Research shows up to 80 percent of jobs are exposed to ChatGPT automation risks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI will have a profound impact on jobs, it will fully automate some, partially automate others, but also augment many 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,...
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...
This optical brain like computer chip analyses almost 2 billion images per second
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future machine vision will capture even more videos and images than it does today, and synthetic content will create even more, and we need computer chips that can process this insane volume of graphical data. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
This AI just built a computer within itself that runs another AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all too often think of things in one dimension terms, but what happens when computers can run in computers, and AI’s can run in AI’s, or both can run in each other? And evolve themselves … ? Love the Exponential Future? Join our...
NASA experiments with self-healing robots made from ice for deep space exploration
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are no spare parts in the deep universe to repair broken robots with, but there’s plenty of ice … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. “It was right around dawn on...
Scientists created a mini Aladdins Flying Carpet using nothing but light
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Human ingenuity knows no bounds and the world’s mini “flying carpet” is proof of that. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the past year we’ve seen dramatic improvements in the development...
Blind patient regains sight after world’s first in vivo gene editing trial goes without a hitch
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Normally doctors correct faulty genes outside of the body, this is the first time ever it’s been done inside the body. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A while ago I...
OpenAI’s GPT-3 moves us closer to realising computers that write their own code
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF GPT-3 is a revolutionary new natural language model that has many uses, including writing code. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When OpenAI first published a paper on their new language...
New 3D printing technique helps researchers create better shape shifting materials
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are numerous occasions where a shape shifting material, or a reactive material, would be useful and now we have an easier way to create them. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Even without a brain or a...
Researchers create a bone like metal foam that heals at room temperature
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When metal breaks it takes a huge amount of energy and heat to fix it, but this new breakthrough fixes that problem. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. For 6,000 years, humans have been making things from metal...
Suspicious nuclear power plants can now be monitored remotely using WATCHMAN
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Up until now it’s only been possible to assess the status of a sovereign states nuclear power program by physically inspecting the site, which is sometimes difficult, but now it can be done remotely from thousands of miles away. A consortium led by UK...
Placenta-on-a-Chip breakthrough could prevent birth defects and save lives
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Studying the effects that different drugs that pregnant women take during their pregnancies on their unborn children is complex, difficult and expensive, this technology could help save lives and reduce the likelihood of unwelcome birth defects. Recently we’ve seen the creation of Brain in...
New brain research discovers people are great at predicting what’ll go viral
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why does anything go viral? Ask a million people and a million people will have a million different answers, but according to new research the real answer’s inside your head. I have to admit that as I read through the science behind this news,...
New breakthrough will make scars and wrinkles a thing of the past
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many people have scar tissue, and everyone, one day gets wrinkles, now both of those human frailties could be a thing of the past There are a few of reasons that scar tissue looks different than regular skin – it lacks hair follicles and it...
World first as AI “Judge” succesfully predicts the outcomes of 79% of cases in the European Court
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence has a problem with nuance but that didn’t stop it from correctly predicting the outcome of most of the cases. An artificial intelligence system has correctly predicted the outcomes of hundreds of cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights, researchers...
