“Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are working on replacing these bar magnets with tiny magnetic vortices, known as skyrmions. These vortices, which are as small as billionths of a meter, form in certain magnetic materials and have the potential to bring about a new generation of microelectronics for memory storage in high-performance computers.”

“We estimate the skyrmion energy efficiency could be 100 to 1000 times better than current memory in the high-performance computers used in research,” McCray said.”

Very, very interesting stuff! The memory density, reliability, stability and efficiency of future memory will be astonishing; we're already blowing our own minds with how far digital memory has come in the last few decades.

But now that 'we', as a huge social superorganism bestriding the earth, have really started getting right down to the basic molecular electromagnetic physical chemistry of things like this, the possibilities opening up in front of us are hard to even comprehend...

Sounds like the thing they will definitely NOT transform are high-performance computers. Energy efficiency isn't what we lack in storage - it's performance and memory density but overwhelmingly the problem is the former. This just sounds like tech for next gen high density hard drives.

I think every time someone with a physics degree notices that you can put matter in a given arrangement and it stays that way, someone writes a story about how it could revolutionize computer memory.

If GPT-4 doesn’t have any VR integration, i’m not calling that shit AI. This is certainly going to be needed for a part of the architecture for AI.

And? This is how people with physics degrees end up changing the world. Even if 99% of the attempts turn out to be hocus pocus and dead ends, it's the trying that's the thing, and trying to be critical but optimistic at the same time 👍

You are right, memristors have still not been used widely

Bruh what? Did an AI write this reply?

No i’m just saying gpt-4 better have text to 3D video. If not, I won’t be impressed.

Prepare for disappointment. I have no idea why you think it would have that lol

Look, you gotta atleast state your view before talking mad shit. This sub is diverse asf, some think GPT-4 will be a bust while others think it’ll be that one jew named jesus rising from the dead and rapturing us into heaven.

Pretty sure it's gonna just be ChatGPT but smarter and less wrong. Expecting it to also suck your dick and play the trumpet is an unreasonable projection of the capabilities of a text-to-text AI.

People make those dick sucking jokes and play the trumpet as an analogy to interacting in fdvr. AI will be indistinguishable from humans in the metaverse which is supposed to 3 dimensional and include all 5 human senses which MK thinks will happen in 5-15 years.

Listen lady, I want a dick sucking, trumpet playing FDVR experience too, but that is NOT what GPT4 is. If you think everyone at openAI is secretly plugged into the matrix interacting with GPT4 then you need to recalibrate how far along the exponential curve we are, because we're pretty far, but not THAT far.

GPT-4 isn’t even out yet, why you makin certain assumptions 😂 i got a dick btw and i don’t plan on changing it to pussy in the metaverse.

"If the next iPhone doesn't dispense ice cream I'm not gonna be impressed"

"It probably won't do that because it's a phone"

"Well it's not even out yet, why you making assumptions?"

You're an interesting character lol. Also I'm def changing my genitals in FDVR, I want like 5 dicks, 6 vergubas, and at least 3 titties. Otherwise are you really even living?

My point stands imo. And yeah, i’m jus gonna make my dick longer, girthier, slimier, and make it to where I can nut entire gallons worth of nut on my AI hoes.

Godspeed to you, good sir. Godspeed. o7

Could you explain to me a little bit what the implications of this could be? I'm not really familiar with the subject.

Not an engineer by any measure, so I don't really know what I'm talking about... But, as far as I can tell, figuring out how to use the newly discovered information-holding potential within these kind of ultra, ultra tiny, yet extraordinarily robust, non-volatile and relatively easy to manipulate electromagnetic 'static vortices'...

/ takes deep breath / could dramatically increase the density, reliability and overall utility of electromagnetic data storage, but it is probably many years away before any kind of remotely practical hardware could be built to utilise it.

It's similar, I think, to the sci-fi idea of embedding/extracting data through lasers, working three-dimensionally within the molecular matrix of high-purity crystals. It's a neat idea with a lot of hypothetical potential, but at this stage it's a bit of a crap-shoot how 'feasible' it could be.

Hopefully these are the sorts of questions that AI will rapidly become better at answering!

What's the catch?

There's always a catch.

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Just wait for another Carrington Event. Poof...

It's a candidate to replace the transistor

Is it? I thought it looked like a matrix of 'up'/'down' information holding bits in a magnetic substrate. I must have missed the bit where it could provide transistor functionality as a microscopic remotely-switched current gate.

I don't see how these vortices could be strung together into and/nand/or/nor logic pathways, like transistors do. It really just looks like an information-carrying magnetic substrate. Did I miss something?

This is super impressive.

Congrats to all involved.