IEEE Spectrum August 2023

Most recent stories in IEEE Spectrum August 2023

• #GPT-4 and other large language models has given some #AI experts pause

  

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  The AI Apocalypse: A Scorecard

  ieee.org - Eliza Strickland

  What should we make of OpenAI’s GPT-4, anyway? Is the large language model a major step on the way to an artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the …

• One persnickety problem is posed by the cable-abrading effect of contact with moon dust, which is as sharp-edged as shattered glass.

  

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  How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon

  ieee.org - John Landreneau

  The early forays to the moon employed throwaway technologies, designed to function during the two-week period of lunar daylight, then to perish in …

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  Can Neural Stimulation Zap Addiction?

  ieee.org - Elie Dolgin

  On a rainy Thursday afternoon earlier this year, a neuroscientist named Vaughn Steele placed a figure-eight-shaped wand over a man’s scalp and began …

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems is sourcing 10,000 kilometers of high-temperature superconducting tape to build its fusion reactor design.

  

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  This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

  ieee.org - Tom Clynes

  On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills. Brandon Sorbom, the scientific …

• Where was the lithium-ion battery really invented? Was it at Exxon, which briefly commercialized an early coin cell then washed its hands of the technology? At the University of Oxford, which declined to pursue a patent? At Sony, needing a small powerful rechargeable for its Handicam? Or at one of the other companies in between whose researchers grabbed, then dropped, the technology.

  

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  Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

  ieee.org - Charles J. Murray

  Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. It’s used in billions of laptops, cellphones, power …

• With a keen eye on #COVID, machine learning's scrutiny highlights secondary pneumonia as a real COVID-19 villain lurking in the ICU—not nearly as much, as was once hypothesized, the #CytokineStorm. #AI #ICURevelations

  

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  Machine Learning Turns Up COVID Surprise

  ieee.org - Greg Uyeno

  A hospital visit can be boiled down to an initial ailment and an outcome. But health records tell a different story, full of doctors’ notes and …