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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Didn’t at all.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. square mile town will cause, there’s the bad math this adds up to for the climate. ” What a no-brainer.

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An iconic sedan gets electrified: the BMW 330e PHEV offers 22 e-miles

Current EV

The car’s e-range estimates won’t break any records, but the EPA says its 12 kilowatt-hour Lithium-Ion battery offers drivers 22 miles of pure electric range. Plug in at night, and you’ve got another 20 pure e-miles the next morning. The battery takes 6 hours to charge with a regular 10-amp household plug and 3.5

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sounds good to us; driving the upcoming Chevy Volt 200 miles only to find out the cars charger plug doesnt fit the jack at the hotel sure isnt my idea of a good time. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. Its enough of a pain when I accidentally leave my cell phone charger on my desk.

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Dreams Come True: Lucid delivers the Air Dream Edition

Teslarati

This was the first time owners were able to see the vehicle in person, sporting a wide variety of different interior and exterior colors, all of which were customizable through Lucid’s online design studio , which launched after the unveiling of the vehicle late last year.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

Cars That Think

Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Previously, Moore led a team at NASA that designed a personal-use eVTOL and then served as engineering director at Uber’s Elevate initiative. It’s also a triumph of engineering. We love that.”.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles. Price: $87,000. It takes the Volt about 9 seconds.)