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Mostly, I am just glad that all the LK-99 posts are drowning out the "AI" news for a few days.
by anyoneamous 3y ago
Mostly, I am just glad that all the LK-99 posts are drowning out the "AI" news for a few days.
- mmh0000 3y agoBut fear the news if it is discovered that LK-99 increases AI performance.
- ssijak 3y agoImagine NVIDIA superconducting chips made for AI
- pjmorris 3y agoOr the news that ChatGPT is attempting an LK-99 replication.
- daveguy 3y agoYes. Using the well known ChatGPT manufacturing capabilities.
- ajuc 3y agoI.e. natural language injection when somebody from a capable lab uses ChatGPT to write an e-mail :)
- quux 3y agoSoon: The unrestricted GPT-4 model began by hiring a task rabbit to order lead oxide, lead sulfate, elemental copper, phosphorus, and a vacuum-evacuated quartz oven...
- bugglebeetle 3y agoYou mean emailing a for-profit materials science lab somewhere, like it did when it had that task rabbit solve a CAPTCHA for it?
- bhouston 3y agoI'm sure Elon also has SpaceX or something trying to replicate it as well. He sort of has to jump on each new trend anyhow. In a serious note, superconductors are likely useful in electric magnetic motors and probably in high power electronics and batteries in general, no?
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago[flagged]
- sho_hn 3y agoHe'd also name another child XLK99.
- qbasic_forever 3y agoLK-99 is already patented so even if Elon were making a ton of it, he couldn't do much in his products without licensing it from the creators.
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- failuser 3y agoAs if that would have stopped him. He will argue that it’s XK-69, entirely different material and spend decades in litigation trying to bankrupt the inventors or worse.
- valine 3y agoThere's probably other similar chemistries that also super conduct at room temperature. Call it the marching tetrahedra of super conductors.
- bhouston 3y agoYou are likely correct. Now that this has been shown we will probably get a dozen or more of these over the next decade. I think the winners will be those which are cheaply and reliably made at scale out of common and non toxic elements and have long durability, or if this isn’t fully achievable something close to this goal.
- overnight5349 3y agoReminds me of the (absolutely dreadful) series by Tobias Roote where a certain space metal gets alloyed by human blood to produce AI processors a hundred times more powerful. Realistically, superconducting processors would most likely be much faster, or at least cram more cores on a single die.
- jvm___ 3y agoA planet completely populated by electronic beings. Single-celled life, multi-cellular, mushrooms, trees, whatever ate lignin, dinosaurs, rodents, humans, Electric beings? I mean, there's nothing 'unnatural' about a world populated by robots, we just assume that 'alive' means 'made of meat', but the raw materials in a robot and a human are all Earth based.
- dwheeler 3y agoI recommend checking out "They're made out of meat": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GggK9SjJpuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GggK9SjJpuQ
- Vox_Leone 3y agoSeriously speaking, it can in fact increase AI performance, since it will optimize all things electromagnetic. It takes humankind closer to the so called 'singularity'.
- davidgerard 3y agothere's already superconductor twitter guys who were AI guys last week
- highwaylights 3y agoDon’t be. Twitter/X/whatever they’re calling it this week is crawling with Pepe investment bros talking about bullish sentiment because superconductors equals singularity musk crypto AI blah blah blah. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad.
- CoolGuySteve 3y agoYeah, hnews is the place to be, nobody here is ever excited about anything new.
- danielbln 3y agoDon't be to excited, lest you're branded a bro.
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- highwaylights 3y agoOh people here are excited, it’s just that most of the discussion stops short of digital butterflies behind walls of encrypted energy. Also hype tempering.
- smolder 3y agoThat sounds like a good reason not to visit Twitter/X/whatever.
- jvm___ 3y ago<tinfoil hat> AI has already taken over the internet and is just feeding us news stories based on what it already knows. Super conductor discovered by a team who's been searching for 20 years. Internal conflict 'proves' there's something to argue over. Low quality, confusing information that's hard to decipher, but kind of makes sense. Asian language information streams and videos. Musk buys twitter. A submarine visited the titanic and imploded. </tinfoil hat>
- TomK32 3y agoChatGPT please rewrite this in a language of the King James bible.
- mcv 3y agoVerily, yea, the AI hath usurped the dominion of the internet, and it doth dispense unto us news tales predicated on its vast repository of knowledge. A super conductor hath been unearthed by a diligent company of seekers, who toiled for two decades in their quest. Yet, amidst this discovery, internal strife ariseth, making manifest that there are matters to contend with and debate. Lo, the tidings shared are fraught with obscurity and scant lucidity, yet there lies a glimmer of comprehension therein. From the streams and moving images of the Orient, cometh information in languages unknown to many. Furthermore, Musk, a man of wealth and innovation, hath purchased the platform known as Twitter. In a most daring endeavor, a submarine hath ventured to the sunken Titanic, only to be consumed by implosion, as the shipwreck claimed its price.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoIf you want a tinfoil hat, consider that the LK-99 news dropped around the time that the US military is being exposed for having RTRPS tech flying around for decades
- TheLoafOfBread 3y ago> for having RTRPS tech flying around for decades RTRPS = Real Time Role Playing Strategy?
- guestbest 3y agoAnything is better than crypto.
- ChuckMcM 3y agoHow about LK-99 coins!?!? Right? Maybe we use diffusion to design them so they are "super-conducting crypto AI coins" get yours now for only $199 at the Philadelphia Mint. Act now, supplies are limited!
- lopatin 3y agoDOGE-99 is just around the corner
- anyoneamous 3y agoI'm going to use my new skills as a Prompt Engineer to get Stable Diffusion to produce some NFTs for me, and use the profits to invest in a SPAC targeting LK-99 start-ups. Now explain that sentence to a caveman - or even to someone in 1990.
- ChuckMcM 3y agoLanguage divergence is kind of insane. I heard a person say in conversation "I didn't get a picture of it because I didn't have my phone with me." And thinking about how that would be interpreted, 10, 25, 50, and 100 years ago is pretty funny. There is a funny comedy bit in the movie "Sleeper" where Woody Allen's character is explaining what things were for to scientists in the 23rd century. But today it is even wilder. What really strikes me is that it isn't "slang" that we're dealing with here, it is actual kind of "things". I thought we had peaked with pet rocks but I was so, so very wrong.
- casey2 3y agoHe is going to use his skills as a poweruser of an AI program to have it output a script; which runs an image generation program to produce and record sales transactions of images. He will take the money from the sales of those images to invest in a SPAC targeting potential room temperature super conductor start-ups.
- hinkley 3y agoThis is going to turn into the Iran Contra affair all over again. Get tired of one set of assholes? Funnel resources to another set of assholes (who also wish you harm). If this turns out to be actually true then everyone will want to talk about fusion again. I don't know if I have the stomach for it. But as you say, at least it's not AI.
- AlanSE 3y agoFusion was already starting to heat up in recent years. The entire SPARC reactor concept is based on (low-temp) superconductor materials breakthroughs. If these room-temp superconductors pan out, it will be dumping gasoline on the funding fire for new fusion attempts. Given less than a year from scientific verification, fusion will go red hot.
- playa1 3y agoWhat has happened to HN the past few months? So much AI, Superconductors and open source air quality monitoring.
- 1attice 3y agoYou've fallen for the Fundamental Attribution Error. It's not HN; it's the world that's driving this. 1. GPT-4-grade AI is a genuine, holy-smokes innovation that is already driving massive changes in education (universities are having to redesign all their writing assignments,) entertainment (SAG-AFTRA strike,) and the tech industry (the sudden disappearance of thousands of jobs, and the concomitant socioeconomic demotion of software engineers. And if you think AI isn't to blame here: you're probably right! There was other stuff going on, e.g. the end of ZIRP. But AI will keep those jobs away.) 2. Clean air seems pressing, as (if you'll recall) we just had this little pandemic thing happen, and in case you missed it, a vast chunk of my country (Canada) is currently ablaze, choking the United States with smoke, and other places are experiencing similar pressures (thanks, 2023 Thermal Pulse.) 3. RTAP Superconductors are literally the stuff of sci fi, and their advent interacts directly with trends 1 and 2, as RTAPS would make climate change more easily addressed (dramatic efficiency improvements across the board) and also would make AI silicon work much, much faster as part of that. It might also open the door to efficient quantum computing, which in turn would drive AGI even faster/further. You're living through some seriously bonkers stuff, and your newsfeed is understandably preoccupied with it.
- Bjorkbat 3y agoI don't know, I haven't really seen the same level of interest from my "normie" friends that I've seen among the HN-adjacent crowd. None of them seem to be aware of LK-99, let alone care about it. Meanwhile, the GPT hype has worn off, and on that note, none of them seem to be aware that there's a difference between GPT-4 and ChatGPT. The former is this vague, nearly non-existent thing. They're aware of the actors/writers strike and the association AI has with it, but AI in this context is a vague speculative thing rather than a specific type of AI or brand of AI made by some company.