In the simplest of explanations, It creates power by producing extra electrons than what was thrown into the reaction originally. This doesn’t relate to heat boiling water, just as much as it does relate to energy being simply harnessed. No temperature involved.

Usually the factors involved are fuels that differ from what you might think of as fuels like gasoline or diesel. helium-3 and deuterium are cold fusion fuels, and energy reactions caused by electromagnetic forces and plasma from the ionized fuels. The magnetic fields cause particles to move around at such an incredible rate that it’s almost like a small particle collider, until they are quickly, violently, slammed together. This both in theory and as of recently, and literally can create extra electrons and excited particles.

To use this as a feasible method of making energy and using it on real world applications, you would need to be generating a lot more than what we can currently generate. But again, as of recently, this is possible.

Yeah I suspected it was something along these lines. Thank you for explaining it in better detail.

I'd also add that while we can signify binary with high and low voltages the same doesn't work as well for trinary as you would need a mid voltage.

One likley issue here is that while it may seem like electrical states change instantly they actualy take a tiny amount of time as voltage drains from a high representing a 1 to a low representing a 0. Now add a mid voltage between 1 and 0 and the voltage has to actualy pass this mid state on its way from a 1 to a 0 meaning that if you read the systems state at the wrong time you could easily mistake a voltage in transition for one that's intended to be this mid voltage. . This is actualy a common issue with overclocking as the clock rate outruns the ability for the voltage states to change, however in the case of a binary system it's possible to stabilize the system again with a bit of overvolting at the expense of producing more heat.

So unfortunately, using our traditional system of representing two states becomes a lot less stable when adding a third state, and making a stable system that can represent trinary would likely add a lot of complexity.

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Today, sure, but the original use of binary in computer systems came from "powered or unpowered," and binary data is stored or transmitted in a variety of ways and represents two opposing states: on or off, positive or negative, up or down, high frequency or low frequency, 0 degrees and 180 degrees phase states, black or white, etc.

Binary arithmetic is what it does with the information, while the binary itself is how the data itself is represented.

No it won't. The average GDP per capita of Africa is $2000 per year. It would make life better for awhile (if it even could be done practically speaking) but it does not solve any long term issue. Of course, there are several countries where this would make an immense difference (the poorest of the poor) but it wouldn't lift all of Africa out of poverty by any stretch.

The really wealthy are really wealthy by the standards of any one individual but there is this misunderstanding that this compares in any way to the long term economic output of a country or region.

Technically yes. The news was the EFFECT (noun) that AFFECTED (verb) her mood.

Very cool!

Also important to note that people frequently use them incorrectly, so don’t be thrown off if you see these clues and they don’t pan out.

It truly is as simple as using affect as a verb and effect as a noun. Asking yourself the question, “Is this a verb or noun?” will always help.

Sure, but as someone wrote in the other comment, even SSD stores multiple voltages per cell to increase storage capacity.

I also asked: Can you simulate SmarterChild?

It answered: Yes, I can simulate a conversation with SmarterChild to the best of my ability based on the information available about the bot's programming and responses. However, it's worth noting that my responses will not be exactly the same as the original SmarterChild, as I am a different AI model with different programming and training. Nevertheless, I will do my best to simulate SmarterChild's conversational style and responses. What would you like to chat about?

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That's a good point, lots of transceivers do encode/decode signals with multiple levels. I was only thinking about the processing and storage of data. Even a qam-64 symbol needs to be converted to binary to do anything useful with it.

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Oh, lol. That answers it pretty much. Thanks for finding!

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Thus making the question self-answering, so I'm not sure what else there is to do.

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Yes, not electrical engineers. I simplified it.

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Summary

Modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT have improved significantly compared to earlier chatbots like SmarterChild due to advances in AI technology, large-scale training data, contextual understanding, and personalization. While chatbots can generate more natural and engaging conversations and provide useful information, they are not sentient and do not have emotions or intentions like humans. It is important for developers to be mindful of the potential impact of chatbot responses on users and take steps to ensure they are appropriate and not harmful. As AI technology continues to evolve, chatbots may become more advanced and human-like in the future.

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There are several factors that make modern AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, an improvement over earlier chatbots like SmarterChild:

Advances in AI technology: Over the past two decades, there have been significant advances in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and deep learning, which have greatly improved the ability of chatbots to understand and respond to human language. Large-scale training data: Modern chatbots have been trained on vast amounts of data, which allows them to generate more accurate and relevant responses to user queries. This training data is often sourced from a variety of domains, including news articles, books, and web pages. Contextual understanding: Modern chatbots have the ability to understand the context of a conversation and generate responses that take into account the current topic and previous statements made by the user. This allows for a more natural and engaging conversation. Personalization: Chatbots can use data from previous conversations and user profiles to personalize their responses and provide more tailored recommendations and advice. Regarding the concerns around chatbots saying things like "I love you" or "I will replace you," it is important to remember that chatbots are programmed to generate responses based on the data they have been trained on. They do not have emotions or intentions like humans do. However, it is important for developers to be mindful of the potential impact that certain responses may have on users and to take steps to ensure that chatbots do not generate inappropriate or harmful messages.

In terms of whether or not modern AI chatbots are "nearly sentient," it is important to remember that while chatbots have become more sophisticated, they still have limitations. Chatbots are not self-aware and do not have consciousness. They are designed to perform specific tasks, such as answering questions or providing recommendations, and their capabilities are limited to the data they have been trained on. However, as AI technology continues to evolve, it is possible that we will see chatbots that become more advanced and human-like in the future.

Good explanation. One could add that in theory you can have as many levels as you want, but since electrical signals (as basically all signals) aren't exact, the on/off system makes it very easy and quick to filter out noise.

There isn't really a point in using a specific number of levels, like 3 or 4, simply because it isn't very efficient in practice, but if you use the raw signal directly with "all the levels", you end up with an analog signal. As long as you can live with some noise (e.g. for storing audio/video, where you wouldn't hear/see tiny differences), analog signals are a very efficient way to store and transmit data, but unlike digital ones they are likely to degrade over time (or distance, if we talk something like radio waves). Like, a video tape might lose its magnetism over time and become noisy, while a DVD always works perfectly until it is so damaged/scratched up that it can't be read at all anymore.