# Wtf/wtg science **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [January 1, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672 "2021-01-01T15:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Kenny](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/kenny/32/53_2.png) [@Kenny](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Kenny)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/122 "2022-08-17T19:52:00Z")
> **[This 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the...](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-designed-a-motor-that-could-potentially-transform-the-electric-car-industry-180980550/)** > > Robert Sansone's research could pave the way for the sustainable manufacturing of electric vehicles that do not require rare-earth magnets ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/123 "2022-08-18T00:32:58Z")
> [@ArthurItas](#): > > Spinlaunch is planning to launch smaller satellites into low earth orbit using kinetic energy. It would use a fraction of the fuel of rockets and cost much less. They are already launching suborbital payloads successfully, with video of that here: [https://www.spinlaunch.com/suborbital](https://www.spinlaunch.com/suborbital) That website is really annoying to navigate. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/124 "2022-08-26T15:00:22Z")
The Artemis 1 launch window will begin @ 8:30 AM ET, Monday morning (8/29) Be there or be square! ---
**Author:** ![YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/yankeetripper/32/946_2.png) [@YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/u/YankeeTripper)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/125 "2022-08-29T15:48:05Z")
> **[Scientists Grow “Synthetic” Embryo With Brain and Beating Heart – Without...](https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-grow-synthetic-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-without-eggs-or-sperm/)** WTG or WTF? Maybe a bit of both. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/126 "2022-09-01T13:49:30Z")
Somebody won 1st prize at the Chicago State Fair using AI generated art. (They used Midjourney, which is comparable to Dall-E.) ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/f/1f3cfbd5c4fb237ab153f4f13aa40ff6dc86c969.jpeg) There’s some questions about whether it was cheating etc. but the basic point remains, that Humans are once again playing 2nd fiddle. ---
**Author:** ![John.S.Mill](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/john.s.mill/32/9771_2.png) [@John.S.Mill](https://community.goactuary.com/u/John.S.Mill)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/127 "2022-09-01T14:12:53Z")
human intelligence is replicable, as is human creativity. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/128 "2022-10-05T21:13:46Z")
2022 continues to be the year that we give birth to skynet… –By making matrix multiplication into a sort of pretend board game, Google was able to use AlphaZero to improve (a little) on a bunch of best algorithms, including 4x4 matrices. In a small way, I think it’s sort of the first time that we use AI to improve AI. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4) –Meta has one-upped Dall-e by going for text-to-video. > **[Meta's 'Make-A-Scene' AI blends human and computer imagination into...](https://www.engadget.com/metas-make-a-scene-ai-algorithmic-art-130058753.html)** > > On Tuesday, Meta revealed that it has developed an AI image generation engine, dubbed "Make-A-Scene", that it hopes will lead to immersive worlds in the Metaverse and the emergence of digital high art. –Meta also published a paper outlining “autonomous machine intelligence”. Yikes. [https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf) ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/129 "2022-10-10T18:06:19Z")
Der comming for our jerbs! > **[New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps like a human](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/new-ai-assistant-can-browse-search-and-use-web-apps-like-a-human/)** > > Adept's ACT-1 has learned how to automate complex UI tasks in web apps using an AI model. [https://twitter.com/i/status/1570144641630228488](https://twitter.com/i/status/1570144641630228488) ---
**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/130 "2022-10-10T18:30:45Z")
But can they GoA like a human!? ---
**Author:** ![CuriousGeorge](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/curiousgeorge/32/28457_2.png) [@CuriousGeorge](https://community.goactuary.com/u/CuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/131 "2022-10-11T16:07:10Z")
They can probably GoA like a LincolnElectric anyway. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/132 "2022-10-11T16:48:28Z")
> [@NormalDan](#): > > But can they GoA like a human!? Honestly I’m not sure. Folks used GPT-3 to screw around on Reddit with mixed success. Having talked to GPT-3 myself, I can tell you it eventually becomes obvious that there’s something wrong with it. But in the context of an internet forum, I don’t know. It’s definitely able to regurgitate anecdotes and arguments and logic, even if it doesn’t _quite_ think. But that’s 2020. Since then, Google, OpenAI, Meta, etc. have made a dozen or so bigger and better chat-bots, and have not released them. (the downside is so much more obvious than the upside.) So I have no idea how convincing the new ones are. ---
**Author:** ![Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/mathman/32/14042_2.png) [@Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Mathman)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/133 "2022-10-11T17:42:56Z")
I can barely GoA like a human some days. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/134 "2022-10-12T13:36:02Z")
Some interesting research on blindness > **[Scientists 'Blown Away' by New Treatment Restoring Sight to Blind Mice](https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-blown-away-by-new-treatment-restoring-sight-to-blind-mice)** > > The brain's ability to adapt and rewire itself throughout life continues to surprise neuroscientists. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/135 "2022-10-12T13:52:18Z")
Imagine your job was injecting stuff into mouse eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/mathman/32/14042_2.png) [@Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Mathman)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/136 "2022-10-12T14:58:11Z")
A lot of folks would choose that over actuarializing. ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/deeppurple/32/1551_2.png) [@DeepPurple](https://community.goactuary.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/137 "2022-10-12T15:04:00Z")
![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/a/4a2855fbb0cce02c132ccd643a79eb020e16ce94.png) ---
**Author:** ![magillaG](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@magillaG](https://community.goactuary.com/u/magillaG)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/138 "2022-10-12T15:11:58Z")
> [@Mathman](#): > > A lot of folks would choose that over actuarializing Do you think most of those are people who have not actually given a mouse-eye injection yet? ---
**Author:** ![Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/mathman/32/14042_2.png) [@Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Mathman)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/139 "2022-10-12T15:19:14Z")
I suspect yes, and would also speculate that most of these people haven’t actuarialized, either. The population of people who have done both has to be vanishingly small. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/140 "2022-10-12T15:48:01Z")
was it just one blind mouse, or did they restore sight to all 3? thinking the song may need a new verse ---
**Author:** ![YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/yankeetripper/32/946_2.png) [@YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/u/YankeeTripper)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672/141 "2022-10-12T16:00:25Z")
We’re going to need a Venn diagram here. [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672.md?page=6) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wtf-wtg-science/1672.md?page=8)