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Can we automate science? Sam Rodriques is already doing it.

Can we automate science? Sam Rodriques is already doing it.

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Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Artificial intelligence is already doing some pretty amazing things — writing stories, solving problems, creating songs, generating art, and producing lifelike videos and images. But these are mere parlor tricks compared to a more profound potential ability: automating discovery itself. Many scientists are already excited about AI. In a Nature survey of 1,600 scientists published in September 2023, more than half of respondents expected AI tools to be “very important” or “essential,” citing faster data processing, expedited computation, and a reduction of research time and costs.  But some people are working on an even more ambitious goal: AI models that could be transformed into “full stack” AI scientists, capable of not just formulating hypotheses but also conducting the experiments, analyzing data, and sharing possibly game-changing findings. The nonprofit FutureHouse is working to realize this vision. Its stated purpose is “to build AI systems that can scale scientific research and accelerate …

Sophie’s Brave New World | Sam Huber

Sophie’s Brave New World | Sam Huber

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Late one evening when I was twenty, a boy I liked shared a theory: queer people who come out in adulthood go through a second adolescence. Freed from the terrors and inhibitions of the closet, these late bloomers have to relearn how to navigate the big feelings that come with living in a body, hopelessly bound to other bodies by sex and gender. This made me furious; I was, of course, the case in point. (He can’t have come out more than three or four years before me, which made the idea seem particularly condescending.) It didn’t occur to me that starting from scratch might be a gift—something to revel in rather than suffer through. I’m able to think of that boy and his theory more generously now, as I remember what it felt like to hear the English producer and DJ Sophie for the first time. Her earliest singles appeared in 2013, when I was twenty-two. Their simple hooks, pitch-shifted vocals, and minimal, metallic arrangements offered not a return to adolescence but an alien …

Strictly Come Dancing’s Sam Quek has plenty to celebrate — despite her place on the leaderboard

Strictly Come Dancing’s Sam Quek has plenty to celebrate — despite her place on the leaderboard

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails With the first Argentine Tango of the series, jaw-dropping transformations and enough wigs to make Dolly Parton’s collection look small, Strictly Come Dancing Halloween week (once again) truly delivered. Saturday night’s episode saw a number of this year’s contestants impress on the dancefloor with three of them winning 10s for their routines. They included EastEnders star Jamie Borthwick — who is beginning to look like a serious contender for the Glitterball trophy — and Sarah Hadland, who spectacularly recovered from an early mishap to deliver a dramatic performance. The third was Tasha Ghouri, who has consistently pulled off high-scoring routines. But it’s a celebrity closer to the bottom of the leaderboard who has the most to celebrate. Prior to Saturday night’s show, Sam Quek had been struggling to make her mark on the competition and last week, she was left …

Strictly’s Sam Quek’s super cute children are literal pumpkins for Halloween

Strictly’s Sam Quek’s super cute children are literal pumpkins for Halloween

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Strictly Come Dancing contestant Sam Quek quickstepped up a storm in the ballroom with her partner Nikita Kuzmin last Saturday but behind the scenes, the former field hockey player’s focus is on her two adorable children – Molly, three, and Isaac, two, whom the family calls Zac. As fans look forward to Halloween week in the Strictly ballroom, those on the hunt for children’s costume inspiration should look no further than the former athlete’s Instagram.  You may also likeWATCH: Sam Quek shares sweetest holiday moment with lookalike kids © InstagramSam’s children got in the Halloween mood Last October, Sam, 36, shared a photo of Molly and Zac in the cutest pumpkin costumes. While Molly wore an orange organza dress and witch’s hat headpiece, Zac was so sweet in a pumpkin suit with a matching hat.  © InstagramMolly and Zac were the cutest pumpkins! The lookalike siblings posed in the family home in Sam’s native Liverpool. The Question of Sport star frequently shares the most adorable photos of her children.  © InstagramSam jetted off with the …

New Eye-Scanning Orb Revealed by Sam Altman’s World – Video

New Eye-Scanning Orb Revealed by Sam Altman’s World – Video

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New Eye-Scanning Orb Revealed by Sam Altman’s World New Eye-Scanning Orb Revealed by Sam Altman’s World New Eye-Scanning Orb Revealed by Sam Altman’s World All right, welcome everyone. We know many people flew in. So it’s like a really big deal for us that you’re here. This is a big day for us. Um We started working on this about five years ago and back then, we really believed that something like this should exist in an A I future that we all want to live in. And so not only do we think what we do is critical. We also think it’s very, very timely and that is why one of the main themes of today is about scale and how we can get all the products and services that we built to many, many more people in the next years. But before we talk about the extra products, we wanted to talk a little bit about why we are even here, why we started this? And what is top of mind for us? …

Hillbilly Elegy + Sam Thielman

Hillbilly Elegy + Sam Thielman

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JD Vance’s memoir established him as a rural white voter whisperer. What does it tell us about what kind of vice president he’d be? Less than a decade ago, America was introduced to JD Vance, who pitched himself as a middleman between coastal elites and the rural white Americans he’d been raised around. Hillbilly Elegy was part memoir/part explainer and, at the time, seemed to establish Vance as a moderate conservative who wanted to bridge the cultural, political and religious divide. In this episode, Tyler and journalist/critic Sam Thielman explore Hillbilly Elegy and chart Vance’s strange, subsequent journey to becoming Donald Trump’s running mate. Source link

More Than a Dozen Countries Now Investigating Sam Altman’s Dubious Eye-Scanning Scheme

More Than a Dozen Countries Now Investigating Sam Altman’s Dubious Eye-Scanning Scheme

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It’s not looking great. Philanthropic Privacy Sam Altman’s lesser-known venture, a bizarre iris-scanning crypto project called Worldcoin, has faced scrutiny in more than a dozen countries because nobody really knows what it does with all those eyeball scans. As the Wall Street Journal reports, jurisdictions around the world have cast a long shadow over the nominally altruistic project, which somehow seeks to marry crypto and biometrics to eventually provide a universal basic income for an unidentified number of people. The scheme is supposed to work like this: you scan your iris with the metallic orb, operated by a volunteer enthusiast, and get 25 of its bespoke cryptocurrency coins in exchange. After that, your iris is attached to your identity on Worldcoin’s supposedly secure blockchain, the opaque privacy of which is the subject of ample suspicion by governments worldwide. By our count, based on reporting from the WSJ and the nonprofit Rest of World, Worldcoin has been under government scrutiny in at least 14 countries on three continents, including France, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Chile. Those …

Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its m back | Silicon Valley

Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back | Silicon Valley

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Multiple events hosted at a historic former hotel in Berkeley, California, have brought together people from intellectual movements popular at the highest levels in Silicon Valley while platforming prominent people linked to scientific racism, the Guardian reveals. But because of alleged financial ties between the non-profit that owns the building – Lightcone Infrastructure (Lightcone) – and jailed crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, the administrators of FTX, Bankman-Fried’s failed crypto exchange, are demanding the return of almost $5m that new court filings allege were used to bankroll the purchase of the property. During the last year, Lightcone and its director, Oliver Habryka, have made the $20m Lighthaven Campus available for conferences and workshops associated with the “longtermism”, “rationalism” and “effective altruism” (EA) communities, all of which often see empowering the tech sector, its elites and its beliefs as crucial to human survival in the far future. At these events, movement influencers rub shoulders with startup founders and tech-funded San Francisco politicians – as well as people linked to eugenics and scientific racism. Since acquiring the Lighthaven property …

The work of Sam Hanna, the ‘Lowry of film-making’ – in pictures | Art and design

The work of Sam Hanna, the ‘Lowry of film-making’ – in pictures | Art and design

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Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering film-maker from Burnley, Lancashire, was once called the ‘Lowry of film-making’. His work depicts people of all ages as they lived and worked in a region that was rapidly losing its economic role and industrial identity in postwar Britain. A collection of his work is available to view at the North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University Round Our Way: Sam Hanna’s Visual Legacy by Heather Norris Nicholson is published by Pendle Press Source link

Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing

Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing

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Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI and the man who’s name has basically become synonymous with AI, has won investor approval for his latest project, nuclear company Oklo, which is set to list on the NYSE Friday via a SPAC . The company, which trades as ALCC until then will debut under the symbol OKLO at the end of the week. Altman is chairman of the company, which will design and deploying advanced fission power plants to provide the clean and affordable energy needed to power the flood of data centers popping up around the nation as part of the AI revolution. The company will finalize its deal with AltC Acquisition Corporation today. The merger with AltC, a SPAC backed by Altman and Michael Klein, valued Oklo at $850 million when announced in July. As was announced in a press release yesterday:  AltC stockholders voted to approve the business combination between AltC and Oklo Inc. (“Oklo”), a fast fission clean power technology and nuclear fuel recycling company. Almost 100% of the votes cast at the meeting, …