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Google DeepMinds New AI Systems Can Now Solve Complex Math Problems Rhiannon Williams | MIT Technology Review AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, theyre nowhere near as good at solving math problems, which tend to involve logical reasoningsomething thats beyond the capabilities of most current AI systems. But that may finally be changing. Google DeepMind says it has trained two specialized AI systems to solve complex math problems involving advanced reasoning.

This Startup Is Building the Countrys Most Powerful Quantum Computer on Chicagos South Side Adam Bluestein | Fast Company PsiQuantums approach is radically different from that of its competitors. Its relying on cutting-edge silicon photonics to manipulate single particles of light for computation. And instead of taking an incremental approach to building a supercomputer, its focused entirely on coming out of the gate with a full-blown, fault tolerant system that will be far larger than any quantum computer built to date. The company has vowed to have its first system operational by late 2027, years earlier than other projections.

The Race for the Next Ozempic Emily Mullin | Wired These drugs are now wildly popular, in shortage as a result, and hugely profitable for the companies making them. Their success has sparked a frenzy among pharmaceutical companies looking for the next blockbuster weight-loss drug. Researchers are now racing to develop new anti-obesity medications that are more effective, more convenient, or produce fewer side effects than the ones currently on the market.

Watch a Robot Peel a Squash With Human-Like Dexterity Alex Wilkins | New Scientist Pulkit Agrawal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have developed a robotic system that can rotate different types of fruit and vegetable using its fingers on one hand, while the other arm is made to peel.

Heres What Happens When You Give People Free Money Paresh Dave | Wired The initial results from what OpenResearch, an Altman-funded research lab, describes as the most comprehensive study on unconditional cash show that while the grants had their benefits and werent spent on items such as drugs and alcohol, they were hardly a panacea for treating some of the biggest concerns about income inequality and the prospect of AI and other automation technologies taking jobs.

Meta Releases the Biggest and Best Open-Source AI Model Yet Alex Heath | The Verge Meta is releasing Llama 3.1, the largest-ever open-source AI model, which the company claims outperforms GPT-4o and Anthropics Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks. CEO Mark Zuckerberg now predicts that Meta AI will be the most widely used assistant by the end of this year, surpassing ChatGPT.

US Solar Production Soars by 25 Percent in Just One Year John Timmer | Ars Technica In terms of utility-scale production, the first five months of 2024 saw it rise by 29 percent compared to the same period in the year prior. Small-scale solar was only up by 18 percent, with the combined number rising by 25.3 percent. Its worth noting that this data all comes from before some of the most productive months of the year for solar power; overall, the EIA is predicting that solar production couldrise by as much as 42 percent in 2024.

SearchGPT Is OpenAIs Direct Assault on Google Reece Rogers and Will Knight | Wired After months of speculation about its search ambitions, OpenAIhas revealedSearchGPT, a prototype search engine that could eventually help the company tear off a slice of Googles lucrative business. OpenAI said that the new tool would help users find what they are looking for more quickly and easily by using generative AI to gather links and answer user queries in a conversational tone.

Wafer-Thin Light Sail Could Help Us Reach Another Star Sooner Alex Wilkins | New Scientist Alight sail designed using artificial intelligence is about 1000 times thinner than a human hair and weighs as much as a grain of sandand it could help us create a spacecraft capable of reaching another star sooner than we thought.

AI Cant Make Music Matteo Wong | The Atlantic While AI models are starting to replicate musical patterns, it is the breaking of rules that tends to produce era-defining songs. Algorithms are great at fulfilling expectations but not good at subverting them, but thats what often makes the best music, Eric Drott, a music-theory professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told me.

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