INCOSE International Workshop 2024
The INCOSE International Workshop 2024 will be held January 27–30 in
Torrance, California and in Cyberspace. The purpose of this conference
is to demonstrate the progress and potential of systems engineering in
the solution of global societal problems.
Our David Schrunk will be speaking!
Learn more at https://www.incose.org/iw2024
Kavli-IAU Symposium 2024
The Kavli-IAU Symposium 2024 “(Toward) Discovery of Life Beyond Earth
and its Impact” will be held April 15–19, 2024 in Durham, UK and in
Cyberspace.
Our Kathryn Denning, Daniela de Paulis, John Elliott, Jacob Haqq-Misra,
Andjelka B. Kovacevic, George Profitiliotis, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, and
Stephen Webb will be speaking.
Learn more at https://kavli-iau-2024.durham.ac.uk/wordpress
Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law
Our Tina Ishak has launched a Call for Papers for an academic conference
and journal publication on “Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the
Law” which has an element of futures and scenario planning.
Learn more at
https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/eve...gies-law
Satellite 2024 Conference & Exhibition
Satellite 2024 Conference & Exhibition will be held March 18–21, 2024 in
Washington, DC.
Our Christina Korp, Charles Miller, Peter Platzer, and Alvaro Alonso
Ruiz will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.satshow.com
TransVision Utrecht 2024
Transvision Utrecht 2024 will be held January 20–21, 2024 in Utrecht,
The Netherlands.
Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Cordeiro, Randal Koene, David Pearce, Brenda
Ramokopelwa, Anders Sandberg, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
Learn more at https://transvision-conference.org
Papers
Read “AI-pocalypse Now” by our Matt Barrie at
https://medium.com/@matt_11659/c04de8d0f435
Read “Artificial Intelligence as an Aid to Thinking Otherwise — but to
what End?” by our Anthony Judge at
https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs20s/cats4.php
Read “Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of
Independent Innovation,” authored by our Kevin LaGrandeur at
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio...novation
Read “Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models”,
coauthored by our Alon Halevy and Fil Menczer at
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05189
Read “Learning Optimal Advantage from Preferences and Mistaking it for
Reward”, coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone at
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02456
Videos
Watch the “TEDx Talk How to Make Common Sense Common Knowledge” by our Corrinne Graham at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFxiu_SVTHM
Blog
Dalton Daniel joins our blog team with the post “GPT-4 falls short of
Turing threshold” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/gpt-4...hreshold
Michael LaTorra joins our blog team with the post “What space does to
the body” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/what-...the-body
Chris Mcaulay joins our blog team with the post “WATCH XPRIZE Launch Its
Biggest Prize Ever, A Game-changer For Human Aging” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/watch...althspan
Chris Smedley joins our blog team with the post “Unlock Adult Learning
Potential: Neuroscientist Reveals Best Methods” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/unloc...-methods
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/a-gli...lphafold
“A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/a-new...ng-gpt-4
“A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass JWST” by Chris Smedley at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/a-new...ass-jwst
“A promising pairing: Scientists demonstrate new combination of materials for quantum science” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/a-pro...-science
“A Virus that Generates Electricity” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/a-vir...ctricity
“Ancient Chinese city found perfectly preserved at the bottom of a lake” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/ancie...f-a-lake
“Cancer Cells Steal Mitochondria from T Cells” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/cance...-t-cells
“Cerebras Systems And G42 Build 2nd Phase Of Joint AI Supercomputer” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/cereb...computer
“Chinese robot clones pigs with no human help” by Zola Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/chine...man-help
“The computational capacity of the universe” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/the-c...universe
“Earth Just Received A Laser-Beamed Message From 16 Million Kilometers Away” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/earth...ers-away
“Elon Musk Hints at Bringing Tesla Bot’s Bulletproof Cybertruck Test to Life in the Coming Year” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/elon-...ing-year
“EyeD: This handheld device detects brain injury in minutes” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/eyed-...-minutes
“First AI Images Extracted From Human Brain Revealed” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/first...revealed
“First functional semiconductor made from graphene” by Will Fox at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/first...graphene
“Future Business Tech” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/futur...ess-tech
“The Future’s Magnetic Pull: 3D-Printed Electromagnetic Coils” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/the-f...ic-coils
“Google Settles $5 Billion Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in ‘Incognito Mode’” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/googl...ito-mode
“The GPT to rule them all: Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US government has just begun” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/the-g...st-begun
“GPT-4’s potential in shaping the future of radiology” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/gpt-4...adiology
“Happy 191st (or so) birthday to the world’s oldest living land animal” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/happy...d-animal
“Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/laser...e-vacuum
“Microbes May Be The Secret Behind Keto Diet’s Protection Against Epileptic Seizures” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/micro...seizures
“Move Over, CRISPR: Algae and Snails Are Hiding Gene Editing Superpowers” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/move-...erpowers
“Nanowire ‘brain’ network learns and remembers ‘on the fly’” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/nanow...-the-fly
“New tumor-selective light treatment could kill breast cancer cells with greater accuracy and improve tumor control” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/new-t...-control
“OpenAI’s Altman says today’s AI will be ‘quaint’ by next year, talks GPT-5” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/opena...ks-gpt-5
“Pancreatic Cancer Finds Alternate Fuel for Survival, Growth” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/pancr...l-growth
“Researchers create first programmable, logical quantum processor” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/resea...rocessor
“Scientists Say There May Be Life Under Mercury’s Salt Glaciers” by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/scien...glaciers
“Scientists Solved the Nagging Mystery of How Genes Emerge From Nothing” by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/scien...-nothing
“Stealing fire from the gods: Artificial Intelligence and the evolution of thought” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/steal...-thought
“Study illuminates formation of US east coast during break up of supercontinent Pangea” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/study...t-pangea
“Study reveals Relationship of Gut Microbiome on Children’s Brain Development and Function” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/study...function
“Supersonic nuclear-powered plane would fly from London to New York in less time than a soccer game” by Joseph Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/super...cer-game
“Taurine appears to reverse aging in animals. Can it do the same for us?” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/tauri...e-for-us
“Teleportation Will Be Here Sooner Than You Think” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/telep...ou-think
“Twitter CEO Says She Wishes Elon Musk’s AI Would Talk About Sex With Her Kids” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/twitt...her-kids
“Using AI to Translate Animal Communication — Joe Rogan” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/using...oe-rogan
“Wild new NASA plasma tech reduces drag during hypersonic flight” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/wild-...c-flight
“With a quantum ‘squeeze,’ clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/with-...-propose
“World’s First Human ‘Brain-Scale’ Supercomputer Will Go Online in 2024” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/12/world...-in-2024
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