Weird Claim That Zuckerberg Does Not Believe in AI Compute Scaling

Ate-a-Pi has a weird claim that Mark Zuckerberg does not believe in AI compute scaling delivering better performance. There is also a claim about energy constraints for data centers and AI chips maximizing on performance per watt. Zuckerberg says that the exponential curves are still scaling. He says no ones how long that scaling continues. …

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MUSE Nuclear Fusion Stellerator Made with Off the Shelf Parts and 3D Printed Shell

The Princeton Physics Lab has built a Stellarator nuclear fusion reactor prototype using permanent magnets. This is a scientific first that enables mostly off the shelf magnet for simple and low cost experiments to test new concepts for future fusion power plants. It does not generate net energy, but it has some nuclear processes and …

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XAI Grok 1.5 Vision Leverages Tesla FSD to Understand the Real World

Grok-1.5V is competitive with existing frontier multimodal models in a number of domains, ranging from multi-disciplinary reasoning to understanding documents, science diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. Grok has capabilities in understanding our physical world. Grok outperforms its peers in our new RealWorldQA benchmark that measures real-world spatial understanding. For all datasets below, they evaluate Grok …

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Elon Posts Tesla FSD 12.4 is Near While FSD 12.3.5 Starts Release

Elon Musk reasserts that Tesla FSD 12.4 will be another big improvement and will be released soon. Tesla FSD 12.4 will have the driving data learned from another billion miles of driving from the one month free trial for 2 million users. The new driving data will be from many new drivers who were inexperienced …

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Exodus Propulsion Technologies Claims Huge Space Propulsion Breakthrough

Dr. Charles Buhler and Exodus Technologies claims that systems with electrostatic pressure differences or electrostatic divergent fields gives systems with a center of mass with non-zero force component (aka generate movement). Buhler is NASA’s subject matter expert on electrostatics. They want to move to demo the system in orbit. These kinds of claims are controversial …

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What Happens at the August 8, 2024 Tesla Robotaxi Event and how does robotaxi rollout?

Tesla has made rapid progress with the full self driving system after they completed version 12 of the AI. They have replaced the coded rules for a complete system of neural networks to control perception, navigation and planning. Tesla has announced that they will unveil the robotaxi on August 8, 2024. However, it is now …

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Israeli Drones Have Hit Iran

Israeli drones have hit western Iran. Explosions were heard in the city of Isfahan prompting commercial flights to divert from their routes. Explosions were heard near the Iranian city of Isfahan early Friday as Israel reportedly launched a heavily anticipated reprisal strike for an Iranian attack on Israel days earlier, defying international pressure to stand …

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