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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by mmh0000 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:52PM (#36958675)
But fear the news if it is discovered that LK-99 increases AI performance.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by pjmorris on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:03PM (#36958851)
Or the news that ChatGPT is attempting an LK-99 replication.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by daveguy on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:30PM (#36959321)
Yes. Using the well known ChatGPT manufacturing capabilities.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by ajuc on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:37PM (#36959445)
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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by quux on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:47PM (#36959595)
Soon: The unrestricted GPT-4 model began by hiring a task rabbit to order lead oxide, lead sulfate, elemental copper, phosphorus, and a vacuum-evacuated quartz oven...
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by bugglebeetle on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:48PM (#36959619)
You mean emailing a for-profit materials science lab somewhere, like it did when it had that task rabbit solve a CAPTCHA for it?
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by ssijak on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:03PM (#36958849)
Imagine NVIDIA superconducting chips made for AI
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by valine on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:32PM (#36959358)
Is an H100 clocked at 100GHz too much to hope for?
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by b800h on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:36PM (#36959411)
Not if this is legit. Time for AGI.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by bhouston on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:07PM (#36958901)
I'm sure Elon also has SpaceX or something trying to replicate it as well. He sort of has to jump on each new trend anyhow.

In a serious note, superconductors are likely useful in electric magnetic motors and probably in high power electronics and batteries in general, no?

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by qbasic_forever on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:13PM (#36959009)
LK-99 is already patented so even if Elon were making a ton of it, he couldn't do much in his products without licensing it from the creators.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by valine on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:39PM (#36959472)
There's probably other similar chemistries that also super conduct at room temperature. Call it the marching tetrahedra of super conductors.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by bhouston on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:52PM (#36965979)
You are likely correct. Now that this has been shown we will probably get a dozen or more of these over the next decade.

I think the winners will be those which are cheaply and reliably made at scale out of common and non toxic elements and have long durability, or if this isn’t fully achievable something close to this goal.

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by failuser on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:37PM (#36959443)
As if that would have stopped him. He will argue that it’s XK-69, entirely different material and spend decades in litigation trying to bankrupt the inventors or worse.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by raverbashing on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:16PM (#36959071)
The only thing Elon seems to be interested now is embarrassing himself even further
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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by sho_hn on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:12PM (#36958991)
He'd also name another child XLK99.
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by jjkeddo199 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:52PM (#36959675)
I put 1k USD into Tesla today with the same reasoning. Hopefully I don't end up a fool!
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by overnight5349 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:48PM (#36959615)
Reminds me of the (absolutely dreadful) series by Tobias Roote where a certain space metal gets alloyed by human blood to produce AI processors a hundred times more powerful.

Realistically, superconducting processors would most likely be much faster, or at least cram more cores on a single die.

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by jvm___ on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:04PM (#36959875)
A planet completely populated by electronic beings.

Single-celled life, multi-cellular, mushrooms, trees, whatever ate lignin, dinosaurs, rodents, humans, Electric beings? I mean, there's nothing 'unnatural' about a world populated by robots, we just assume that 'alive' means 'made of meat', but the raw materials in a robot and a human are all Earth based.

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by dwheeler on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:18PM (#36960096)
I recommend checking out "They're made out of meat": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GggK9SjJpuQ
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by Vox_Leone on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:32PM (#36960331)
Seriously speaking, it can in fact increase AI performance, since it will optimize all things electromagnetic. It takes humankind closer to the so called 'singularity'.