The use of artificial intelligence in science is not new—recall such systems as AlphaFold and Atomwise. But recently an international team of researchers set out to build an "AI Scientist" capable of doing nearly everything a scientist does, including formulating a hypothesis, designing experiments, analyzing results, and writing research papers. They ended up with something that they claimed heralded "the beginning of a new era in scientific discovery.” Unfortunately, it occasionally faked results or misunderstood them, despite the (real) scientists' strenuous efforts to keep the system on the straight and narrow. https://lnkd.in/exFuWuKY
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A key component to Taiwan’s geopolitical future and independence falls on an unlikely actor: microchip maker TSMC. The company supplies the world with the most sophisticated chips that enable smartphones, data centers and AI models, and generated 7.3 percent of Taiwan’s GDP last year. TSMC is so critical to the global semiconductor industry that the United States won’t let Taiwan’s sophisticated chip fabs fall under China’s control, and China won't risk the economic devastation of a fab-destroying invasion, making TSMC Taiwan's "Silicon Shield". Or so the logic goes. But the amount of electricity it takes to keep TSMC running is growing at an astounding rate. On top of that, TSMC’s biggest customers, like Apple, Google, and Nvidia, have asked suppliers like TSMC to adopt clean energy. How will the company and its diplomatically isolated government meet this confluence of demands? IEEE Spectrum's Peter Fairley visited TSMC and Taiwan’s grid operator, Taipower, to investigate.
TSMC’s Energy Demand Drives Taiwan’s Geopolitical Future
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Taiwan's position at the pinnacle of advanced-chip making means that an invasion by China would likely devastate not just Taiwan but also major segments of vital advanced-tech industries, such as the enterprise of training large-language models. That unique situation offers some deterrent value against an invasion. But it also depends on Taiwan's continued preeminence in chipmaking. And that, in turn, depends on meeting a steadily-increasing demand for green energy that will challenge even one of the world's mightiest companies: TSMC. https://lnkd.in/dvPY6VNb
TSMC’s Energy Demand Drives Taiwan’s Geopolitical Future
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“What I realized through my volunteer work in #IEEE is that you’re never alone. There is always somebody to guide you,” says Senior Member @Sharlene Brown.
A Non-Engineer’s Journey to IEEE Leadership
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The extended stay of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams has exposed stark differences in the cultures of SpaceX, Boeing, and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration—with uncomfortable questions being asked about Boeing and NASA by Charles Camarda PhD and others. Ned Potter has the scoop. https://lnkd.in/eJ6SwKcA
‘Stuck in Space’? Boeing Starliner’s Lessons for the Future
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The state of ransomware has shifted recently thanks to the rise of "ransomware-as-a-service." Former CIA officer and partner at K&L Gates, Guillermo Christensen explains how the trend has changed the extortion game. "There was a feeling among many of the ransomware groups, 'Don’t do this. We have a great business here. Don’t mess it up by making it so much more likely that the U.S. government’s going to do something about this.'" https://lnkd.in/e7Tuajej
Ransomware-as-a-Service Is Changing Extortion Efforts
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Richard Garwin, 96, designed the very first hydrogen bomb at age 23 and then spent the rest of his career helping to invent hugely successful technologies for IBM while also advising top U.S. government officials and advocating for arms control and nonproliferation. He is a towering figure of 20th-Century technology and science and yet a very humble man who is much less well known than many of his peers and contemporaries. In this interview, Garwin talks about his life and work, his colleagues Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller, and he answers questions about how a small group of clashing egos managed to conceive and build one of the 20th Century's most momentous technologies. https://lnkd.in/eyHiBdcr
How the Designer of the First Hydrogen Bomb Got the Gig
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Stable Diffusion version 1.5, one of the image generators that has been most implicated in the production of CSAM, has just disappeared from the popular hosting platform Hugging Face. https://lnkd.in/eufXu9hi #onlinesafety
Was an AI Image Generator Taken Down for Making Child Porn?
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Low-Earth-Orbit satellite communication companies, such as SpaceX's Starlink, Amazon's Project Kuiper, and Eutelsat OneWeb, have launched thousands of satellites in recent years. Now they are getting a Chinese competitor, Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology with its Qianfan megaconstellation project. The organization plans to launch 13,904 satellites by 2030—an astounding rate of seven per day. Andrew Jones reports https://lnkd.in/g8x5KHhB
Can China Challenge SpaceX's Starlink?
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“There’s nowhere else in the world that you’re going to get a quantum company, a games company, and a cybersecurity company in such close proximity across this super-cluster arc located in Sydney.” Australia has experienced a remarkable surge in #AI enterprise during the past decade. Significant AI research and commercialization concentrated in Sydney drives the sector’s development nationwide and influences AI trends globally. The city’s cutting-edge AI sector sees academia, business and government converge to foster groundbreaking advancements, positioning Australia as a key player on the international stage. https://lnkd.in/gyGz6e7G