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Creating training data for software engineering agents is difficult. Until now.
Introducing SWE-smith: Generate 100s to 1000s of task instances for any GitHub repository.
We’ve generated 50k+ task instances for 128 popular GitHub repositories, then trained our own LM for SWE-agent.
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a groundbreaking robot with a “genuine sense of touch” to revolutionize warehouse operations. Can Vulcan outpace human stowers in efficiency and creativity? With robots stowing 80% of 14 billion items annually, the future of logistics is here. Are you ready for it?
Amazon has a new warehouse robot that, for the first time, can “feel” the items it’s handling. CNBC got an exclusive first look at Vulcan in action at a warehouse in Spokane, Washington, where it stows items in tall yellow bins. Until now, only humans could handle the stowing job, but Amazon says Vulcan will create new jobs instead of eliminating them. Amazon wouldn’t disclose how much it cost to develop Vulcan, but it says it took three years and a team that’s grown to 250 people.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction.
1:24 Sense of touch.
5:30 Replacing workers?
8:22 Speed, safety and scale.
Produced and shot by: Katie Tarasov.
Edited by: Evan Lee Miller.
Senior Director of Video: Jeniece Pettitt.
Animation: Mallory Brangan.
Additional Footage: Amazon, Getty Images.
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Long COVID can result in increased risk for a variety of serious health problems for young people, including those affecting the kidney, gut, and cardiovascular system, according to a group of new studies led by investigators at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
“While most public attention has focused on the acute phase of COVID-19, our findings reveal children face significant long-term health risks that clinicians need to monitor,” said senior author Yong Chen, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. The studies were conducted under the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, a special project including more than two dozen health care institutions.
These medical centers pooled de-identified data from electronic health records dating back to the start of the COVID pandemic.
One of AI’s leading researchers has a simple piece of career advice for young people worried about future-proof skills in the ChatGPT era: be curious.
“I think one job that will not be replaced by AI is the ability to be curious and go after hard problems,” Anima Anandkumar, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview with EO Studio that aired on Monday.
“So for young people, my advice is not to be afraid of AI or worry what skills to learn that AI may replace them with, but really be in that path of curiosity,” Anandkumar added.
Physicists have made a groundbreaking discovery that confirms a century-old quantum theory by capturing images of free-range atoms interacting in space for the first time.
Kurian’s group believes these large tryptophan networks may have evolved to take advantage of their quantum properties. When cells breathe using oxygen—a process called aerobic respiration—they create free radicals, or reactive oxygen species (ROS). These unstable particles can emit high-energy UV photons, which damage DNA and other important molecules.
Tryptophan networks act as natural shields. They absorb this harmful light and re-emit it at lower energies, reducing damage. But thanks to superradiance, they may also perform this protective function much more quickly and efficiently than single molecules could.
Digital transformation is blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres. From cloud computing, to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data, technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are shaping every aspect of our lives.
In the oil and gas industry, digital transformation is revolutionizing how we supply energy to the world. By deploying a range of 4IR technologies across our business, we aim to meet the world’s energy needs while enhancing productivity, reducing CO2 emissions, and creating next-generation products and materials.
Plasma is the fourth state of matter and is often referred to as an electrified gas. A plasma will form when a neutral gas is heated to the point where electrons are freed from their atoms. These free electrons allow current to flow through the gas so that it reacts to both electric and magnetic fields. Plasmas have many applications across materials science, medicine and manufacturing, however, specialised equipment is usually needed to maintain the plasma state.
The mostly widely used method for synthesising carbon nanotubes and other graphene nanocarbons is chemical vapour deposition, which requires substantial energy and material, and produces large quantities of carbon dioxide emissions. In 2009, Licht showed that a molten carbonate electrolysis method could be a more sustainable alternative. It involved directly splitting carbon dioxide into oxygen gas and carbon in the form of graphene nanocarbons.2
Now, Licht’s group has employed molten carbonate electrolysis to convert carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes. Microwaving these carbon nanotubes in a regular microwave oven ignites a striking yellow-white plasma within seconds and reaches temperatures exceeding 800°C.
