Oxford scientist says greedy physicists have overhyped quantum computing

Aug26
by on August 26, 2022 at 7:50 pm
Posted In: Opinion


Nikita Gourianov, a physicist at Oxford university, yesterday published a scathing article full of wild, damning claims about the field of quantum computing and the scientists who work in it. According to Gourianov, the quantum computing industry has been led astray by greedy physicists who’ve hyped up the tech’s possibilities in order to rip off VCs and get paid private-sector salaries for doing academic research. Double, double Per Gourianov’s article, the real problems started in the 2010s after investors started taking notice of the hype surrounding quantum physics: As more money flowed in, the field grew, and it became progressively…

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How an award-winning AI film was brought to life by text-to-video generation

Aug26
by on August 26, 2022 at 5:49 pm
Posted In: Insider


If you’re impressed by the recent spate of text-to-image generators, get ready for the next step in AI artistry: text-to-video. While the huge compute costs and scarcity of text-to-video datasets have stunted the technique’s growth, recent research has brought the promise closer to reality. A computer artist called Glenn Marshall has given a glimpse at the potential. The Belfast-based composer recently won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival for his AI film The Crow. Marshall had previously earned plaudits for an AI-generated Daft Punk video, but he applied a different approach to The Crow. While his earlier technique…

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Counterpoint: AI is far more dangerous than quantum computing

Aug25
by on August 25, 2022 at 7:35 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


Vivek Wadhwa and Mauritz Kop recently penned an op-ed urging governments around the world to get ahead of the threat posed by the emerging technology known as quantum computing. They even went so far as to title their article “Why Quantum Computing is Even More Dangerous Than Artificial Intelligence.” Up front: This one gets a very respectful hard-disagree from me. While I do believe that quantum computing does pose an existential threat to humanity, my reasons differ wildly from those proposed by Wadhwa and Kop. Point Wadhwa and Kop open their article with a description of AI’s failures, potential misuse,…

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New water map of Mars reveals potential landing spots on the red planet

Aug25
by on August 25, 2022 at 5:27 pm
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A new “water map” of Mars could offer fresh clues about the planet’s past — and potential landing spots for the future. Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA) spent a decade developing the map from data collected by two Mars orbiters. They found hundreds of thousands of areas containing aqueous mineral deposits, which are created though interactions between rock and water. As the minerals still contain water molecules, they could show locations where we can extract water for human bases on the planet. These outcrops may also provide ideal sites for exploring whether life once began on Mars. The map…

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