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Intelligence is often measured by facts known and judgments made. Schools reward memorization, work requires discernment, while AI now reduces intelligence to calculation. But intelligence is more than what can be counted, calculated, or measured. Join clinical psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the world’s leading autism expert, to explore what the human mind is, how modern education and technology are reshaping how we think, and what is at risk when we mistake a computer’s appearance of thought for thought itself. Maria Balaska hosts.
The fact that this scenario accounts for both survival and delay makes it all the more compelling.
If the findings are confirmed, they would have far-reaching implications for fundamental physics, since they suggest the universe acts as a laboratory for quantum gravity, probing energies well beyond the range of Earth’s particle accelerators.
In addition, very high-energy photons might point to new physics, hinting at the point at which Einstein’s theory starts to break down under the most extreme conditions. In the future, more gamma-ray bursts could offer further tests, enabling scientists to refine or question this developing model and possibly leading to a new frontier in our knowledge of gravity.
Alfred North Whitehead wrote that civilization advances by increasing the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.
He meant that as a compliment.
We have since built a technology whose whole purpose is to extend that list, for everyone, at once, permanently. Which raises a question I rarely see asked:
What happens when #ArtificialIntelligence finishes the list?
Human genius is not the bottleneck here. It never was. Genius sent our machines to Mars. Genius also shows up in the biographies of history’s most gifted scientists, artists, and founders, most of whom made a spectacular mess of their own lives. Talent and character are not the same currency, and having a pile of one tells you nothing about the other.
So the question in this piece is not whether we are clever enough to build something godlike. We obviously are. It is whether we are wise enough to survive it.
Rumi turns up. So does Marcus Aurelius. So do the Greek and Norse gods, who wielded power that makes our data centers look modest, and destroyed themselves with it anyway.
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TianGong Ultra Beat Usain Bolt’s 100m Record — Then Admitted It Can’t Brake Safely.
China’s TianGong Ultra ran 100 meters in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games (Usain Bolt’s record: 9.58s).
Impressive speed. Real sim-to-real transfer under competition pressure.
But the robot’s own lead engineer said braking remains unsolved. At 75 kg and speeds over 17 m/s, the robots used crash mats because safe stopping wasn’t ready yet.
This is a genuine technical achievement. It is not yet commercial readiness.
For anyone evaluating humanoids for industrial use: competition records are exciting, but the ability to stop safely at those speeds is the real question that matters.
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Astronomers have found the first direct evidence that a wandering black hole can feed itself by dragging gas along in its wake as it moves through its galaxy. It’s the first direct evidence of an accretion channel long predicted in theory but never before observed. The paper describing this discovery was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 11.
The black hole investigated in this study, led by Xin Li of Westlake University in China, is located in UGCA 320—an edge-on dwarf irregular galaxy about 20 million light-years away. A Hubble Space Telescope image showed that this object sat outside the galaxy’s main star-forming disk. MUSE observations from 2021 revealed broad Balmer emission, a signature of an accreting massive black hole. The broad Balmer emission-line component revealed the black hole’s mass to be around 35,000 times the sun’s mass. Multiple independent observations support its identification as an accreting intermediate-mass black hole.
The traits of this “wandering” black hole checked out. Intermediate-mass black holes have masses ranging from 100 to 100,000 times the sun’s mass. They are thought to be the seeds of the supermassive black holes found at galaxy centers. Some are expected to end up drifting far from the gas-rich centers that normally feed them.
Electronic voting, the use of electronic systems to cast, record or count votes, could potentially simplify the process of electing new political leaders or other representatives. While some countries have already started using internet-connected devices or electronic voting machines at polling stations, the trustworthiness, security and anonymity of electronic voting systems are still widely debated.
Two distinct research teams, based at Sorbonne University and at the University of Geneva, recently carried out similar experiments assessing the potential of quantum physics-informed electronic voting protocols. The results of their tests, both published in Physical Review Letters, indicate that quantum protocols could allow votes to be collected electronically while protecting voter anonymity, without relying on a trusted central election authority.