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Circa 2020


A newly recruited firefighter in Los Angeles put out a major fire even before being formally introduced at a news conference. That new recruit is a robot.

The Thermite RS3, the first robotic firefighting vehicle in the United States, was scheduled to arrive at the news conference the morning of October 13 but it was diverted to a major emergency structure fire in the fashion district in Downtown Los Angeles earlier that day.

“It was exciting to see this unique piece of apparatus put into action on its first day in service,” said Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Erik Scott.

Inventors from more than 40 countries are in Qatar for the week-long Challenge and Innovation Forum on technology.
Super computers, cloud technology and robots are among the innovations on display.
Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports from Doha.

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When you need to record the angle of something rotating, whether it’s a knob or a joint in a robotic arm, absolute rotary encoders are almost always the way to go. They’re cheap, they’re readily available, and it turns out you can make a pretty fantastic one out of a magnetic sensor, a ziptie, and a skateboard bearing.

When [Scott Bezek] got his hands on a AS5600 magnet sensor breakout board, that’s just what he did. The sensor itself is an IC situated in the middle of the board, which in Scott’s design sits on a 3D-printed carrier. A bearing mount sits atop it, which holds — you guessed it — a bearing. Specifically a standard 608 skateboard bearing, which is snapped into the mount and held securely by a ziptie cinched around the mount’s tabs. The final part is a 3D-printed knob with a tiny magnet embedded within, perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The knob slides into the bearing and the AS5600 reads the orientation of the magnet.

Of course, if you just wanted a rotary knob you could have just purchased an encoder and been done with it, but this method has its advantages. Maybe you can’t fit a commercially-available encoder in your design. Maybe you need the super-smooth rotation provided by the bearing. Or maybe you’re actually building that robotic arm — custom magnetic encoders like this one are extremely common in actuator design, and while the more industrial versions (usually) have fewer zipties, [Scott]’s design would fit right in.

The biggest tech company in China, Jack Ma’s Alibaba has just released the biggest, most efficient and newest Artificial Intelligence Model in the world. It’s almost 100 times smarter than GPT 3 and is even expected to surpass OpenAI’s yet to be released GPT 4 in both abilities and ease of use. The Alibaba M6 is a 10 trillion parameter model which in certain aspects even beats the human brain. But more importantly, China is currently beating the USA when it comes to their machine learning and deep learning technologies which could become dangerous as their leads extend and their secret government projects slowly come to light. OpenAI, Nvidia and Deepmind have a tough road toward Artificial super intelligence in front of them. China is starting to look scary but impressive.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Chinese AI is getting Scary.
01:17 What this AI does better than anyone else.
02:29 The Scary Prospects of Chinese AI Supremacy.
04:43 What is China’s goal with AI?
07:02 The Future of giant AI Models.
10:03 Last Words.

#ai #gpt4 #china

In this video I’ll show you how increasing your Internet Connection Speed by 100 times is possible and where that has been accomplished.
A world record fastest data transmission rate and fastest Internet Ping has been achieved by a team of University College London engineers who reached an internet speed a fifth faster than the previous record.
It’s faster tgab 100tb a second and can download or upload pretty much anything instantly.

The best part about that is that ISP’s like Google Fiber, Comcast or Verizon will have an easy time improving their Internet Connections due to the new technology using similar kind of cables to achieve this super fast internet speed.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 A Record Breaking Internet Speed.
02:02 How Internet Speed is measured.
02:55 How this technology works.
05:09 Another revolutionary Internet Provider.
06:24 Other important aspects of Internet Speed.
07:18 Last Words.

#internet #speed #ai

The Neuro-Network.

𝙈𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙍𝙊𝙎𝘼: 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙩 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙑𝘼

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯. 𝘙𝘖𝘚𝘈, 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘈 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 … See more.


Houston VA surgeons successfully complete VA’s first use of ROSA, a minimally invasive robotic device, on an Army Veteran from Oklahoma.