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The Spanish administration is obsessed with AI. Granada and its broken street monitoring is the last test

April 10, 2025 by usatoday24

Granada has just embrace a new system to monitor in real time the status of its urban elements. One based, of course, in artificial intelligence. A car, Lidar sensors, high precision GPS and a municipal management platform responsible for collecting this data for later treatment. The news comes a few weeks after the Traffic light implementation with AI to regulate the state of traffic in one of the most chaotic roundabouts in the city. They are evidence of an obsession of the Spanish administration of a time to this part: automate processes with AI. That road is broken. The damage on public roads are inevitable. And it is the obligation of the State responsible for repairing them with immediacy. In fact, if you suffer an accident for poor state of some road, you are protected by article 106 of the Spanish Constitution. This establishes that any individual will have the right to be compensated for any injury that he and his assets suffer whenever the injury is “a consequence of the functioning of public services.” The plan. Granada wants to be aware of the damage in its urban environment, both on roads and in the rest of its streets: painted, infrastructure in poor condition, damage of all kinds. To do this, in collaboration with Innovasur, it will implement a car equipped with hardware capable of capturing in real time the status of the urban environment (through cameras, Lidar and GPS), sending this data to a management platform responsible for monitoring the information. The objective is to monitor large surfaces in a short time, and provide complete information to the city to expedite operational efficiency. AI, AI and more. Granada’s plan joins the wide list of Spanish cities using AI for things. Cordova already regulates Some of its traffic lights with AI to detect pedestrians with disabilities, Santander has one of the greater urban infrastructures related to the world, and Valencia already proves artificial intelligence functions to prevent natural disasters. Spain is not at the forefront in AIalthough we do not stop seeing new projects related to it. The main doubt? The one we always have with AI: It is not trustworthy. The Spanish transpiés with AI. The Ábalos case is one of the most recent and sounded in this “bad” cloud. Some of the transcripts of the statements of Judge Leopoldo Puente or the former Minister José Luis Ábalos were made with AI tools. The results were absolutely terrible. Something even more serious happened recently with the National Police: I had been using an AI for six years to detect false complaints. An AI whose reliability Now we know it was quite debatable. Modernizing administration is useful and necessary. As long as we base these tools on reliable methods. In Xataka | The infrastructure boom for AI begins to show cracks: China accumulates unreasonable data centers, and is not the only one Image | Martin MassonWaymo

The probability that the asteroid falls on Earth has risen to 2.3%. Even the Webb Telescope is monitoring it

February 7, 2025 by usatoday24

The last NASA calculations They place the probability that the asteroid 2024 YR4 impact with the land by 2.3%, a figure that the European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed with Its own 2.27% estimate. For those who have lost their account, in just one week of observations We have gone from 1 between 83 possibilities that the asteroid crosses the planet Earth to 1 between 43. The options are still low, but they are high enough for the offices of NASA planetary defense and that They have intensified their monitoring efforts. To the James Webb space telescope, 10,000 million dollars, will be monitoring The little asteroid. 2024 YR4 is not much, but with A diameter of between 40 and 90 meterscould destroy an entire city if it survived the reentry and impact an urban area. When? On January 22, 2032. Where? At some point in the strip that extends from the East of the Pacific Ocean to northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea and the south of Asia. It should be noted that These impact estimates They are calculated taking as reference the quotient between the diameter of the earth and the width of the area of uncertainty of the asteroid, generated from simulations. The problem: 2024 YR4 is moving away from Earth In an elliptical trajectorywhich hinders its detection with conventional instruments. In a few weeks it will have become so faint that even professional four -meter telescopes have trouble capturing it. As of April, it will be necessary to resort to the Webb or the Vary Large Telescope of the Austral European Observatory to continue watching it until the object reappears In June 2028. The monitoring of the trajectory of an asteroid is a dynamic process that surely gives us a roller coaster of emotions. As more observations from the asteroid and its trajectory have, the probability of impact could increase again and then progressively reduce until reaching zeroconfirming the main hypothesis: that the asteroid will pass by instead of colliding with the earth. If not, the good news is that humanity has experience in asteroid diversion. In 2022, NASA’s dart mission He showed that it is possible to alter the trajectory of a spatial object through a kinetic impact. This historical achievement is the empirical test that we have the technology and knowledge necessary to at least try to protect our planet. Meanwhile, the UN has put on alert the Space Missions Advisory Group (SMPAG), which agreed to meet again at the end of April or early May to study possible mitigation measures in case the probability of impact is maintained or increased . Image | Daniel Bamberger In Xataka | The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has risen to 1.6%. The UN has already activated a special protocol

China is closely monitoring the United States movement with Stargate. And your answer has already prepared

January 24, 2025 by usatoday24

The US government led by Donald Trump is determined to lead in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) cost what it costs. And in principle this initiative, baptized by the new administration as ‘Stargate project’it will cost 500,000 million dollars. This money will leave the coffers of the Japanese investment group SoftBank; of those of OpenAI, the creators of Chatgpt; of those of Oracle, and, finally, it will also be provided by the investment firm Emiraratí MGX. These companies will support the construction during the next four years of an advanced data centers that will house the high performance computing infrastructure necessary to keep the US at the head in the field of AI. Interestingly, the spearhead of these facilities is already being built in Texas (USA). For China, this ambitious US project represents a threat to the same extent that for the country led by Donald Trump Chinese advances in AI constitute a problem. China’s response is already underway The administration headed by Xi Jinping has rushed to make the US know that its Stargate plan will receive an answer from your country. “China has made impressive advances in the construction of smart computer centers. While maintaining the current rhythm, the gap in the field of computing infrastructure that separates them from the US will be reduced even more … despite the Stargate project,” has declared Lian JyeChief analyst of the British consultant OMDIA. China has advanced a lot during the last 24 months in the field of high performance computing infrastructure SANCTIONS TO CHINA deployed by the US and its allies During the last two and a half years they pursue the development of their semiconductor industry, and Also from its AI infrastructure. In the field of integrated circuits Chinese manufacturers face the enormous challenge of producing their own equipment from extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) necessary to be able to manufacture avant -garde semiconductors. However, in the field of Chinese high performance computing infrastructures it has advanced a lot during the last 24 months. In fact, Official data They reflect that in June 2024 they were recently finished or under construction at least 250 advanced data centers and other computer facilities in China. According to the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the country led by Xi Jinping is only behind the US. Although This source is interestedhis conclusion is very credible. “We hope that China significantly increase its investments in AI and semiconductors in response to the US domain in AI,” CBM consultancy analysts foresee. It makes sense. These two great powers world supremacy are being disputedso it is understandable that each significant step that give one of the two Receive a more or less overwhelming answer from the other. We can be sure that 2025 will be a year even more agitated than 2024 in the geopolitical and technological fields, so we will be attentive to the steps that US and China will surely give. Image | Christina Morillo More information | SCMP In Xataka | Huawei attacks Nvidia positions in China: he wants to have dominant hardware in inference processes in AI

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