What if AI companion systems become so believable, humans begin to treat them as a shoulder to lean on? This has already began to happen and in this episode, we take a deep dive to investigate.
The World’s Largest Battery Isn’t What You Think
Because of the intermittency of renewable energy like wind and solar power, storing large amounts of electricity is a necessity for the decarbonization of our energy system. However, we still don’t have enough batteries to compensate for renewable energy slumps across the planet. When thinking about the biggest utility-scale energy storage installations, a huge cylindrical lithium ion battery powered light bulb may go off in your head. But what if I told you the world’s largest battery taps into water rather than lithium? Can an old technology, even one still learning new tricks, be the answer? Let’s see if we can come to a decision on this.
Catherine Cortez Masto Questions Witness About US’s Future In Quantum Computing
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) questioned witnesses during a Senate Energy Committee Hearing to consider pending legislation earlier this month.
Here’s how we survive the 21st Century. Maybe!
How do we survive the 21st Century? Well, the latest IPCC report suggests we’ll do it by making unprecedented and totally radical changes in the next eight years. And even then we’ll need to suck billions of tons of CO2 back out of our atmosphere for decades. They reckon it can be done. But are they right?
How Artificial-Intelligence Is Affecting Graphic Design (5 Interesting Cases)
I have looked at A.i (artificial intelligence) on this channel before. We have looked at how it may be taking over the graphic design world, and how it might be taking a lot of designer jobs. It isn’t necessarily a ‘bad’ thing however, as many designers think there will always been a need for human created designs, and also there will be the need for humans to see over A.i software. But today I have 5 examples of how artificial intelligence is in fact changing the graphic design and creative space.
What is blockchain and how does it work?
Finance Live’s Brad Smith explains what the blockchain is and how it works.
What is a DAO – Explained in 3 minutes (Animation)
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization is an organization that is created based on a set of rules encoded as a computer program.
The rules and codes are transparent and to be controlled by the members of the organization without any influence from a central body.
Let’s say there’s a vending machine that’s not only capable of accepting payment and dispensing snacks but can also place an order for more snacks automatically.
The vending machine can also pay its rent and order cleaning services by itself when required. Active users of the machine all have a say in how the machine operates.
The users determine which snacks the machine should order and also how often it should order cleaning services. There is no manager or board of directors, as all these processes were encoded into the vending machine when it was created.
In short: a DAO is about establishing a fully functional, automated organisation without hierarchical management.
Since DAOs don’t have managers delegating work about what and how things should be done, something else must take the role of it’s managing functions to fully function on it’s own.
A functioning DAO is created in phases, where the launch phase is used to define and activate the first set of rules, encoded as a smart contract.
After the launch phase, the DAO moves onto the funding phase because it needs an internal property that uses currency to carry out smart contract functions.
When both phases are complete, a DAO can function by itself and its functions are carried out by its stakeholders via way of voting.
After a DAO is deployed it becomes independent from its creators and is fully autonomous.
Every decision on how it operates and where to spend its funds are determined via voting and reaching collective consensus from it’s stakeholders.
All users who purchased a stake in a DAO have a right to make proposals regarding its future by paying a monetary fee for each proposal.
Then the stakeholders would vote on the proposal. To carry out the winning proposal, the majority must reach a consensus.
There’s a minimum percentage required to reach consensus and it can vary with per DAO. As with every operational rule, the required percentage to reach consensus is stated in the code.
Smart Contracts – Explained with Examples (Animation)
A Smart Contract is a set of computer codes built on the blockchain, which executes only when its predetermined conditions are met.
It operates according to a set of rules based on IF THEN.
That means that the contract’s function will be executed only when its predetermined conditions are satisfied and without interference of a third party or intermediary.
Imagine you’re interacting with a vending machine.
When you put your money into the vending machine, it immediately provides you with your desired choice.
Thus the need for an intermediary between you and the machine has been removed, since the logic was programmed into the machine itself.
In this situation your money is the required “if” condition, and the drink you received was the execution.
This is the same way smart contracts operate.
This is what enables developers to build a near limitless range of applications and protocols on the blockchain.
Smart contracts were first introduced on the Bitcoin blockchain, but were very limited in their functionality.
Then a revolution occurred when Ethereum introduced its platform for developing smart contracts, which has opened limitless possibilities of use cases and applications.
The main benefit of smart contracts is that they are permissionless, meaning anyone can build a contract and deploy it to a blockchain network.
They are also very secure, as blockchain cryptography leaves almost no possibility of successful hacking attempts.
In addition to that, security is fortified through contract immutability, meaning that once deployed, its code cannot be changed nor interfered with
OpenAI’s new model DALL·E 2 is amazing!
How DALL-E 2 creates images from text descriptions.
DALL-E is coming… World-changing AI image generator
OpenAI just announced a new AI Text-to-Image model based on GPT-3 called DALL-E 2. It is capable of turning a text description into a unique image or work of art that has never been seen before.