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Just read an awesome essay on the Scholar's Stage comparing @peterthiel 's and Vaclav Smil's differing theses on technological...

Just read an awesome essay on the Scholar's Stage comparing @peterthiel 's and Vaclav Smil's differing theses on technological stagnation.

I'm wondering whether nuclear weapons could have been the turning point between technological optimism to risk aversion?

Nuclear fission is the first general purpose technology that has clear, obvious, and potentially immediate, existential risks associated with it.

Well worth reading the full essay: https://scholars-stage.org/about-the-author/

Which companies are the best in the world at Product Management? I'm thinking Apple would be there. But what about 3M? Nintendo? Stanley...

Which companies are the best in the world at Product Management?

I'm thinking Apple would be there. But what about 3M? Nintendo? Stanley Black and Decker? Others?

The #CPU within a phone charger is 563 times faster than the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer, can store 1.78x more instructions, has a little...

The #CPU within a phone charger is 563 times faster than the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer, can store 1.78x more instructions, has a little over twice the RAM.

Phone chargers to the moon!

https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

It is hard to understand how much computer power we have at our fingertips today as a result of ~60 years of Moore's law. This is a...

It is hard to understand how much computer power we have at our fingertips today as a result of ~60 years of Moore's law. This is a great example...

A fun game to test prompt injection vulnerabilities in LLMs. Can you get the AI to reveal the secret password? https://gandalf.lakera.ai/...

A fun game to test prompt injection vulnerabilities in LLMs. Can you get the AI to reveal the secret password?

https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

#AI #LLMs #Cybersecurity

Interesting research into #AI model collapse: "The value of data collected about genuine human interactions with systems will be...

Interesting research into #AI model collapse: "The value of data collected about genuine human interactions with systems will be increasingly valuable in the presence of content generated by LLMs in data crawled from the Internet" https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

Innovation is hard! To innovate well you must accept that failure is a likely outcome and celebrate it when it happens but also learn from...

Innovation is hard! To innovate well you must accept that failure is a likely outcome and celebrate it when it happens but also learn from the mistakes that were made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfdBTsyrqaI

#Innovation #failure #productmanagement

As we approach Black Friday and the gift giving season are you unsure about what to get the #futurist in your life?Check out the futurist...

As we approach Black Friday and the gift giving season are you unsure about what to get the #futurist in your life?

Check out the futurist gift list for some ideas and get up to speed with the latest and greatest in #deeptech at the same time!

https://open.substack.com/pub/deepchasm/p/a-futurist-gift-list-and-deeptech?r=1gmuz7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The effects of a traumatic event are contagious. That is, their effects can spread well beyond their initial victims....

The effects of a traumatic event are contagious. That is, their effects can spread well beyond their initial victims. https://rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/11/terror-and-the-secondary-trauma-of-social-media via
@RANDCorporation

Customer #discovery is much harder with #deeptech because customers you speak to are unlikely to understand the #technology or know what...

Customer #discovery is much harder with #deeptech because customers you speak to are unlikely to understand the #technology or know what might be possible

Perceptions and capabilities across the animal kingdom are so different it doesn't make sense to compare intelligence. So why is #AI any...

Perceptions and capabilities across the animal kingdom are so different it doesn't make sense to compare intelligence. So why is #AI any different?

I explore this and review the latest and greatest in #deeptech in the current issue of my newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/deepchasm/p/am-i-more-intelligent-than-a-cuttlefish?r=1gmuz7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#newsletter #technology #innovation #strategy

Amazon uses over 750,000 robots across its warehouses to fetch, pick and sort 🤖 They are now taking their logistics automation to the...

Amazon uses over 750,000 robots across its warehouses to fetch, pick and sort 🤖

They are now taking their logistics automation to the next level with deployment of its integrated robotics platform, Sequoia and testing of Agility Robotics Digit

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-introduces-new-robotics-solutions

As Figure Rbotics launch their 01 robot this article shows we still have a lot to learn about humans and robots working alongside each other...

As Figure Rbotics launch their 01 robot this article shows we still have a lot to learn about humans and robots working alongside each other 🥶😏

#robots #cobots
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/18/social-loafing-found-when-working-alongside-robots

48% of the world's population is dependent on the Haber-Bosch process which is accountable for 1.4% of global CO2 emissions🤯But now...

48% of the world's population is dependent on the Haber-Bosch process which is accountable for 1.4% of global CO2 emissions🤯

But now researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a new laser-based process which is two orders of magnitude more efficient https://bit.ly/3S2aQXW

#agritech

The top 5 #science and #technology clusters are all in East Asia with Tokyo–Yokohama and Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou leading the pack...

The top 5 #science and #technology clusters are all in East Asia with Tokyo–Yokohama and Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou leading the pack 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻⚗️

The top corporate innovators in terms of increased R&D spen include
@nvidia@bird.makeup in #hardware
www.meta.com in #software
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com
in #pharmaceuticals
www.gm.com in #Automotive
www.boeing.com in #aerospace

R&D spending in 2021 grew quickly at 5.2% globally and 7% for business to make up for lower investment levels during the pandemic...

R&D spending in 2021 grew quickly at 5.2% globally and 7% for business to make up for lower investment levels during the pandemic 📈

However, the innovation outlook for the next couple of years is looking more uncertain ❓

Indicators of technological progress are looking positive across a range of domains from #supercomputers to #climatetech 🚀

For the past 10 years, scientific publications have grown 4.8%/year and patent applications 3.4%/year 🔥

And, despite the recent downturn, even #VC investment, in terms of deal value, has grown by an average of 20.6% per year since 2012 💸

But, despite all that, the socioeconomic impact of innovation has slowed with productivity stagnating, life expectancy falling and CO2 emissions rising 👎

Congratulations to Switzerland 🇨🇭 for making it to the top of WIPOs global #innovation index for the 13th year in a row! Top insights...

Congratulations to Switzerland 🇨🇭 for making it to the top of
WIPOs global #innovation index for the 13th year in a row!

Top insights from the report...

🧵

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo-pub-2000-2023-en-main-report-global-innovation-index-2023-16th-edition.pdf

Here is an old, but fascinating @tedtalks from The Silk Lab on the wonders of silk. Well worth a...

Here is an old, but fascinating
@tedtalks from The Silk Lab on the wonders of silk. Well worth a watch!📺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCQonI_8Dw

#Silk is one of nature's wonder #materials 🕸️Cultivated for over 5000 years it is responsible for the first global trade routes....

#Silk is one of nature's wonder #materials 🕸️Cultivated for over 5000 years it is responsible for the first global trade routes. Now researchers the Silk Lab @tuftsuniversity@bird.makeup have used silk to create #transistors that can integrate #biology with #microelectronics

http://bit.ly/3Q8cKE2

A hundred years ago you could die from a simple graze 🩹Thanks to #Antibiotics this is no longer a worry for most 💊But it is a constant...

A hundred years ago you could die from a simple graze 🩹Thanks to #Antibiotics this is no longer a worry for most 💊

But it is a constant race against evolution. We are running out of effective antibiotics and over a million people a year are dying as a result.

However, the good news is that computational approaches are emerging as powerful tools for the discovery of new antibiotics❤️‍🩹

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#deeptech #protopia #healthtech #ai #biotech