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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

From an architectural standpoint, it is the part of the building that people will see, so its aesthetic traits are important. A close-up of THOR, a computer used primarily for machine learning tasks. metre-tall cyber physical scaled building model, which was tested at a large NSF-sponsored tunnel facility called the Wall of Wind.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

And for example the concept of “temperature” is there because exponential distributions familiar from statistical physics happen to be being used, but there’s no “physical” connection—at least so far as we know.) In this particular case, we can use known laws of physics to work it out.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

(For about three centuries it seemed as if mathematical equations were the ultimate way to describe the natural world—but in the past few decades , and particularly poignantly with our recent Physics Project , it’s become clear that simple programs are in general a more powerful approach.) How does all this relate to technology?

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