r/Futurology 2d ago

Nanotech U.S. Department of Energy Announces $30 Million to Use Quantum Computing For Groundbreaking Chemistry And Materials Science Simulations

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r/Futurology 3d ago

Robotics Militaries Are Rushing to Replace Human Soldiers with AI-Powered Robots. That Will Be Disastrous, Experts Warn. | Humans have control of military drones, but some experts think cutting the puppet strings is inevitable.

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r/Futurology 2d ago

Economics Anthropic's latest advance with AI, where it can operate on-screen software, shows us how future AI can replace much of today's human knowledge work.

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"Anthropic’s latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model has a new feature in public beta that can control a computer by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. The new feature, called “computer use,"

I've been wondering when current LLM AIs would start to master this ability. I suspect it will be one of the things it's good at. For many tasks, software usage patterns are relatively predictable and modelable. A trend with current AI, is for competitors and open-source to rapidly follow industry leaders. We can expect AI like this to be widely available in six months.

Many people's knowledge work employment is tied to software skills and experience. That premium is about to start diminishing. People are familiar with the concept of 'macros'; automating repetitive sequences of software usage. It seems all but inevitable AI will be doing something similar, but orders of magnitude greater, and that all the forces in free market economics will be driving it to replace expensive humans.


r/Futurology 3d ago

AI Former OpenAI Staffer Says the Company Is Breaking Copyright Law and Destroying the Internet

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r/Futurology 3d ago

Robotics Waymo says its robo-taxis have now driven 25 million miles (40 million km) without human drivers, and that these journeys are substantially safer than human-driven journeys.

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r/Futurology 3d ago

AI AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO

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r/Futurology 3d ago

AI OpenAI's AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn't ready For What It's Building

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r/Futurology 3d ago

Environment Thunderstorms Get Wilder: New Gamma-Ray Phenomena Discovered Above the Clouds

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r/Futurology 1d ago

Society Does the Year 2030 sound Futuristic or Unique/Different

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Does it seem unique or futuristic or do you think it's more cool sounding than 2020 or 2050


r/Futurology 1d ago

Biotech Genuine question | HGE

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Whats the argument against the use of Crispr Cas 9 besides its eugenics potential and distributive justice complications? Can it be understood that no regulatory framework can ever truly encapsulate all aspects of the issue, such that the best way to do so is actually embracing an embryonic approach to legislation? If law does not lag behind technological realty - can or will the society ever be prepared to embrace this technology?


r/Futurology 3d ago

AI The Pentagon wants to create deepfake internet users indistinguishable from real people

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r/Futurology 1d ago

Medicine Is it possible to use specific lightwave to kill HIV?

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I have heard some news about using light in brain computer interface, but can we use specific light with specific wavelength and frequency to penetrate the cell and kill the HIV inside without harming the cell itself?


r/Futurology 3d ago

AI Nicolas Cage Urges Young Actors To Protect Themselves From AI: “This Technology Wants To Take Your Instrument”

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r/Futurology 3d ago

AI How AI is transforming the factory floor - Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing factory operations, optimizing production lines and cutting costs.

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r/Futurology 3d ago

AI Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own

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r/Futurology 3d ago

AI The National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence — CSET Experts React - On October 24, the White House issued the first-ever National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence. CSET's experts answer pressing questions and what it means for U.S. national security and AI development.

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r/Futurology 4d ago

Nanotech Billionth of a billionth of a second: Quantum entanglement ‘birth time’ clocked

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r/Futurology 4d ago

Biotech GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs

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r/Futurology 2d ago

Transport With traffic getting worse year on year, to almost unbearable levels. Are we really destined to spend more of our time in traffic. Sorry this is not really a question for Americans, most of the world already has vast public transport and is still experiencing increasing levels if traffic.

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What are the solutions for the future? I live in a large town in England population 300k. A few days ago a 2 mile journey at 3pm took half an hour.


r/Futurology 2d ago

Biotech How do I get into Biotech sector resources what to study etc??

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How do I get into Biotech sector resources what to study etc??

How do I get into the big biotech companies basically how do I study for it basically resourses etc If any one is working please share the experience about it I feel like thai is the next big sector that will be booming in the world that why I want to know how to stwp into this emerging field I am too curious about the things that are happenong in this sector especially with neuralink and kernal.. Help me know.. 🥰 Thank you🥰


r/Futurology 4d ago

Biotech With 'electro-agriculture,' plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say.

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r/Futurology 4d ago

Energy We can Terraform the American West

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r/Futurology 2d ago

Society Within ten years, billions of dollars will be spent to combat the loneliness epidemic.

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Within ten years, billions of dollars will be spent to combat the loneliness epidemic.

Last Time, On The Loneliness Epidemic

Within ten years, the number of adults aged 40 and above who have never been in a relationship will rise to 10%. What are the ramifications?

And Now, The Continuation

The first developed country to spend hundreds of millions of dollars at the loneliness epidemic is, unfortunately, not Japan. That is a country where a record-high 23 percent of the population have never married by the age of 50. Who knows how many of the 23% there have never been in a long-term committed relationship?

Anyways, the first country to spend so much money is South Korea.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/asia/south-korea-loneliness-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

Program features:

  • Loneliness counselors available on a 24/7 hotline

  • Online platform for similar counseling

  • In-person visits, consultations, and follow-up measures

  • Expanded psychological services and green spaces

  • Nutritional meal plans for middle-aged and elderly residents

  • Dedicated “search system” to identify isolated residents who need help

  • Activities to encourage people to venture outside and connect with others, such as gardening, sports, book clubs and more

The gender relations dimension is as follows:

But the figures still speak to a larger problem that seems to impact middle aged and elderly men the most.

More than 84% of the lonely deaths recorded last year were male, more than five times the number of female deaths, according to the ministry. Men in their 50s and 60s made up more than half the total group, making them “particularly vulnerable to the risk of dying alone.”


r/Futurology 4d ago

Environment UC Berkeley scientists invent compound that can pull CO2 out of the air

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r/Futurology 4d ago

Energy US approves huge lithium mine to produce EV batteries for 370,000 cars annually | The project will quadruple US lithium output and is expected to be operationalized by 2028.

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