NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock(livescience.com)

60 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 20 comments

DARPA unveils 6 new designs for uncrewed vertical-takeoff military aircraft(livescience.com)

24 points by belter 2 years ago | 8 comments

Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests(livescience.com)

99 points by Stratoscope 1 year ago | 123 comments

Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers(wikimediafoundation.org)

56 points by thm 1 year ago | 28 comments

New urinal designs prevent 265,000 gallons of urine splashing onto the floor(livescience.com)

70 points by anjel 1 year ago | 83 comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’(cnbc.com)

339 points by tiahura 2 years ago | 267 comments

CNBC article on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiling the Blackwell generation of AI GPUs and software, expected to ship later in 2024.

Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part(a16z.news)

56 points by gmays 3 days ago | 36 comments

An a16z essay arguing that AI models may soon master hardware design, but the lossy interface between digital designs and physical manufacturing and measurement remains the hard part.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)

85 points by merksittich 17 days ago | 64 comments

Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit(djnn.sh)

1070 points by vxvxvx 11 months ago | 300 comments

Blog post criticizing Anthropic's report on disrupting an AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign; the captured page shows a Cloudflare block screen.