Swarms of millions of molecular sized robots get busy building nanoscale stuff
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Molecular sized robots already exist, in nature and in the lab, but now the ones in the labs are getting smart and organised and that could change many things … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
In a world first an AI lawyer will defend a human in a real court room
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is good at some things, and cheap, so what happens when AI goes to bat in your corner in a court room? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Researchers used AI to discover a powerful new Cancer drug in 30 days
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As humans and AI continue to crack the secrets of biology one day we could see AI create instant cures and treatments for diseases. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
ChatGPT listed as an author on research papers and scientists disapprove
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the text writing bot ChatGPT takes on the world more people are getting unhappy about it and now it’s the scientists turn. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
ChatGPT just passed a Wharton business school exam
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While it’s feared that ChatGPT could make a great cheating tool most exams are taken in controlled environments, so this test shows its grasp of the subject matter. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Google steps up it’s AI text to image game to fight off the competition
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Google has a fantastic AI bench, but it’s being outgunned and out marketed by you know who and that’s freaking them out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Microsoft’s VALL-E AI can clone your voice in just three seconds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine all the times you use your voice, now imagine what would happen if people could clone it – for good and bad … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Meta’s AI became an expert in Diplomacy and human gamers weren’t the wiser
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Slowly but surely AI is mastering increasingly complex simulations and games, boosting its potential. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has mastered...
ChatGPT is almost acing the hardest USMLE medical exams in the USA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As teachers increasingly worry about how students will use new powerful AI’s to cheat they’re finding out their concerns are justified, and worse. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Thanks to AI your WiFi can now sense when you’re struggling to breathe
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Often some of the best breakthroughs, but also the oddest in terms of “privacy invasion” come from odd sources … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
AI is coming to help Hollywood pick future blockbusters
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans are pretty rubbish at picking future big blockbusters, and as it turns out AI is twice as good … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
This singer Deepfaked then open sourced her own voice so you can sing like her
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI can create music, create the voices to sing the music for you, and even let singers open source their voices … it’s an odd world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
ChatGPT aces UK GCSE History exams to astound teachers and create dilemmas
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting to the point where it’s becoming the perfect educational aid… or cheating tool, and teachers aren’t prepared at all for what’s coming (today). Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
McDonalds opens it’s first mostly automated restaurant in Texas
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day all McDonalds could be fully automated … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One day your local McDonalds could be a so called...
The first aqueous ionic transistor for liquid computers ran a liquid neural network
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think of computing as being “silicon based” and “solid” but the future of computing breaks all these rules and more. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
DeepMind’s newest AI thrashes human gamers at Stratego
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all make decisions even in the absence of data and in order for AI to “take on the real world” it has to aswell but so far that’s been tricky. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
In a world first scientists used AI and a quantum computer to simulate an actual wormhole
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Who wouldn’t love to jump between blackholes to travel between dimensions and across time? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Wormholes have been a science...
Companies are turning to synthetic data to fill in gaps in their AI models
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When you don’t have real data to work with why not create some? That’s synthetic data … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Deep learning...
Researchers use AI to create cancer hunting human super soldier cells
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Essentially the human body is an amazing machine, and as scientists understand it better they’re managing to code it to do new things. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Researchers replace blood tests with a 5 second pulse of light to detect Malaria
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By being able to replace blood tests with a pulse of light from a smartphone connected device researchers have just made a major breakthrough. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
