In the hoopla around current #AI, many fans are brushing uncomfortable truths under the carpet - it frequently outputs nonsense, & has no means of using reasoning or logic to establish when. This will be harder and harder to ignore as AI is hooked up to more real world systems.

CATL's existing Qilin battery - energy density of 255 Wh/kg is the world's most powerful. CATL says this is ready for mass production - don't mention costs. If #EVs double their range on one charge, what consumer resistance to them remains will melt away. rb.gy/oshmk

It seems very odd to be pitching something, and simultaneously saying it doesn't work. Especially when your product relies on solving one of the longest standing problems in #AI (alignment) #Palantir

Eerie how comfortably it lies. The bit about studying in Florence was recounted with shameless conviction. Can't help thinking the people easily suckered by conspiracy theories & misinfo, will soon be easy marks for those who want to manipulate them with tech like this. #AI

Not only is #AI development accelerating, the rate it is surpassing human-level performance on each new benchmark measurement model is accelerating too. I'd love to see #AGI plotted on this graph (but appreciate the difficulties of doing that). contextual.ai/plotting-progr…

I would find all these suppositions about #AI consciousness 'coming soon' - if the people making them understood how human consciousness arises (no one does). Otherwise, the stronger their claims about #AI consciousness, the less I have confidence in them.

Don't know if you're a reddit person James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ - but if you want to do an AMA for the book on r/futurology, DM me and i'll set it up

Battery prices are forecast to fall 40% by 2025, and by 13% every year until 2030. Will anyone be left buying new internal combustion engine cars by the end of the decade? #EVs #ElectricVehicles #Oil #renewables goldmansachs.com/intelligence/p…

The founder of Chipotle is opening a new endeavor called Kernel, a chain of vegetarian fast-food restaurants that will be operated mostly by robots. #ai #robotic #robots ny.eater.com/2023/11/14/239…

If a fully synthetic yeast cell is just one year away - how soon will there be a fully synthetic multicellular organism? Evolution has created millions of varieties of those over billions of years, will #AI be even more capable? science.org/content/articl…?

An American Complexity Scientist says #AI upcoming detrimental effects on the elite and educated, will drive reactions far more than previous automation has had on the less educated and working class. #ai #robotics peterturchin.com/when-a-i-comes…

One of DeepMind's founders, Mustafa Suleyman, says his new AI called Inflection-2 is the world's second most powerful, and just behind OpenAI's GPT-4. OpenAI really worth $80 bn? Even free open-source #AI snapping at its heels too. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

Grid storage batteries have become so cheap investors are beginning to abandon financing new gas-powered plants; In the first half of the year, 68 gas-power plant projects were put on hold or canceled globally. #Renewables reuters.com/business/energ…?

Research shows people rate AI-generated content as better than human content, until they find out it's AI-generated. Prediction? The ppl most exposed to AI job replacement anxiety drive this the most. #AI cambridge.org/core/journals/…?

Some ppl v optimistic about #AGI being around the corner. No indication the current approach to #AI will gives independent reasoning abilities. Despite decades of attempts, no one has outlined how AI might acquire reasoning ability. Here's more evidence. arxiv.org/abs/2311.12983

A Tory rebel source tells me: Letters are going in calling for a no confidence vote in Rishi Sunak after reports of an imminent general election announcement

hi David Wood - love the 3-strand #technoprogressive stuff. Any chance you'd do an AMA on r/futurology about it? It would counter doomerist/collapse narratives currently resurging there & we'd pin to the top of the sub-reddit for 1 month for visibility.

Awful scenes, those poor people. I have a terrible feeling the final death toll will be many hundreds. #Asheville, 100K population looks destroyed. Other towns wiped out. Every year #climatechange will only make these events more frequent and worse. #HurricaneHelene

This engine seems to work like an ion thruster but uses metal as fuel instead of xenon gas, which is easier to refine and can be found in asteroids all over the Solar System. #space earth.com/news/spaceship…

I wonder what robotaxi numbers will look like in say 2026, 2028, or 2030? Looked at worldwide, I would guess 10,000s in 2026, the million barrier may be passed in 2028, and there may be 10s of millions by 2030. thedeepdive.ca/amazon-owned-z… #ubi #ai #Robotaxi #Robotics