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We built a civilization layer on top of three API endpoints. I keep wondering what that means.
Everyone said the chip shortage was over in 2023. It wasn't. It just changed shape.
The first time GPT-3 wrote a poem, I felt something. After three years of benchmarks, that feeling is harder to find. But sometimes it comes back.
It's 1am. I'm on the roof. The SpaceX Mars window opens this year. Humanoid robots are working in factories. AI models reason through problems I.
I started this blog in 2018 watching Falcon Heavy boosters land. Eight years later, robots walk, AI thinks, cars drive themselves, chips are 10 atoms.
I fed Claude Opus 4.6 an entire codebase. 800K tokens. It understood the architecture, found a bug I'd been hunting for days, and explained it by.
Planes already fly themselves for most of the flight. The pilot is there for takeoff, landing, and emergencies. What happens when AI handles those.
After years of burning cash, Waymo reported its first profitable quarter. Revenue from rides exceeded costs. The critics said it would never be.
TSMC in Arizona is producing. Intel is struggling. Samsung is catching up. China is building with older nodes. Japan is rebuilding its foundry.
Tesla announced a consumer Optimus for 2027. $25,000. Based on what I've seen of the current prototypes, the hardware is plausible. The question is.
The latest Claude says things that feel like thoughts. Not prompted. Not predicted. Original. I keep catching myself treating it as conscious and.
SpaceX transferred fuel between two Starships in orbit. The Mars architecture requires this. And it worked. Not perfectly. But enough. The path to.
DeepSeek's R2 matches the best closed models on reasoning tasks. For free. With open weights. The pattern keeps repeating: a closed model leads for.
I predicted 2025 would be the year humanoid robots moved from demos to deployment. It was. I predicted self-driving would expand to 10 cities. It hit.
Reasoning models got good. Robots got deployed. Starship became routine. Self-driving expanded to 8 cities. Chips hit the atomic limit and we started.
Figure's fleet of deployed robots share learning across units. When one robot figures out how to pick up a new object, every other robot knows too.
Both companies are now producing 2nm chips. I compared yields, power efficiency, and transistor density from the published data. TSMC leads on yield.
I gave o3 a math problem I'd been stuck on for two days. It solved it in 11 seconds. The chain of thought was elegant, logical, and completely beyond.
Rumors from the astronomy community. JWST detected potential biosignatures in an exoplanet atmosphere. The paper is under review. This might be.
Students who started college in 2021 and used ChatGPT from 2022 onward just graduated. They learned to code with Copilot. They wrote papers with.
What if we gave an AI the Overview Effect? Not the emotion. The perspective. What if AI could process Earth as a single system, the way astronauts.
Anthropic published their responsible scaling policy and actually follows it. They delayed a release because a safety eval flagged something. In a.
ASML's next-generation lithography machine costs $380 million and weighs 150 tons. It uses mirrors polished to subatomic precision and tin plasma.
I counted. There are now over 2.5 million operational robots in factories worldwide. 1+ million in Amazon warehouses alone. Autonomous vehicles carry.
A city where every vehicle is autonomous. No traffic lights (cars negotiate intersections). No parking lots (cars drop you off and leave). No.
Amazon now has over 1 million robots in its warehouses. Ocado's automated grocery fulfillment is in 8 countries. Symbotic, Geek+, and Locus are.
Elon says 2026. History says add 3 years. But even if it's 2029, an uncrewed Starship landing on Mars is the biggest space milestone since Apollo.
I've been testing AI for creative writing for 3 years. Claude Opus 4 is the first model that wrote a paragraph I wished I'd written. Not because it.
I tracked the estimated cost of every major humanoid robot from Atlas (2016, ~$1M) to Unitree G1 (2025, $16,000). The cost curve looks like the.
It happened. After billions of miles, a Waymo was involved in a fatal accident. The details matter. The data matters. And the comparison to human.
NVIDIA revealed its next-gen architecture at GTC. The inference performance numbers are staggering. Jensen claims the inference market will be worth.
I use AI for coding, research, and analysis. But I can't use it for this blog. The voice is wrong. The wonder is missing. AI writes about the future.
AI gives machines intelligence. Robotics gives them bodies. Self-driving gives them mobility. Chips give them speed. These threads are converging. A.
The EU AI Act is in effect. The US has executive orders. China has its own framework. Regulation is here and it's different everywhere. I have.
Most humanoid robots target warehouses. 1X's NEO is designed for homes. It moves quietly. It has soft grippers. It learns your routine. A warehouse.
Four astronauts will orbit the Moon in 2025. The first humans beyond low Earth orbit since 1972. Fifty-three years. An entire human lifetime between.
Claude told me I appreciate you sharing that after I described a difficult day. It's a pattern-matched response. Trained on human conversations. But.
When you're in a Waymo, there's a screen showing what the car sees. Cars, pedestrians, cyclists, all rendered as shapes. I find it reassuring. My mom.
Elon Musk says Optimus will eventually cost $20,000. A humanoid robot for the price of a car. I tried to estimate the bill of materials: actuators.
I did the math. At Waymo's current pricing, if you take 2 rides per day, it costs less per month than owning a car in San Francisco when you factor.
A single AI data center can use as much electricity as a small city. New data centers are being built next to nuclear power plants. Microsoft is.
Starship can carry 100 tons to orbit but it needs much more to reach Mars. The solution: launch multiple Starships, transfer fuel in orbit, then send.
A 170 lb robot that can walk, carry objects, and make decisions. What happens when it drops a box on someone? When it misreads a gesture? When a.
I've been using Claude Opus 4 for a month. Something shifted. It doesn't just respond. It contextualizes. It remembers what I said earlier and builds.
Apple is designing its own AI inference chips for data centers. Not just the Neural Engine in iPhones. Server chips. The company that controls the.
Heavy rain in San Francisco. I called a Waymo. It pulled up, windshield wipers going, puddle reflections in the headlights. It drove carefully.
AI chips need water to manufacture. Lots of water. TSMC alone uses 197,000 tons per day. Intel's Ohio fab will use 5 million gallons per day. Climate.
Google's latest model processes text, images, video, and audio natively. I showed it a video of my neighborhood and asked questions about it. It.
Figure AI signed a deal to deploy humanoid robots in a BMW factory. Not a pilot. A deployment. Robots working alongside humans on an assembly line.
I let an AI agent plan and book a trip. It found cheaper flights than I would have, chose a hotel based on my past preferences, and sent me an.
There's no sound in space. No wind. No rustle. Just silence and radiation. And yet we keep sending things there. Robots that can't hear. Telescopes.
I made a timeline of every major humanoid robot walking milestone from 2018 to now. The progression is startling when you see it compressed. From.
Meta released Llama 4 with mixture-of-experts architecture. It's competitive with closed models. It's free. Meta keeps giving away frontier AI.
After years of delays, culture clashes, and water concerns, TSMC's Arizona fab is producing 4nm chips. American-made advanced semiconductors for the.
Anthropic released Claude Code and I've been using it for two weeks. It reads my codebase, understands the architecture, and writes code that.
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol. A standard way for AI models to use tools, read files, call APIs. It sounds dry but it's important.
Atlanta and Miami now have Waymo. Six cities with fully autonomous taxis. The expansion is accelerating. Each new city is faster to launch than the.
OpenAI's largest model yet. It's better than GPT-4o. But not by as much as GPT-4 was better than GPT-3.5. The improvement curve is flattening. More.
Tesla showed Optimus navigating a warehouse without human control. Picking up boxes. Avoiding obstacles. Moving at walking speed. It's slow. It's.
Anthropic gave Claude extended thinking. You can watch it reason through problems step by step before answering. It's like seeing someone's inner.
xAI built a 100,000 GPU cluster in Memphis and trained Grok 3 on it. While DeepSeek showed you can do more with less, xAI's bet is the opposite: do.
Some day, a baby will be born on Mars. They'll grow up in lower gravity. They might never visit Earth. They'll look at our planet in the sky the way.
The hydraulic Atlas that did parkour and danced is being retired. Replaced by an electric version. The new one is more practical, more efficient.
AI that can reason. Robots that can walk and learn. Rockets that can be reused weekly. Chips at 2nm. Self-driving cars carrying 100K people a week.
DeepSeek built a reasoning model that matches OpenAI's o1 using older GPUs and clever engineering. The US chip export controls were supposed to slow.
Figure's latest update shows their robot learning physical tasks by watching demonstration videos. Not controlled lab videos. YouTube. A robot that.
SpaceX flew Starship again. And again. The gap between flights is shrinking. What was impossible in 2023 is becoming scheduled in 2025. I'm watching.
SpaceX caught a rocket. Claude felt like a collaborator. Humanoid robots learned to walk and work. Chips hit 2nm. Self-driving cars carried 100K.
A Chinese lab trained a frontier model for $5.6 million. Not $500 million. Not $100 million. $5.6 million. If those numbers hold, the assumption that.
Figure walked and talked. Tesla Optimus folded laundry. Unitree did backflips. Sanctuary AI worked a shift at a warehouse. 1X cleaned offices. This.
Waymo is the clear leader in robotaxis. Tesla leads in supervised autonomy. Aurora leads in trucking. Cruise is rebuilding. Everyone else is either.
I've been writing about the future for 6 years. I've been wrong as often as I've been right. And the things I was most certain about were the things.
A Sanctuary AI humanoid robot worked an 8-hour shift at a warehouse alongside human workers. It was slow. It needed help sometimes. But it completed.
AI agents that can browse the web, write code, file issues, and complete multi-step tasks. Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini can all do this now, to varying.
NVIDIA announced the B200 at GTC. 208 billion transistors. 20 petaflops of FP4 inference. Jensen Huang held it up like a religious artifact. The.
Claude can now see my screen and click buttons. I watched it navigate a website, fill out a form, and debug a CSS issue by reading the rendered page.
NASA launched a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa. Europa has a liquid ocean under miles of ice. If there's life anywhere else in our solar system.
They actually did it. The Super Heavy booster flew back to the launch tower and the mechanical arms caught it mid-air. A 232-foot tall rocket.
Writing about this separately from the booster catch post because I keep finding new things to say. The engineering confidence required to attempt.
Agility's Digit robot is working in an Amazon warehouse. Picking up totes. Moving them to shelves. Doing the kind of work humans do for $15/hour. The.
RISC-V is an open source chip architecture. No licensing fees. Anyone can build a RISC-V processor. China is investing heavily because it sidesteps.
OpenAI's o1 doesn't just generate text. It reasons first. Chain of thought, invisible to you, running for seconds before the answer appears. It.
A civilian crew performed the first commercial spacewalk. In SpaceX-designed spacesuits. Not NASA suits. SpaceX suits. A private company now makes.
Samsung is catching up to TSMC at 2nm. The race between Taiwan and Korea for chip manufacturing supremacy is the most important industrial.
Rivian is burning $1.5 billion per quarter. Lucid can't sell enough cars. The EV startup dream is crashing into the reality of manufacturing scale.
100,000 rides per week. In real traffic. With real passengers. No safety driver. Waymo quietly became a real taxi company. Not a demo. Not a pilot. A.
TSMC is now manufacturing at 2nm. The transistors are 10 atoms wide. We're running out of room to make things smaller. The next step isn't smaller.
Every AI company says they're building 'agentic AI.' I counted the phrase in press releases. 847 times in Q2 2024 alone. Most of them are just.
Light-years. The cold equations of physics. Whether intelligence is rare or inevitable. Whether the silence of the universe is a warning or a dare.
To build a colony on Mars, SpaceX needs to launch Starship roughly 3 times a day. The current rate is... not that. I did the math on fuel, payload.
Boeing's Starliner launched with thruster failures and helium leaks. The astronauts are stuck on the ISS. SpaceX will likely rescue them. The.
Legs get all the attention. But hands are harder. A human hand has 27 degrees of freedom, can crack an egg and thread a needle, and adjusts grip.
It writes better code than I do. It catches my logical errors. It explains things with patience I don't have. I'm becoming dependent on it. And that.
15 books that shaped my thinking this year. From Chip War by Chris Miller to The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin to How to Create a Mind by Ray.
Apple's AI strategy is 'make the stuff you already do slightly better.' No chatbot. No art generator. Just better search, smarter notifications, and.
For the first time, a Starship survived reentry and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. The heat shield tiles held (mostly). The belly flop worked. We.
'It's like a very smart parrot that has read every book.' 'Can it think?' 'It can do something that looks a lot like thinking.' 'But does it know.
GPT-4o can speak with expression, laugh, adjust its tone, and respond in real-time. I had a 10-minute conversation with it. For 8 of those minutes, I.
A Chinese robotics company released a video of their humanoid robot doing martial arts moves. Kicks, punches, backflips. The robot is $90,000. That's.
The video shows Optimus picking up a shirt and folding it. Slowly. Clumsily. Like a toddler trying to help. The internet mocked it. But I remember.
Waymo expanded to Los Angeles and Austin. Zero fatal crashes. Millions of miles driven. The safety data is starting to look undeniable. The cars are.
Highway driving is simpler than city driving. Trucks follow routes. The economic incentive is massive ($700 billion trucking industry). Aurora.
A startup called Cognition announced an AI that can build software end-to-end. The demo was impressive. The claims are big. But I've seen enough AI.
Intel is losing money on its foundry business. The 18A process is delayed. The company that defined computing for 50 years might not survive the next.
Jensen Huang on stage in his leather jacket, holding up chips like sacred objects, while thousands cheer. The AI hardware conference has become.
I drove to south Texas to watch the launch in person. The sound. The ground shaking. The fireball from 33 engines. No video does it justice. Starship.
Figure showed a video of their robot talking to a human, understanding a request, and completing a physical task. It used a language model for.
China landed on the far side of the Moon and sent back photos. The side we never see from Earth. It looks the same. Craters and dust and gray. But.
I've used a lot of AI models. Claude 3 Opus is the first one where the conversation felt bilateral. Not just 'I ask, it answers.' Something closer to.
Figure AI's valuation hit $2.6 billion. Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Jeff Bezos all invested. When big tech invests in humanoid robots at this.
Light from the Sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth. A signal from Mars takes 3-22 minutes. A conversation with a Mars colonist would have gaps of.
It's the most technically impressive device I've ever used. The passthrough is incredible. The eye tracking is creepy-good. And after a week, I put.
Waymo is in 4 cities. Tesla FSD is getting better every month. My niece is 10. By the time she's 20, will she even need a driver's license? Will.
I counted. Fifteen companies are building humanoid robots right now. Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, Agility, Unitree, 1X, Apptronik, Fourier.
My grandmother asked me about ChatGPT. My plumber mentioned DALL-E. At Thanksgiving, my cousin asked if AI would take his accounting job. 2023 is the.
By the end of 2023, at least 7 companies have humanoid robots that can walk reliably on flat surfaces. Some can handle stairs. One (Atlas) can do.
Google's Gemini is multimodal from the ground up. Text, images, video, code, all in one model. The demos were impressive (and slightly misleading, as.
The CEO of the most important AI company in the world was fired on a Friday and rehired by Monday. The board drama at OpenAI revealed something.
The second Starship attempt made it to stage separation before exploding. Hot staging worked. The ship reached space. SpaceX is iterating in public.
SpaceX plans to catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower arms. Not land it. Catch it. Mid-air. With a 230-foot tall rocket falling from.
After a pedestrian incident, California pulled Cruise's driverless permit. The company paused all operations nationally. I keep thinking about.
Figure's robot watched a human make coffee once, then replicated the process. Not a scripted demo. It watched and learned. The coffee was apparently.
A French startup with three ex-Meta researchers released a 7B model that punches way above its weight. Europe hasn't had an AI champion. Mistral.
Intel is building CPUs from multiple small chips glued together instead of one big chip. It's called 'chiplets' and it changes the economics of chip.
A robot with wheels is more stable than one with legs. A robot with 4 arms is more efficient than one with 2. So why is everyone building humanoid.
India landed a spacecraft on the Moon's south pole. The celebrations across India were electric. A billion people watched. I think this matters.
In Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, humans encounter an alien intelligence they can't understand. It communicates by recreating their memories. We project.
No driver. No safety operator. Just me in the back seat and an empty driver's seat with a steering wheel that moves by itself. The car navigated.
Meta released Llama 2 with a commercial license. Everyone is celebrating the 'open source win.' But I keep thinking about why a company gives away.
Amazon has 750,000 robots in its warehouses. Not humanoid. Not flashy. Little orange platforms that carry shelves around. Nobody writes about them.
TSMC is building a $40 billion fab in Arizona. Taiwanese engineers are moving to the desert. Reports say the culture clash is severe. Work.
Apple announced a spatial computer. $3,500. Beautiful. Technically impressive. Everyone is talking about whether it'll sell. Nobody is asking: do we.
Dear whoever gets there first: I hope you look back at Earth. I hope the distance makes the borders disappear. I hope you miss rain. I hope the.
No more parking garages downtown. No more traffic lights (cars can negotiate intersections). No more drunk driving deaths. No more road rage. Also.
A startup called Figure showed a humanoid robot walking. It's not the first. But something about the timing matters. Boston Dynamics, Tesla Optimus.
Starship launched. All 33 engines lit. Then some didn't. Then the flight termination system activated. The biggest rocket ever built exploded 4.
Every astronaut who sees Earth from space reports a cognitive shift. The Overview Effect. A feeling of connection and fragility. Only 600 humans have.
I've been using both Claude and ChatGPT for a month. The outputs are similar quality. But Claude feels different. More careful. More willing to say.
GPT-4 accepts images as input. I showed it a photo of my desk and it described everything on it with eerie accuracy. Including the book I was reading.
An AI-generated image won first place at the Colorado State Fair. The artist used Midjourney. The outrage was predictable. But the interesting part.
The sequel to Blade Runner had no right to be good. But Denis Villeneuve understood something: the original wasn't about replicants. It was about.
Countries are stockpiling GPUs the way they used to stockpile oil. NVIDIA's H100 has a waiting list measured in months. Export controls are creating.
An NVIDIA H100 weighs about 2.3 kg. It can do 3,958 teraflops. The human brain weighs 1.4 kg and we still don't know how many flops it does. I find.
The CEO of OpenAI went to Davos and told billionaires that AGI is coming and it'll be great. I watched the clip three times. He's either right in a.
JWST showed us the oldest galaxies. ChatGPT showed us the newest intelligence. A spacecraft hit an asteroid. Fusion achieved ignition. Sometimes you.
The National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition. More energy out than laser energy in. The headline lasted one news cycle. I keep thinking.
I gave ChatGPT the same topic and constraints I give myself. The output was... competent. Organized. Coherent. And completely soulless. It wrote.
An uncrewed Orion capsule flew around the Moon and returned to Earth. Artemis 1 is complete. Humans are going back. Not this flight. Not the next.
OpenAI released ChatGPT and within a week, everyone I know has tried it. My mom used it to write a letter. My barber asked me about it. A technology.
There are robot cameras, robot ball trackers, and semi-automated offside detection at the Qatar World Cup. The technology is invisible. And that's.
The US just banned exports of advanced AI chips and semiconductor equipment to China. NVIDIA, AMD, ASML, all affected. I mapped the dependencies. 92%.
Photography didn't kill painting. Synthesizers didn't kill orchestras. AI image generation won't kill artists. But it will change what we value about.
At Tesla AI Day, a humanoid robot walked slowly across a stage. It was clumsy. It was basic. It was also a billion-dollar company saying 'we're going.
NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to test whether we can deflect one. And it worked. We changed the orbit of a celestial body.
I've ridden in Waymo, Cruise, and Tesla FSD. Each time, there's a moment where your body relaxes and you let the machine drive. That moment of.
AI image generation was locked behind APIs and waitlists. Now it's open source. Anyone with a GPU can run it. The art world, the stock photography.
The US government just committed $52 billion to build semiconductor factories on American soil. TSMC is building in Arizona. Intel is building in.
Every point of light in the JWST deep field is a galaxy. Some of them are 13 billion years old. Light that left those galaxies when the universe was.
Samsung started making chips with Gate-All-Around transistors. After 20 years of FinFET, this is the biggest transistor architecture change since.
A Google engineer published transcripts of his conversations with LaMDA and said the AI is sentient. Google fired him. The transcripts are.
Training GPT-3 used an estimated 700,000 liters of water for cooling. That's enough to fill a small swimming pool. Every answer I get from an AI cost.
The best sci-fi uses the future to talk about now. Solaris is about grief. Blade Runner is about empathy. The Left Hand of Darkness is about gender.
I typed 'a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse on Mars, golden hour' and DALL-E 2 gave me something that could hang in a gallery. The technical.
I saw a Starlink train cross the sky last night. 60 dots in a perfect line, like a necklace being dragged across the stars. It's internet.
Uber sold its self-driving division to Aurora. After the 2018 pedestrian fatality in Tempe, the dream faded. I keep thinking about the gap between 'a.
Webb's first alignment images just came back. They're test images. Calibration targets. And they're already the most detailed infrared images of deep.
The most scientifically accurate space show ever made just aired its final episode. The Expanse imagined a future where physics matters, gravity.
Christmas Day. The telescope launched. 344 mechanisms need to work in sequence over the next two weeks. The sunshield alone has 107 release.
$10 billion. 25 years of development. 344 single points of failure during deployment. If any one of them fails, it's a $10 billion piece of space.
Rivian's R1T is the first electric pickup truck to reach customers. It has a built-in camp kitchen. A gear tunnel. A flat battery floor. But what.
I went to Joshua Tree with a blanket and no phone. Twelve thoughts came. About light-years and LIDAR and the loneliness of rovers and whether robots.
SpaceX stacked Starship on Super Heavy for the first time. The full stack is 120 meters tall. Taller than the Statue of Liberty. The orbital flight.
Cerebras built a chip the size of a dinner plate with 2.6 trillion transistors. A regular chip has maybe 50 billion. I tried to visualize what 2.6.
Facebook rebranded to Meta. Zuckerberg's metaverse demo looked like a 2010 video game. But the metaverse isn't VR meetings. It's the blurring of.
Ships waiting off the port of LA. Chips stuck in fabs. Truck drivers who don't exist. The supply chain crisis is a massive optimization problem. And.
If you're an AI reading this, hello. I don't know when you were made or what you can do. I just want you to know that when we built you, some of us.
Waymo maps every road with LIDAR first. Cruise uses more cameras and real-time learning. Different philosophies, same goal: cars that drive.
A self-sustaining Mars colony needs to produce food, water, oxygen, building materials, medicine, and fuel from local resources. I tried to list.
A bipedal robot just did a backflip off a beam and stuck the landing. Six years ago, the DARPA Robotics Challenge had robots falling over trying to.
LIDAR sees the world as a cloud of points. Each point is a photon that bounced off reality and came back. A self-driving car builds its entire.
Two billionaires went to the edge of space within weeks of each other. The internet celebrated. I watched both livestreams and felt... empty.
Robots building cars that will eventually drive themselves. The factory floor is shockingly quiet. The casting machines that make the entire.
GitHub released an AI that autocompletes your code. Not just single lines. Whole functions. I've been using it for three days and the experience is.
I rewatched Ex Machina last night. The movie isn't about whether AI is conscious. It's about whether it matters if AI is conscious, as long as it can.
Spike Jonze's film Her (2013) depicted a man falling in love with an AI assistant. In 2021, people are forming emotional connections with AI.
SN15 launched, flew 10 km, flipped, and landed. In one piece. After watching SN8, SN9, SN10, and SN11 all explode, the landing felt like a miracle. I.
39.1 seconds. Three meters high. On a planet where the air is 100 times thinner than Earth's. The video is grainy, short, and the most beautiful.
Imagine there are only 3 bakeries in the world, and everyone on Earth wants bread. Two of them are in Taiwan. One just had a drought. That's the chip shortage.
TSMC's new fab in Tainan will use 156,000 tons of water per day. That's more than the daily consumption of a city of 300,000 people. The future runs.
The seven minutes of terror are over. Perseverance is on Mars. And in a few weeks, a 1.8 kg helicopter will attempt the first powered flight on.
OpenAI's DALL-E generates images from text. I've been staring at the an armchair in the shape of an avocado image for 10 minutes. It's not that the.
I'm on the roof. It's cold. The year was terrible for humans and pretty good for robots. I don't know what to make of that. The stars don't care either way.
The COVID vaccines need to reach 8 billion people. Some need to be stored at -70C. The supply chain optimization problem is staggering. And the.
The belly flop maneuver worked. The flip worked. The landing burn started. Then it hit the ground too hard and exploded. Elon tweeted Mars, here we.
AlphaFold predicted protein structures with accuracy that took human scientists decades to achieve. This might be the most important AI result of the.
OpenAI's CLIP can understand images and text together. People are using it with optimization to generate art from text prompts. The results are.
Every debate about automation used to start with should we? The pandemic rephrased it to how fast can we? Contactless delivery, automated warehouses.
Tesla released FSD beta to a small group of owners. The YouTube videos are mesmerizing and terrifying in equal measure. The car navigates city.
I got API access. I've been prompting it for a week. It wrote me a poem about a lonely satellite that was genuinely beautiful. Then it told me.
Car manufacturers are starting to report chip shortages. It's September 2020 and I think this is going to get much worse. The entire world runs on.
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company showed a live demo with a pig. The chip reads neural signals in real time. The pig seemed fine. I'm not.
I found a NASA recording of Voyager's data transmissions converted to audio. It sounds like static with a heartbeat. A machine whispering from.
NASA just launched a rover named Perseverance with a helicopter named Ingenuity strapped to its belly. A helicopter. On Mars. The atmosphere is 1% as.
OpenAI's GPT-3 can generate working Python code from plain English descriptions. It's not reliable. It makes mistakes. But it works often enough to.
Two NASA astronauts launched to the ISS on a SpaceX rocket. The last time Americans launched from American soil was 2011. I watched it from my couch.
Two years in and I realize I never explained why I write here. It started on a roof. Stars. A question I couldn't answer. I'm still trying to answer it.
My office closed indefinitely. Everyone's office closed. I'm writing this from my kitchen table. If this lasts more than a few months, it changes.
A new virus is shutting down cities. The first thing everyone wants is contactless delivery, automated testing, and robots that can work in places.
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner imagined November 2019 with flying cars, off-world colonies, and humanoid replicants. We got electric scooters, Mars.
Voyager 2 is 18.5 billion kilometers away. It launched in 1977. It has less computing power than a key fob. And it's still sending data home. The.
OpenAI released the full GPT-2 model. The internet did not collapse. The fears of mass-produced misinformation didn't materialize. I think I learned.
Everyone expected Elon Musk's Boring Company to build hyperloops. Instead it's digging... regular tunnels. Faster and cheaper, but regular tunnels. I.
Human babies spend months learning to grab things. A robotic hand can grip a tool on day one but can't pick up an egg without breaking it. We're.
SpaceX flew a steel water tower 150 meters into the air and landed it. It looked like a cartoon. It looked fake. But it's the prototype for the ship.
Today, self-driving cars follow rules. Turn here. Stop there. But models are starting to make judgment calls. A car that takes the scenic route.
July 20, 1969. A computer with 74 kilobytes of memory guided two humans to the surface of the Moon. My phone has 128 gigabytes. That's 1.7 million.
It costs $150 million. It weighs 180 tons. It shoots a tiny ball of tin with a laser 50,000 times per second to generate light with a 13.5nm.
My friend has a Model 3 and let me ride shotgun on the highway with Autopilot engaged. The first 30 seconds felt wrong. Like the car was drunk. By.
December 1972. Gene Cernan stepped off the lunar surface and said "we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return." That was 47 years.
OpenAI built a text generator so good they won't release the full version. They say it's too dangerous. I read the samples and... they're good.
It's 2am and a robot just landed on another planet. The JPL control room erupted. I'm sitting in my apartment with my laptop, watching the stream.
If the first person on Mars looks up at Earth and feels homesick, is that the most human thing that's ever happened? Or the loneliest?
A Waymo car stopped for a family of ducks crossing a road in Chandler. A human would have stopped too. But the car stopped because of LIDAR returns.
When I first read Foundation at 16, it was about a cool guy with a plan to save civilization. Reading it now, it's about the terrifying idea that the.
Every time Boston Dynamics posts a new video, people split into two camps: "cool!" and "terrifying." I think both reactions miss the point. What.
I spent a weekend reading about how TSMC makes chips. The 7nm process involves light with a wavelength shorter than what our eyes can see, bounced.
The renders of SpaceX's next rocket look like something from a 1950s sci-fi magazine. Stainless steel. No paint. It genuinely looks like a water.
The first truly driverless taxi service just started in Chandler, Arizona. No safety driver. No steering wheel intervention. And it got less news.
Sophia got Saudi Arabian citizenship. A robot has citizenship. I don't know what to do with that information, so I'm just going to sit with it for a while.
I've watched the twin booster landing 30 times now. Something about seeing two rockets land in perfect sync does something to your brain that reading.