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Artificial intelligence designs battery requiring 70 percent less lithium

01/17/202401/16/2024 Stephanie Beck

This has the potential to make electric vehicles much more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Artificial intelligence was recently used to design a surprising new type of battery that would require substantially less lithium – a rare metal – to achieve the same energy storage results. Lithium mining is terrible for the environment and drives up the cost of vehicle batteries. By reducing the need for lithium – as could be the case if the battery design created by artificial intelligence proves feasible – electric vehicles and devices have the potential…

Osaka University unveils its third superconducting quantum computer

01/09/202401/08/2024 Sam Lambert

Quantum computer - Japan flag - Achievement

The achievement was accomplished as a result of a groundbreaking collaboration in Japan. Osaka University’s Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology in Japan is leading a collaboration that has now unveiled the third successful superconducting quantum computer in the country. The university worked with a number of core institutions in order to arrive at the achievement. The collaboration included institutions such as Amazon Web Services, NTT Corporation, RIKEN, and a consortium that includes Fujitsu Limited, e-trees.Japan Inc., QunaSys Inc., QuEL Inc, and Systems Engineering Consultants Co. LTD. Together, they…

Bing artificial intelligence provided false European elections information

12/21/202312/20/2023 Sam Lambert

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Researchers at AlgorithmWatch say that Bing didn’t often apply safety guidelines. Researchers from the AlgorithmWatch human rights organization have accused Microsoft’s artificial intelligence chatbot on Copilot of providing users with misleading and false information about European elections. The researchers said that Bing Chat, which was recently renamed Copilot provided false info on the topic. The researchers asked the artificial intelligence chatbot Copilot about the recent elections that took place in Germany’s Bavaria and Hesse states and in Switzerland. They determined that one in three of Copilot’s answers contained factual errors…

Mice wear tiny virtual reality goggles so researchers can learn about them

12/19/202312/18/2023 Julie Campbell

Virtual reality - concept image of lab mice wearing VR headsets

The gadgets allow scientists to develop better experiments so they can better understand them. Researchers have announced that they have developed a way to outfit lab mice with virtual reality goggles that will allow those researchers to learn a considerable amount about the rodents. The technology does sound odd, but it has a range of highly practical applications for research. Scientists plan to use the new virtual reality technology to better understand the way mice respond to things they typically experience in the wild, such as predatory birds. Though this…

Will Google’s Gemini take artificial intelligence to the next level?

12/18/202312/15/2023 Jesse Collins

Though OpenAI has been the solid leader in generative AI technology, Google aims to change that. Google is hoping that its Gemini generative artificial intelligence will be a game changer in the category that has been led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT by a large margin since 2022. ChatGPT has been leading the way by a considerable amount since it was first introduced. The latest version of GPT-4 is the latest LLM of OpenAI and is widely thought of as the most capable generative artificial intelligence model currently available. That said, Google…