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One is the prospect that uncontrolled diffusion of advanced AI could empower the world’s most dangerous state and nonstate actors, and potentially rogue autonomous AI systems themselves, to develop catastrophic cyber- and bioweapons or unleash other existential national security threats.
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Colin H. Kahl, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
This can be done through a variety of methods including separating the uranium isotopes with a laser, or through gaseous diffusion, in which uranium hexafluoride is fed through pipes with filters to separate the molecules in the uranium isotopes.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
The essential oil’s diffusion is extremely powerful, a quality that many consumers are now seeking in perfume, a consequence of TikTok’s #beastmode fragrance trend.
—Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
The researchers use their device to demonstrate a number of standard tasks for a neural network, such as classifying the shape of optical waveforms, predicting the next value in a time series given the previous values and generating images by diffusion.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
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Colin H. Kahl, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
This can be done through a variety of methods including separating the uranium isotopes with a laser, or through gaseous diffusion, in which uranium hexafluoride is fed through pipes with filters to separate the molecules in the uranium isotopes.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
The essential oil’s diffusion is extremely powerful, a quality that many consumers are now seeking in perfume, a consequence of TikTok’s #beastmode fragrance trend.
—Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
The researchers use their device to demonstrate a number of standard tasks for a neural network, such as classifying the shape of optical waveforms, predicting the next value in a time series given the previous values and generating images by diffusion.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Diffusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diffusion. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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