OpenAI has claimed to have taken a "significant step" towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the launch of its latest upgrade to ChatGPT, but has admitted there are still "many things" missing in its quest to create a system able to do humans' jobs. The startup said its GPT-5 model, the underlying technology that will power its breakthrough AI chatbot, represents a big upgrade on its predecessors in areas such as coding and creative writing – and is also a lot less sycophantic. It said the upgrade was being made available to all of ChatGPT's 700 million weekly users immediately. Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, called the model a "significant step forward" to achieving the theoretical state of AGI, which the startup defines as a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work – or, in other words, can do their jobs. However, Altman admitted GPT-5 had not reached that goal yet.

Heritage Foundation senior fellow Michael Pillsbury weighs in on U.S.-China relations and Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to Beijing on'Fox News Tonight.' China has revealed plans to develop a futuristic warship that would include breakthrough technologies that would bring "science fiction to the real world," according to a report. "It will completely overturn the combat formation of naval fleets that has been in place for over a hundred years," People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Rear Adm. Ma Weiming said in a peer-reviewed paper, the South Morning China Post reported. The Chinese supership would look to adopt new technology such as rail guns, rocket launchers, laser weapons and high-powered microwaves. The technology would "cleverly and effectively transform the energy from the ship's power source – nuclear energy – into the electromagnetic energy needed to power" the weapons, Ma wrote.

Tesla (TSLA) will raise the price of its top-end driver assistance system – Full Self-Driving (FSD) – according to a tweet from CEO Elon Musk. Musk said in a tweet on Sunday, "After wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th." After wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th. Current price will be honored for orders made before Sept 5th, but delivered later. The cost of the FSD will increase $3,000 on Sept. 5, up from its previous $12,000 price tag.

Designing drugs that target proteins requires knowing the three-dimensional (3D) shape of the target protein and creating a drug whose shape binds to that target protein. As of June 2021, research had only determined the shape of one-third of human proteins. Then, in July 2021, two groups used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the shape of nearly every human protein from nucleic acid sequences. The same AI software that predicted the shape of proteins in the 2021 experiments has now been used to design small strings of 50 to 65 amino acids ("mini-antibodies") with 3D shapes that were predicted to bind to 13 important human target proteins: growth factors that are important in stimulating the growth of cancers and components of several infectious agents, including influenza and SARS-CoV-2. The mini-antibodies were shown to bind to their targets and to work as expected--for example, a mini-antibody designed to bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein protected mice from infection.

I explain Artificial Intelligence terms and news to non-experts. We've all heard about GPT-3 and have somewhat of a clear idea of its capabilities. You've most certainly seen some applications born strictly due to this model, some of which I covered in a previous video about the model. GPT-3 is a model developed by OpenAI that you can access through a paid API but have no access to the model itself. What makes GPT-3 so strong is both its architecture and size.

I explain Artificial Intelligence terms and news to non-experts. Have you ever dreamed of taking the style of a picture, like this cool TikTok drawing style on the left, and applying it to a new picture of your choice? Well, I did, and it has never been easier to do. In fact, you can even achieve that from only text and can try it right now with this new method and their Google Colab notebook available for everyone (see references). Simply take a picture of the style you want to copy, enter the text you want to generate, and this algorithm will generate a new picture out of it!

Raspberry Pi is a capable little machine, but if you're interested in developing your own embedded machine-learning applications, training custom models on the platform has historically been tricky due to the Pi's limited processing power. But things have just taken a big step forward. Yesterday, Edge Impulse, the cloud-based development platform for machine learning on edge devices, announced its foray into embedded Linux with full, official support for the Raspberry Pi 4. As a result, users can now upload data and train their own custom machine-learning algorithms in the cloud, and then deploy them back to their Raspberry Pi. SEE: C programming language: How it became the foundation for everything, and what's next (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Four new machine-learning software development kits (SDKs) for Raspberry Pi are available week, including C, Go, Node.js and Python, allowing users to program their own custom applications for inferencing. Support for object detection has also been added, meaning Raspberry Pi owners can use camera data captured on their device to train their own custom object detection algorithms, instead of having to rely on'stock' classification models.

More than six years after the core meltdowns triggered by March 2011 mega-quake and tsunami, Tokyo Electric said Saturday that the robot probing reactor 3 at the defunct Fukushima No. 1 power plant had likely spotted fuel debris for the first time at the bottom of its primary containment vessel. Some of the debris looks like rocks and sand, and was accompanied by scaffolding and other objects from the reactor that had formed a pile about a meter high. On Friday, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. announced that the same robot had found what appeared to be melted fuel at the bottom of the pressure vessel, which holds the core. On Saturday, images released by the utility showed black, lava-like objects discovered by the so-called mini sunfish robot. "It's natural to assume that the debris melted and dropped," said a Tepco official who briefed reporters.

Facebook has snapped up a facial recognition startup to help it win the war it waged against Snapchat. The social network has acquired FacioMetrics, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff that developed a few face detection apps, including one that can recognize seven different emotions in human faces. Those applications are no longer available in any app store. A Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company plans to use the startup's technology to enhance its Snapchat-like AR filters for Facebook videos and Live broadcasts. It could lead to new AR masks, new special effects and even new ways to trigger their animations.