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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j44g593 wrote

Very, very interesting stuff! The memory density, reliability, stability and efficiency of future memory will be astonishing; we're already blowing our own minds with how far digital memory has come in the last few decades.

But now that 'we', as a huge social superorganism bestriding the earth, have really started getting right down to the basic molecular electromagnetic physical chemistry of things like this, the possibilities opening up in front of us are hard to even comprehend...

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Shelfrock77 OP t1_j444mhk wrote

“Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are working on replacing these bar magnets with tiny magnetic vortices, known as skyrmions. These vortices, which are as small as billionths of a meter, form in certain magnetic materials and have the potential to bring about a new generation of microelectronics for memory storage in high-performance computers.”

“We estimate the skyrmion energy efficiency could be 100 to 1000 times better than current memory in the high-performance computers used in research,” McCray said.”

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JVM_ t1_j42esqj wrote

I mean, you can't blend as fast as the blender in your kitchen. You can do the same motion and number of repetitions, but the machine is much better than you at it.

I think we're at the same step in the industrial/data revolution.

Humans CAN do things, but AI can do them much quicker and faster.

A blender still needs human input, and a human to decide what and when to blend something.

A blender or Roomba wasn't envisioned when electric appliances started to be invented, maybe the world will be a better place with AI tools that we can't envision yet? Here's hoping.

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AI assisted chemistry so that we can refine oil out of the atmosphere?

AI modified plants/photosynthesis to create oil/sugars/plastic out of the atmosphere?

We already have AI that can model proteins folding sequences, and protein language is just another thing for the language models to learn. Here's hoping for a better world.

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