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...
Jetopera’s bladeless eVTOL aircraft targets 0.8 Mach
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bladeless VTOL aircraft make a lot more sense than prop based ones, but getting the technology right is very hard. 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 new self-healing semiconductor can withstand the radiation of a hundred Suns
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Radiation destroys electronics, but what if they could heal themselves to run forever? 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. A few years ago I talked...
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...
Researchers teleported energy and created negative energy for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to literally teleport energy could eliminate the need for energy infrastructure … in about the year 2300! 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....
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...
The latest USAF report says force fields are almost here but they’re not quite sci-fi
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Force fields are the stuff of sci-fi, and while the US Military thinks they’re more drone like I and others have other ideas … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
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...
Researchers say you’ll soon be able to run holograms from your smartphone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why live with 2D imagery when you can live life in glorious 3D!? 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. In 1943, Thomas Watson, the president...
Major fusion breakthrough sees test reactor produce enough net energy to boil a kettle
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The first fusion plants might generate up to 500Mw of energy, but in a world rapidly switching to renewables is this now too little too late? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
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...
Start moving to quantum safe cryptography now White House tells feds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if there was a powerful enough computer platform emerging which could crack 70% of global encryption in minutes and reveal your secrets? Worried? Then read on … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
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...
Researchers created self-assembling proteins that can the memories of cells
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine you knew exactly what was happening in all the cells in your body in real time so you could detect changes, thwart cancer, or just to be nosey … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Human mini brains in mice respond to visual stimulii in trial first
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When you grow human brains outside of the human body they do odd things, such as become sentient, outsmarting machine AI’s, and now seeing? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
World’s first Pig-Human heart transplant patient died from a Porcine virus
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Xenotransplantation relies on organs from other species that can be transplanted into humans to be genetically engineered to be virus free, this one wasn’t and it’s set the field back years. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
New breakthrough drug reverses hearing loss and consigns hearing aids to the bin
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hearing loss affects everyone at one stage or another, but now it’s increasingly looking like hearing loss can be reversed thanks to a new regenerative medicine drug from MIT. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...