AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Unwarranted concern about human extinction could steer governments away from regulation, because national leaders might seek an advantage over geopolitical rivals in an AI arms race
Two of the most hyped technologies just got more powerful together.
AI and quantum computing are separate revolutions. But a team at @ucl.ac.uk has shown what happens when you combine them - and their results matter for everything from weather forecasting to fluid dynamics.
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Turbulent flow is different: it matters for aircraft design, weather prediction, and nuclear fusion. More: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/from-turbule...
This also marks what researchers call quantum advantage, where a quantum machine fundamentally outperforms classical computers. Previous claims of quantum advantage have often been contested, or demonstrated only on artificial tasks.
The quantum step runs once, compresses the underlying patterns of a chaotic system into a compact "physics cheat sheet," and the AI uses that to stay grounded in reality.
The results are significant: predictive accuracy improved by up to 17% and fidelity by up to 29% on real chaotic systems.
Maida Wang, Xiao Xue, Mingyang Gao and Peter Coveney found a fix, Quantum-Informed Machine Learning, or QIML.
The problem they set out to solve is one AI has quietly struggled with for years: chaos. Weather systems, turbulence, fluid dynamics - AI trained on such systems can quickly drift into nonsense.
Two of the most hyped technologies just got more powerful together.
AI and quantum computing are separate revolutions. But a team at @ucl.ac.uk has shown what happens when you combine them - and their results matter for everything from weather forecasting to fluid dynamics.
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Magnetic muon measurements and gene-therapy advances win US$3 million Breakthrough prizes www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Honour, pleasure and fun to grill @maxjtelford.bsky.social about his brilliant book, The Tree of Life!
I had a great chat with @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social about what science and mathematics can - and cannot - tell us about the universe, at the #VoicesofFaith fest
The video has just been posted, and Marcus is always brilliant value:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dZu...
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“The protein itself serves as the blueprint for the DNA sequence....this is a fundamentally new way that life produces DNA.”
More: www.science.org/content/arti...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Look forward to climbing around the tree of life with @maxjtelford.bsky.social at 2pm for the Barnesbury Book Festival! www.barnsburybookfestival.org/whats-on
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Look forward to talking to Max Telford about his book The Tree of Life at the mighty new #BarnesburyBookFestival tomorrow at 2pm! www.barnsburybookfestival.org
Naked without ‘em!
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A hoot to catch up with @lindageddes.bsky.social and Nic Fleming in the @sciencemuseum.org.uk for a quick gossip!
Analysis concludes “breakthrough" Alzheimer's drugs are unlikely to benefit patients. But Bart De Strooper, from the UK Dementia Research Institute, said "the flaw in this review is fundamental". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looking forward to the latest edition of @wired.com Health!
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Fabulous to meet up, as ever! And, yes, Lucy’s amazing…
Fabulous to catch up with my favourite explorer, brilliant @lucyshepherd.bsky.social , at the launch of her first book, Into the Wild, just before her Secret Africa: Into the Wild airs on C4! www.lucy-shepherd.com
