Kardashev index
0.728
Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1
AccelerationFour-dimensional view5 years ago
2021-06-29
AI Coding Assistants
Copilot brings code generation into the editor, moving AI from lab demos into everyday workflows as programmers get suggestions from natural language and context.
Art style · Contemporary realistic technology illustration
Origin of Life on EarthDinosaurs and MammalsAI Agents
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7.99Bpeople
Comparable to today
1.9×10¹³W
1/1 of today
3.8×10¹⁰floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)
1/2 of today
0.03 seconds
Comparable to today
39,897km/h
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Predicts protein structures with near-experimental accuracy at CASP14. Source
The UK authorizes the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first mRNA vaccine approved for use. Source
China's first lunar sample-return mission brings back 1,731 grams of lunar soil. Source
The Tianwen-1 lander soft-lands on Mars carrying the Zhurong rover. Source
AI completes code in the editor from context, giving programmers a coding assistant. Source
An infrared space telescope lifts off to observe the early universe. Source
A paper describes training language models on human demonstrations and preference rankings so answers better follow user instructions; the approach was later used for ChatGPT. Source
Text-to-image generation reaches the mainstream. Source
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