the miracle of neuralink
earlier this year Elon Musk stated that the first human neuralink trial have been successfully done, but we did not have any information regarding this operation which was very concerning, the lack of information made a lot of people suspect that the first patient actually died after the neuralink surgery from complications especially that the early test subjects faced similar fate.
the first patient’s name is Nolan and he is a quadriplegic who lost the ability to walk after a diving accident, the neuralink is able to take signals from Nolan’s brain directly and transmit it to other devices which allowed him to play computer video games without touching or interacting physically with the computer.
Elon Musk stated that only people with neuralink implanted in their brains can compete with AI in the future.
however a lot of people showed real concerns toward this new technology because if you think about it it can cause dystopian world where big companies who manufacture and sell this neural link chips can broadcast advertisement directly to your brain or can read your thoughts which is scary and huge risk of breach of privacy.
the 5.5G era
while 5G is the fastest cellular technology that was widely adopted in 2019, recently China’s state owned Telecom company “China Telecom” reported that they were able to develop 5.5 G network Technology Xiaomi reported that their new flagship “14 Ultra” support this technology and can reach speeds exceeding 5 GB per second
while Oppo CEO Pete lau posted a picture of his company’s flagship indicating using “5GA” technology which is “ 5G Advance “ the official name for 5.5G .
a new voice imitating AI
open AI the company that created chat GPT just announced their new voice engine that can replicate any voice after being trained for a 15 seconds only using someone’s voice however the company did not publish this technology publicly yet.
Such a technology can be used to do illegal activities in the wrong hand especially if accessing data only requires a phone call, which is the case in many banks around the world that only require a phone call to authenticate wire transactions.
China’s work around the American Technology sanctions
last year America made sanctions on China to prevent exporting high-end graphic cards such as Nvidia RTX 4090 to China, fearing that China will use this graphic cards to develop Advanced artificial intelligence.
therefore the United States forced Nvidia to make a cut down version that is weaker called RTX 4090D which is allowed to be export to China, however a Hong Kong best tech and review site posted that by using overclocking technology they were able to enhance the 4090D to reach the same level as a normal 4090
FuryGPU
in an unprecedented event a new GPU called [FuryGPU] is engineered and made entirely by single person ” Dylan Barrie “, Dylan said that he has been working on this project on his spare time after his full-time job for 4 years, the GPU can runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software. And he is planning to make the whole project open source after solving some legal issues with the company he is working with