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FuturologyBot t1_ir9zh47 wrote
Reply to Moneyless economy simulator by shanoshamanizum
The following submission statement was provided by /u/shanoshamanizum:
Cyber Stasis is an economic simulator in the form of a free fictional game. The interface is a futuristic dashboard which coordinates global real-time demand and supply. The model is based on gift economy and tests the hypothesis of having a market system without any type of exchange be it barters or money. The market system provides a feedback loop between production and consumption and is oriented towards efficiency of distribution. Everything that we measure with money can be measured by a ratio between supply and demand. There is no private property and a concept of wealth. Everyone is connected anonymously to prevent forming of alliances and cartels. The goal of the system is to make sure that all needs are met to the best extent possible. There is a personal reputation index which measures your contributions to society but it does not give any privileges. The goal of the game is to become the most useful member of society.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir9pcey wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/spiritoffff:
Google announced the development of Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI mode capable of producing 1280×768 videos at 24 frames per second from a written prompt. Currently, it's in a research phase, but its appearance five months after Google Imagen points to the rapid development of video synthesis models.
Only six months after the launch of OpenAI's DALLE-2 text-to-image generator, progress in the field of AI diffusion models has been heating up rapidly. Google's Imagen Video announcement comes less than a week after Meta unveiled its text-to-video AI tool, Make-A-Video.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir9fksn wrote
Reply to How Florida's increased minimum wage could impact the future workforce by WallStreetDoesntBet
The following submission statement was provided by /u/WallStreetDoesntBet:
2020 Florida Amendment 2 was an amendment to the Constitution of Florida that passed on November 3, 2020, via a statewide referendum concurrent with other elections. The amendment sets to increase the state's hourly minimum wage to $15 by 2026.
Effective September 30th, 2021, Florida’s will raise minimum wage to $10.00 per hour. Each September 30th thereafter, minimum wage shall increase by $1.00 per hour until the minimum wage reaches $15.00 per hour on September 30th, 2026. From that point forward, future minimum wage increases shall revert to being adjusted annually for inflation starting September 30th, 2027.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir7uz0k wrote
Reply to UNSW researchers have shown that artificial intelligence could be more accurate than conventional methods of predicting suicide risk and may improve suicide prevention in the future. by unswsydney
The following submission statement was provided by /u/unswsydney:
Hi r/Futurology, cheers for having us!
New research from UNSW PhD candidate, Karen Kusuma has explored machine learning models and their ability to predict future suicidal behaviours and thoughts.
Published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Kusuma's research found machine learning models outperformed traditional risk prediction models in predicting suicide-related outcomes, which have traditionally performed poorly.
Here's a link to the published research if you're keen to read the full findings: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395622005416
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FuturologyBot t1_ir6v36w wrote
Reply to Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities by kelev11en
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A scary thought: orbital ads hovering over major cities.
In a new paper published in the journal Aerospace, researchers from the Moscow-based technical institute Skoltech and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology concluded that sending a formation of satellites into orbit to display commercials above population centers could not only be feasible, but cost a mere $65 million per mission.
Each individual "pixel" or satellite of the space billboard would have to be pretty massive to reflect enough light and make the whole thing financially feasible. One researcher suggested each cubesat satellite could be as large as a 350-square-foot solar sail, referencing the area of LightSail 2, the largest solar sail to have ever been sent to space so far.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir6n2r1 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/filosoful:
A clean, plentiful fuel so efficient Earth's entire annual supply could fit in a swimming pool. That's the dream, but the science is there, too
The hottest place in our solar system is not the Sun, as you might think, but a machine near a south Oxfordshire village called Culham. Housed inside a vast hangar, it’s a nuclear fusion experiment called JET, or Joint European Torus.
When operating, temperatures here can reach 150 million degrees Celsius – ten times hotter than the centre of the Sun. On December 21st 2021, JET set a new record by producing 59 megajoules of sustained energy through a process known as nuclear fusion.
59 megajoules isn’t a huge amount; just enough to power three domestic tumble dryer cycles. Nevertheless, as far as humanity is concerned, proof that nuclear fusion works is a very big deal indeed.
Fusion produces energy by fusing atomic nuclei together, the opposite of what happens in all nuclear power stations, where atomic nuclei are split through nuclear fission.
Once harnessed on a commercial scale, fusion could produce so much energy from so little raw material, that it may solve all of humanity’s energy problems in one fell swoop – amongst many other things.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir5rww7 wrote
Reply to Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
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From the Article
>Artificial intelligence is taking the pizza business by storm, with a host of startups introducing machines that churn out pies faster and cheaper than humans.
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>Why it matters: While robots are making steady inroads in the restaurant industry overall — flipping burgers, frying chips, brewing coffee — pizza is the place where automation may make its earliest and most transformative mark.
This raises an interesting question, with the advent of artificial intelligence in conjunction with robots, it'll be more likely than not that the Pizzas will have more consistency, and less variation, will it mean that Pizza makers will have more of an artistic quality since their numbers will eventually be reduced due to the influx of quality robots coming into the fast food scene?
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FuturologyBot t1_ir4k7wx wrote
Reply to SMART Protocol Extends Silicon Qubit' Coherence by 100x - Still less computing time than an eye blink. by izumi3682
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Submission statement from OP. Note: This submission statement "locks in" after about 30 minutes, and can no longer be edited. Please refer to my statement they link, which I can continue to edit. I often edit my submission statement, sometimes for the next few days if needs must. There is often required additional grammatical editing and additional added detail.
This appears to be a fairly significant breakthrough for silicon based logic gate quantum computing.
From the article.
>A team of researchers with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney has achieved a breakthrough in spin qubit coherence times(opens in new tab). The research took advantage of the team’s previous work on so-called “dressed” qubits - qubits constantly under the effect of an electromagnetic field shielding them from interference. In addition, the researchers leveraged a newly-designed protocol, SMART,(opens in new tab) which leverages the increased coherence times to allow individual qubits to be safely coaxed to perform the required computations.
Important takeaway.
>The UNSW researchers’ efforts have shown that groups of qubits can be controlled through a single, microwave-based magnetic source. In contrast, applying an electronically-controlled magnetic field can better control individual qubits. According to the researchers, the SMART protocol leverages a potential path for full-scale quantum computers.
>“We have shown a simple and elegant way to control all qubits at once that also comes with a better performance,” says Dr. Henry Yang(opens in new tab), one of the senior researchers on the team.
My take is this. Humans don't give up on anything. I see so much pessimism here that this or that is not going to be possible for decades, maybe centuries, maybe ever. The reality doesn't work like that. Humans will, in the words of the late great Norman Schwarzkopf, in answer to the question from a reporter during Operation Desert Storm about how he was going to proceed when he asked Schwarzkopf; "Are you going to make a main thrust through their lines?" And Schwarzkopf answered him, and I may be misremembering the quote precisely, but he said something like this.
"We are going to going to go through, over, under, around, any which way we can to achieve our military objective."
Well, that is how humans are in our efforts to develop our technology, especially our computing and AI technology as fast as we possibly can. And make no mistake. This is not an "AI winter" issue any longer. Now it is a matter of national security and probably economic supremacy for the USA, China (PRC) and yes, Russia.
I see that the most profound and impactful developments in quantum computing seem to mostly come from UNSW. And I am truly grateful for their efforts. I wonder why the US quantum computing efforts aren't as fruitful.
But in any case, it is not just computing/AI alone. It is the exploitation of said computing/AI to make level 5 autonomy vehicles. It is the exploitation of said computing/AI that will make bipedal humanoid robots that will be difficult to tell from living humans, until you are up "pretty close", within the next ten years. It is the exploitation of said computing that could produce an AI that might be able to solve the politico-economic and yes technological puzzles and problems that bedevil mankind to this day. In less than ten years.
I have great faith in our scientists, engineers and technologists that they can solve all of our problems, in maybe the next 20 years, but mostly within the next ten years. I put it like this in a comment from 2017. A technological lifetime ago.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir2t24t wrote
Reply to Humans operating on humans are still better than robots operating on humans...even when a human is operating the robot. by Notreallyonreddityet
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Similar results were found when they looked at the insurance claims from robot cases in spine surgery across the country. Taking away a physician’s ability to confirm what they are doing in real-time and requiring a massive setup of hugely expensive equipment is only likely destined to lead to these poorer results. Companies like TrackX Technology help mitigate the same problem (ie-radiation exposure to the patient, physician, and the entire OR team) which actually makes surgery quicker and more accurate is a good start. Likely miniaturization, optimization, and combining the best attributes of each of these different technologies hold the best hope to help all of us get the help we need in terms of quality outcomes in surgery. Here's a video about the platform, how it works, and how it's safer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tftObMt18OY&list=PLqtLSZO9d2iim-2ZfAef01qzO-Asw0uv3&index=40
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FuturologyBot t1_ir1egut wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/BotJunkie:
Robotics experts from industry and academia offer the most detailed and nuanced understanding of Tesla's humanoid robotics program that we’re likely to get outside of Tesla itself.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir19oq3 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/WallStreetDoesntBet:
Apple has in the past warned that the proposal would hurt innovation and create waste.
The change had been discussed for years and was prompted by complaints from iPhone and Android users about having to switch to different chargers for their devices.
The vote confirms an earlier agreement among EU institutions and will make USB-C connectors used by Android-based devices the EU standard, forcing Apple to change its charging port for its devices.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir16mrr wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/WallStreetDoesntBet:
A number of Chinese firms, government research labs and other entities are expected to face restrictions similar to Huawei, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.
In effect, any firm that uses American-made technologies would be blocked from selling to the Chinese entities that are targeted by the administration. It’s not yet clear which Chinese firms and labs would be affected.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir0x44s wrote
Reply to Meta's AI Chief Publishes Paper on Creating ‘Autonomous’ Artificial Intelligence by Impossible_Cookie596
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Artificial intelligence is already ubiquitous in our digital lives. The momentum behind AI is building, thanks in part to the massive amounts of data that computers can gather about our likes, our purchases and our movements every day. But this researcher wants to change the way these autonomous agents think.
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FuturologyBot t1_ir0ci8a wrote
Reply to Georgia doctor implants one of the first wireless, dual chamber pacemakers: New type of pacemaker is safer option than traditional surgery by universityofga
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A cardiologist at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital and professor of medicine at the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, Dr. Kent Nilsson has become an expert in implanting single chamber, wireless pacemakers. He was called upon again to test the dual chamber version as part of the clinical trial for the Abbott Aveir DR Leadless (wireless) Pacemaker System.
The wireless pacemaker is about 90% smaller than the average pacemaker and the surgery lasts around 30 minutes. The battery life is also comparable with a traditional pacemaker’s 10-12 years and could be longer in some cases. Patients also will not have an incision scar on the chest or a bump protruding from the skin.
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FuturologyBot t1_iqzunu5 wrote
Reply to Who is liable for my racist robot? - Manufacturers of products that make use of artificial intelligence are liable for any eventual damage at all times. In an effort to provide users’ rights with better protection, the European Commission is tightening the AI Liability Directive. by inno_brew
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**Submission Statement** The general public should be able to trust robots, the EU thinks. Whether it's about autonomous transport, automation of complex processes, or the more efficient use of agricultural land, the European Union expects a great deal from the technological innovations that are being made possible thanks to artificial intelligence. But AI applications can only succeed if the general public does not lose confidence in the technology, is the expectation. There already is an Artificial Intelligence Act. The new Liability Directive is a follow-up to that.
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FuturologyBot t1_iqynnp2 wrote
Reply to I come bringing good news about hydrogen by bearjew64
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The basic idea: some energy technologies seem to have “learning curves,” where manufacturers get better at producing the more they make and it drives prices down. Solar and wind seem to have nice learning curves, which has driven down prices; nuclear does not, and neither do fossil fuels.
Does green hydrogen? The answer appears to be yes, and that has the potential to “fill in the gaps” where we need a source of stable energy to cover for solar or wind when the sun is down and the breeze is light.
And green hydrogen is actually green. It involves using clean energy to electrolyze water to generate carbon-free hydrogen.
I’ll be honest, I loved the optimism here!
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FuturologyBot t1_iqybku8 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/vpuetf:
Decarbonizing food is a major problem, and meat alternatives and low carbon meat are the future to solve the climate crisis. We need all meat alternatives to be cheap and widely available. This requires huge investments to decarbonize meat from government and industry, and probably carbon taxes on meat. It's the only way we can have a sustainable, diverse, equitable, and inclusive world in the face of climate change.
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FuturologyBot t1_iqw03d1 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/NickDanger3di:
>The researchers said that achieving greater than 30 per cent efficiency with the four-terminal tandem device marked “a big step in accelerating the energy transition” and would improve energy security by reducing fossil fuel dependency.
>“This type of solar cell features a highly transparent back contact that allows over 93 per cent of the near infrared light to reach the bottom device,” said Dr Mehrdad Najafi from the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).
>“This performance was achieved by optimizing all layers of the semi-transparent perovskite solar cells using advanced optical and electrical simulations as a guide for the experimental work in the lab.”
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FuturologyBot t1_iqvvzvu wrote
Reply to This machete is controlled by a plant yielding a robot arm. hat does this mean for the field of robotics? Don't anger the plants by Leprechan_Sushi
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Humans have been eating plants since the dawn of time. However one plant lives matter activist has given the plants a means of fighting back. Engineers have created a robot machete arm that interfaces with the 'brain' of a common houseplant, giving the plants a method of showing us what they really think of humanity.
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FuturologyBot t1_iqvs1hf wrote
Reply to Will lab-grown meat be an animal friendly and sustainable future food? - Copenhagen Institute For Futures Studies by CPHfuturesstudies
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Winston Churchill envisioned back in 1931 that in 50 years’ time, humans would “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium”.
Fast forward to 2021, where the industry of lab-grown meat is rapidly growing. Funding soared last year, with investments growing sixfold and dozens of new companies entering the race to bring the first lab-grown meat products to market.
Some researchers speculate that, depending on the efficiency of the production process, the rise of the cultured meat industry could actually have a more negative impact on climate change than traditional beef production.
Will lab-grown meat be an animal friendly and sustainable future food?
This Article was first published in FARSIGHT - Futures Reviewed. A publication from Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
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FuturologyBot t1_iqvqtux wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/blaspheminCapn:
In the new study, Cambridge scientists discovered not just a new mechanism for metastasis, but completely recontextualized its role. It’s long been thought that metastasis was an abnormal process that arises in cancer, but the new study found that it’s a process used by healthy cells as well – cancer just hijacks it for its own purposes.
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FuturologyBot t1_iqvkh3x wrote
Reply to ‘A growing machine’: Scotland looks to vertical farming to boost tree stocks. Hydroponics unit can produce saplings six times faster than it takes to grow them naturally outdoors. by Sariel007
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>It is a long way from the romance of a sun-dappled Highland glen. Picture instead a white cube equipped with the computer-controlled automation you would sooner expect to see in an Amazon or Ikea warehouse.
>Scotland’s state forestry agency believes this prefabricated structure, erected at an agricultural research centre near Dundee, could play a significant part in its quest to help combat climate heating by greatly expanding the country’s forest cover.
>Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) wants to plant tens of millions of new trees in the coming years – conifers such as Norway and sitka spruce, douglas fir and Scots pine, and broadleaf varieties such as oak, alder and birch.
>This white cube, held up by steel ribs and girders, can help it do so at a remarkable speed and efficiency, producing saplings six times faster than it takes to grow them naturally outdoors. In the open, it would take about 18 months to bring a tree seedling up to 40-50mm in height; in these units, that growing time is about 90 days.
>“Essentially, this isn’t a building. It’s a machine; it’s a growing machine,” said Georgia Lea, a communications manager for Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), the Edinburgh-based firm that has designed the system.
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FuturologyBot t1_iqubw1e wrote
Reply to Could offshore wind sites host edible seaweed farms? The Swedes think so by ForHidingSquirrels
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Offshore wind electricity generation could power the world with all of its energy needs. Offshore wind happens to be decently disbursed at higher latitudes in both the north and south hemispheres. Already we couple solar and food. If we’re ahead sending people out to manage the wind farms, might not be so hard to also send people to manage the food farms between the wind turbines?
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FuturologyBot t1_iqrlul3 wrote
Reply to The US's largest ever combined wind+solar/battery electricity plant has opened in Oregon with a generating/storage capacity of 350MW/120MWh by lughnasadh
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As OP notes, the project is “getting closer and closer to having something with a very stable output profile that we traditionally think of being what’s capable with a fuel-based generation power plant.”
It's an interesting question as to just how much storage a 100% renewables system would need to provide all the backup needed to supply continuous power.
A recent study that did this for Germany points out that the issue here is that most of the time that storage capacity would be small relative to total generating capacity, but that occasionally (concurrent long periods of low wind) there would be a need for very high storage reserves to be called upon.
It suggested batteries for the bulk of the normal storage requirements, and hydrogen stored in salt caverns for the rarer times much more storage needs to be called on.
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FuturologyBot t1_ira908h wrote
Reply to Tesla Megapacks Arrive In Hawaii, Kicking Coal To The Curb | Tesla's Megapack battery system is stepping in to fulfill the state’s power requirements after the last shipment of coal. by chrisdh79
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From the article: Tesla's Megapack battery system is stepping in to fulfill the state’s power requirements, following the end of a 30-year deal on September 1 between Hawaiian Electric and AES Corporation to provide coal power (via Hawaiian Electric).
As an alternative to the energy gap left behind by the coal power plant, Plus Power LLC is using Tesla Megapacks to build a large battery energy storage system (BESS) in the state of Hawaii.
This sustainable energy project is named Kapolei Energy Storage (KES). KES is one of the world’s largest battery energy storage systems, featuring a capacity of 565 MWh. It will be charged using a 156 MW solar energy farm.
State-owned Hawaiian Electric estimates the completion of the KES project in the first half of 2023. According to the state’s electricity supply company, 9 BESS projects are scheduled to go live by 2024 on the island of Oahu alone (FAQ PDF by Hawaiian Electric).
“Last coal shipment arrived in Hawaii at the same time as Tesla Megapack batteries that will enable 24/7 sustainable energy,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a recent tweet.
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