Jesus Diaz | Quick Firm
“For the primary time in historical past, Kim and his colleagues managed to show a man-made intelligence to make use of a robotic surgical procedure machine to carry out exact surgical duties by making it watch hundreds of hours of precise procedures taking place in actual surgical theaters. …In response to their lately printed paper, the researchers say the AI managed to realize a efficiency stage akin to human surgeons with out prior express programming.”

New Fastest Supercomputer Will Simulate Nuke Testing
Dina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum
“El Capitan was introduced yesterday on the SC Convention for supercomputing in Atlanta, Georgia, and it debuted at #1 within the latest Top500 checklist, a twice-yearly rating of the world’s highest performing supercomputers. …[The supercomputer], housed at Lawrence Livermore Nationwide Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., can carry out over 2700 quadrillion operations per second at its peak. The earlier file holder, Frontier, might do exactly over 2000 quadrillion peak operations per second.”

A Chinese Lab Has Released a ‘Reasoning’ AI Model to Rival OpenAI’s o1
Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch
“On Wednesday, DeepSeek, an AI analysis firm funded by quantitative merchants, launched a preview of DeepSeek-R1, which the agency claims is a reasoning mannequin aggressive with o1. …Just like o1, DeepSeek-R1 causes by duties, planning forward, and performing a collection of actions that assist the mannequin arrive at a solution. This will take some time. Like o1, relying on the complexity of the query, DeepSeek-R1 would possibly ‘suppose’ for tens of seconds earlier than answering.”

AI Could Cause ‘Social Ruptures’ Between People Who Disagree on Its Sentience
Robert Sales space | The Guardian
“Important ‘social ruptures’ between individuals who suppose synthetic intelligence techniques are acutely aware and those that insist the know-how feels nothing are looming, a number one thinker has mentioned. …Final week, a transatlantic group of lecturers predicted that the daybreak of consciousness in AI techniques is probably going by 2035 and one has now mentioned this might lead to ‘subcultures that view one another as making large errors’ about whether or not laptop applications are owed related welfare rights as people or animals.”

Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future
Wired Employees | Wired
“To offer probably the most helpful dispatch from the long run…we realized we wanted a strategy to make self-driving automobiles really feel unusual once more. A strategy to scare up the much less superficial classes of our metropolis’s years with Waymo. …Our concept: We’ll pile just a few of us into an old style, human-piloted employed automotive, then comply with a single Waymo robotaxi wherever it goes for a complete workday. We’ll research its actions, its relationship to life on the streets, its complete self-driving gestalt. We’ll interview as a lot of its passengers as will communicate to us, and observe it by the eyes of the type of human driver it’s designed to switch.”

Microsoft and Atom Computing Combine for Quantum Error Correction Demo
John Timmer | Ars Technica
“The 2 corporations [released] a draft manuscript describing their work on error correction [this week]. The paper serves as each a superb abstract of the place issues presently stand on the planet of error correction, in addition to a superb have a look at among the distinct options of computation utilizing impartial atoms.”

OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser
Erin Woo, Sahil Patel, and Amir Efrati | The Data
“OpenAI is getting ready to launch a frontal assault on Google. The ChatGPT proprietor lately thought of creating an internet browser that it might mix with its chatbot, and it has individually mentioned or struck offers to energy search options for journey, meals, actual property and retail web sites, based on individuals who have seen prototypes or designs of the merchandise.”

INTERNET

Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up
Steven Levy | Wired
“In little greater than per week, its numbers soared from 14 million to twenty million and had been rising at a tempo of 1,000,000 a day. …After I spoke this week to Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, she was gratified by the brand new customers. ‘It’s been a wild week,’ she says. However she famous that this spike was one in every of a number of over the previous few months. Bluesky, she says, is in it for the lengthy haul. The thought is to not recreate basic Twitter, she says, however to reshape social media on the precept of openness and person management.”

All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA.
Jonathan Lambert | Quanta
“The [new analysis] sketched a surprisingly advanced image(opens a brand new tab) of the cell. LUCA lived off hydrogen fuel and carbon dioxide, boasted a genome as massive as that of some trendy micro organism, and already had a rudimentary immune system, based on the research. Its genomic complexity, the authors argue, means that LUCA was one in every of many lineages — the remaining now extinct—residing about 4.2 billion years in the past, a turbulent time comparatively early in Earth’s historical past and lengthy thought too harsh for all times to flourish.”

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