Elon Musk's Tesla just had one of their fascinating nerd-fest days, this time proving (again) that they are the kings of vision AI for Full Self Driving (FSD) and . . are gonna build an android called TeslaBot as well. These were awesome reveals showing that their directly interpreting 8 camera views as a birds-eye …
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Well almost everything. With abundant sustainable energy and safe AI the world (and the solar system) is our oyster. We've heard it said by dreamers and techno-crazies that the future has amazing potential. We'll be zooming around in flying cars, cancer will be cured, we'll water the deserts. Is this true? I'm going to go …
We’ve been touting Tesla as the next best thing since sliced bread on this site for most of the year now, and privately for around 5 years, and, well, we got it right. The doubting always was irrational. Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX were clear leaders in EVs and sustainable energy and reusable aerospace. Even Tesla’s …
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The recent release of the study of the near loss of an Emirates A380 that pulled up from a steady descent with only 170 metres - and 15 seconds - to spare above Moscow airport in 2017 fully supports my call for unification of the multitude of automation systems on modern aircraft. I've argued before …
I've believed for at least 25 years - and that's provable in court - and probably longer that the most important aspect of AI is Natural Language Understanding (NLU), the bigger-brother of NLP (Natural Language Processing). NLU is what AIs in movies do. And what Siri and Alexa try to do. NLU AIs should ultimately …
With China, South Korea and Italy in full on pandemics, and most of the rest of the world preparing for it, which companies are making Coronavirus vaccines? These timely biotechs include: Novavax (NVAX)Gilead (GILD)Moderna (MRNA)Invio (INO) and have seen hikes of up to 50% in their stock prices. The question is whether they can make …
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In between my stint in particle physics and career in AI, I enjoyed 12 years in drug design at CSIRO (Australia's Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization) and I remember a fascinating piece of work which came out at that time and got talked around the lab coffee room for a few weeks. It was …
Continue reading Biggest new thing in Biotech? Maybe Fragment-Based Drug Design.
Anyone following Tesla would be aware of the controversy in valuing this company (currently around $150B), putting aside the coronavirus fears for a moment which we all hope will be temporary of course. With bulls like Catherine Wood's Ark Invest quoting an incredible $2.7T within four years and the bears and shorts predicting bankruptcy only …
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Buckminster Fuller Sometimes I feel that the world has gone mad. When technologists and futurists and investors like you and me can see the solutions starring us in the face . . and nobody …
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