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The newest "climate heroes" are extremely large mammals.
Researchers who reintroduced a herd of bison to Romania a decade ago found that the 170 bovines are taking 54,000 tons of carbon out of the atmosphere every year.
That's the equivalent to taking a particularly beefy number of cars off the road, and 10 times more than the region was capturing before their arrival.
It's a surprising finding to some degree, given cows get such a bad rap for their methane belching. But in the wild, it's a different story.
The Romanian bison, researchers say, are excellent stewards of the grassland and forest ecosystems that naturally keep carbon from being released.
And they could become a key ingredient toward fighting climate change.
For more on these bison, go to the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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Looks like it was "Her" after all.
Amid the snowballing crisis roiling OpenAI over the Scarlett Johansson-resembling voice for newly released ChatGPT 4o, the actress dropped a stunning statement: The company previously asked to use her voice — and she declined.
Johansson said she rebuffed the requests months ago, only for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to contact her agent again last week asking the star to reconsider.
Before they "could connect," she said, the new chatbot was launched, with a voice so strongly resembling Johansson's that many people could not tell them apart.
OpenAI denied it used Johansson's voice but said it had paused the voice option "out of respect" to her.
Go to the link in our bio for more on this explosive story. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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Arrakis, meet Earth.
Engineers attempted to create a real-life version of the moisture-trapping suits worn by characters in "Dune" — and they succeeded.
The scientists managed to attract moisture in the trapped air with a thermoelectric cooler, then routed it to a drinking bladder with a water filter.
It's very much a short-term solution, but it's impressive work given scientists built the suit in a single day.
And how did that water taste?
"Warm!" according to the cosplaying Fremen. "Just like water!"
For more on this contraption, click the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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The AI appears to be getting more intelligent.
Researchers who conducted a Turing test say more than 50 percent of people who had a five-minute, text-based conversation with OpenAI's GPT-4 believed they were communicating with a human.
It's one of the first documented cases of a chatbot passing the Turing test — a thought experiment conceived in the 1950s in which people communicate with a human or a bot and attempt to identify who or what was on the other side.
The researchers' paper remains under review, but it has drawn praise from industry figures and stands apart from previous claims.
Almost as impressively: An even 50 percent of people confused GPT-3.5 for a human.
For more on the Turing test, go to the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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It's time to go rafting, Martian style.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is continuing down a rocky ridge that is believed to have been a raging river billions of years ago.
Scientists decided to pursue the Gediz Vallis option over exploring other portions of the planet.
It's a natural next step for Curiosity, which has already highlighted evidence suggesting Mars was once teeming with roaring rivers — and that they may have hosted ancient life.
Click the link in our bio for more on NASA's Mars mission. | Futurism by ASM Channels
What a shame, all that fame.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is rueing the consequences of his high profile, saying he can’t so much as have a meal out without being constantly recognized.
It’s an odd tune to sing, given how widely known Altman has chosen to make himself in recent years — from his bold proclamations about AI’s risk to trying to raise $7 trillion for a new venture to comparing OpenAI’s new chatbot to the titular character of “Her.”
Or going on a major podcast to talk about how annoying fame is.
“It’s a strangely isolating way to live,” he said.
To read more of Altman’s comments, go to the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
Daft Punk's "Robot Rock" blasted, and out came ... the robot commencement speaker.
That's what greeted graduating students at D'Youville University, who were fêted with wise words from an AI-powered bot that coldly regurgitated a bunch of stuff real humans have said at commencement ceremonies for decades.
"Congratulations to all the graduates," the bot, dubbed Sophia, intoned.
The university alleged it wasn't a cost-cutting move but a way to showcase the importance and potential of technology.
It wasn't a message well-received by many critics.
As one pointed out, these same students lost out on high school graduations in the pandemic summer of 2020. Now they're exiting college in similarly unsatisfactory fashion.
For more on the AI commencement, go to the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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There's a chance — some chance, at least — that we might find evidence of extraterrestrials in the stars.
Astronomers have identified seven star systems that could potentially host a Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure that an alien civilization could build around a star or black hole.
By doing so, said civilization could capture power in the form of radiation.
To be clear, this is an entirely theoretical idea. But scientists suspect it is still, at the very least, possible.
And if these megastructures do exist, we should be able to see them because of their infrared radiation.
To learn more about Dyson spheres, click the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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What would you do if you found a piece of space junk on your property?
If you're a good Canadian, you'd sell it and put the proceeds toward a hockey rink in your hometown.
That's exactly what Barry Sawchuk, who was weeding his farm in Saskatchewan when he found an 88-pound hunk of stuff, intends to do.
Fortunately, the debris, which Sawchuk originally believed was garbage before realizing what he had on his hands, landed in an empty field and not in a big city.
"It's really just luck," a professor said.
For more on this most Canadian of stories, click the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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Yikes!
NASA's Office of Inspector General has penned an alarming report highlighting how Artemis I's Orion capsule suffered serious damage.
Without fixes, the report says, the Artemis II mission could be in jeopardy.
Engineers found extensive cracks in Orion's heat shield across more than 100 locations, plus issues with power distribution and separation bolts. And pieces that broke off turned into a trail of debris.
"Should the same issue occur on future Artemis missions," the report says, "it could lead to the loss of the vehicle or crew."
For more on these problems, go to the link in our bio. | Futurism by ASM Channels
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