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Oakridge National Labs Demos Record 270 kilowatt Wireless Charging of Electric Cars
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the first 270-kW wireless power transfer to a light-duty electric vehicle. The demonstration used a Porsche Taycan and was conducted in collaboration with Volkswagen Group of America using the ORNL-developed polyphase wireless charging system. As a light-duty passenger vehicle, the Porsche Taycan
Tesla 4680s Have Dry Process for Both Cathode and Anode
Home » Energy » Tesla 4680s Have Dry Process for Both Cathode and Anode Tesla 4680s have had slower ramping because of problems with the Cathode needing a wet process and cathodes made by other companies. Auto experts Munro Associates have taken apart a cybertruck and they think a dry process was used for both
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the Best Performing AI Model
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the best performing AI model according to the advanced Google Proof Q&A test. The concept of a “Google-proof” Q&A AI test and other benchmarks for evaluating higher-performing AI models are critical in measuring the capabilities and progress of artificial intelligence. These tests aim to assess AI’s ability to understand, reason, and
AI Models Are Undertrained by 100-1000 Times – AI Will Be Better With More Training Resources
The Chinchilla compute optimal point for an 8B (8 billion parameter) model would be train it for ~200B (billion) tokens. (if you were only interested to get the most “bang-for-the-buck” w.r.t. model performance at that size). So this is training ~75X beyond that point, which is unusual but personally, [Karpathy] thinks this is extremely welcome.
Print Edition 55: The Rebel Issue
Issue 55 of the Nautilus print edition is our Rebel Issue. It includes contributions from science writer Elena Kazamia, astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter, film producer Namir Khaliq, philosopher Jonathon Keats, and more. This issue also features new illustrations by Angie Wang and Mark Belan. Get the Nautilus newsletter Cutting-edge science, unraveled by the very brightest living thinkers. Inside an Exploded Star By
Protecting Artists from Theft by AI
In 2023, author Melanie Mitchell discovered that a cheap AI-generated imitation of her book on, ironically, the subject of artificial intelligence was for sale on Amazon. She reported it, but the platform didn’t take action to remove it until the story of the theft caught the attention of the media. “I was mad at Amazon
Among the most widely promoted examples of fossil folklore is a supposed link between the Central Asian horned dinosaur Protoceratops and the griffin, a gold-guarding mythical creature combining features of lions and birds. First proposed in the 1990s, this geomyth postulates that tales of Protoceratops fossils were transmitted westward along trade routes from Asian gold
Triassic Crocodile-Like Reptile Discovered in Brazil
A new genus and species of gracilisuchid reptile from the Triassic period has been identified from fossils found in the Santa Maria Formation in Brazil. Artistic representation of a Middle-Late Triassic landscape of southern Brazil: (a) a large Prestosuchus chiniquensis feeds on the carcass of a dicynodont while individuals of Parvosuchus aurelioi compete for scraps;
A Reality Check on Superhuman AI
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them.” That’s a quote from Leopold Aschenbrenner, a San Francisco-based AI researcher in his mid 20s who was recently fired from OpenAI and who, according to his own website, “recently founded an investment firm focused on artificial
Webb Spots Enigmatic Group of Aligned Protostellar Outflows in Serpens Nebula
These protostellar outflows are formed when jets of gas spewing from newborn stars collide with nearby gas and dust at high speeds. Typically these objects have a variety of orientations within one region. Within the Serpens Nebula, however, they are all slanted in the same direction, to the same degree, like sleet pouring down during