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Subscribe to our newsletterToday’s top story Don’t believe your AIs
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has claimed that humanity has already achieved AGI, but others are less than convinced. (Image credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Have large language models (LLMs) matched or surpassed human intelligence? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang asserts this is the case, stating, “I think we’ve achieved AGI” during a March 23rd appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast.
Considered the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence (AI) excitement, there have been numerous declarations of achieving “artificial general intelligence” since LLMs became widely accessible in 2022, notwithstanding the scarce scientific backing that current chatbots are anywhere near achieving this, and the looming threat of energy and supply chain disruptions from the Iran war potentially deflating an AI bubble.
Huang supported his assertions by mentioning OpenClaw, an open-source AI framework that gained considerable attention with the release of Moltbook, a social platform for AI entities that threatened (in what was likely a fabricated scenario) a complete human extermination.
Huang later qualified his remarks on the same program, remarking, “Many individuals utilize it [OpenClaw] for a couple of months and it eventually fades away. Now, the probability of 100,000 of those agents constructing Nvidia is 0%.”
The trendFranken-swine
The unprecedented preservation of a pig’s brain could open a path to human brain preservation in the future. (Image credit: Getty Images)
Researchers have achieved a significant advancement toward enabling revival after death by successfully freezing a pig’s brain with minimal damage, effectively halting its cellular activity, as reported by New Scientist.
The technique involved perfusing a pig’s brain with preserving solutions and cryoprotectants before subjecting it to freezing. This methodology resulted in an unparalleled level of preservation for the brain’s neurons, synapses, and fundamental molecular structures.
Nevertheless, some scientists express doubt regarding the possibility of reanimating the pig post-procedure, suggesting that the experiment more closely resembles high-fidelity embalming rather than a viable path to revival.
Would you opt for brain preservation if it were possible? What would be your motivations for doing so? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Photo of the dayArctic blast paints a Florida plume
A pale blue plume of sediment glows off the southwest coast of Florida after a cold blast of Arctic air was pushed over the eastern U.S. by the polar vortex (Image credit: NASA/Terra/Landsat)
This image, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in February, displays a vivid swirl of marine sediment off the Florida coast, stirred up by a surge of frigid Arctic air that brought severe winter conditions to extensive areas of the U.S. earlier this year, driven by the polar vortex.
Say it, said itWord of the day
Slobgollion — Coined by Herman Mellville in “Moby-Dick,” this substance is derived from squeezing spermaceti — the prized waxy white substance found inside sperm whale head cavities.
“There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance. It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting. I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 94.
Researchers reported this week that they have filmed sperm whales headbutting each other, appearing to confirm anecdotal accounts from 18th- and 19th-century whalers that inspired Melville’s novel.
Quote of the day
“Viruses are the most abundant entity in the body. There are more viruses than there are human cells, bacterial cells and any other cells. Yet their role is a huge black box.”
Jeremy Barr, a virologist at Monash University in Australia on how viruses in the gut may help prevent blood sugar spikes.
Fun and games
Think you know your hardy micro-animals? Take this crossword to see if you can guess the most famous one of all.
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