Summary: What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? | ZDNET (00:57) ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an AI and research company. Launched on November 30, 2022. ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot.It answers questions and can assist you with tasks Open to the public “ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI," said nonother than Elon Musk Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated on twitter the success of their chatbot:“ChatGPT launched on wednesday. Today it crossed 1 million users!” Altman tweeted that just 5 days after ChatGPT went online One twitter thread that I’ve seen that shows the power of this sophisticated chatbot was posted by Ben Tossell (@bentossell)One tweet in the thread was a quote tweeting @jdjkelly post stating: “Google is done. Compare the quality of these responses (ChatGPT)” The tweet has pictures comparing the question asked in Google Search and ChatGPT. GPT was straightforward, explained thoroughly, and had examples. It should be noted when comparing GPT to a search engineChatGPT does not have the ability to search the internet for information and rather, uses the information it learned from training data to generate a response, which leaves room for error. One issue I have encountered with GPT is that the responses it generates are not always of high quality. Responses may sound plausible, but they lack practical sense or are overly verbose. NASA’s TBIRD Mission Demonstrates 1.4TB Optical Downlink | Via Satellite (06:18) NASA’s TBIRD mission recently achieved a record for optical communications in spaceThe satellite downlinked 1.4 terabytes of data over laser communications links in a single pass that lasted about five minutes. TBIRD = TeraByte InfraRed Delivery According to NASA, the goal of the TBIRD program was to “establish a communication link from a nanosatellite in low-Earth orbit to a ground station at burst rates up to 200 Gbps.”Built by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Integrated into NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 Satellite (PTD-3) NASA confirmed this amazing data transfer milestone on Twitter:“Our tiny TBIRD payload just achieved a major milestone! The @NASA_Technology mission downlinked a record-setting data volume of 1.4 terabytes over laser comm links in a single, ~5-minute pass. TBIRD is showing the benefits laser comm can have for missions.” Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source | TechXplore (09:34) MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source.These durable, flexible solar cells are much thinner than a human hair. Are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on a fixed surface. Because they are so thin and lightweight, these solar cells can be laminated onto many different surfaces.Could be integrated onto the sails of a boat to provide power while at sea, Adhered onto tents and tarps that are deployed in disaster recovery operations Applied onto the wings of drones to extend their flying range. They are one-hundredth the weight of conventional solar panels, generate 18 times more power-per-kilogram, and are made from semiconducting inks.Uses printing processes that can be scaled in the future to large-area manufacturing. When they tested the device, the MIT researchers found it could generate 730 watts of power per kilogram when freestanding and about 370 watts-per-kilogram if deployed on the high-strength fabric. 18 times more power-per-kilogram than conventional solar cells. After rolling and unrolling a fabric solar panel more than 500 times, the researchers saw that the cells still retained more than 90 percent of their initial power generation. Jeremiah Mwaura, a co-author on the study, explains why the team is looking at the encasing method next:“Encasing these solar cells in heavy glass, as is standa
