Pay attention when someone talks about Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), because they’ll be here in basic format by about 2029, co-incidentally when Ray Kurzweil believes the Singularity will arrive. Researchers have successfully reconstructing images from brain activity, something considered to be a significant breakthrough in the field of neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI). This remarkable…
A new way of training AI – JEST, Joint Example Selection Techniques – a multimodal contrastive learning with Joint Example Selection (JEST)— according to a paper entitled “Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning” (published by DeepMind) surpasses state-of-the-art models with up to 13× fewer iterations and 10× less computation, making it significantly quicker,…
Parliament has adopted new rules to make USB type-C the common charging standard for small electronic devices by the end of 2024 because having different chargers for different devices inconveniences consumers and produces tonnes of unnecessary electroonic waste and therefore to help the EU rreach its envirronmental objectives as well as to lower consumer costs,…