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Oct 3, 2024

Learn Origami with This AR App for Snap Spectacles

Posted by in category: augmented reality

A nice tool by Inna Horobchuk.

Oct 3, 2024

AI will save us all, but only if it’s decentralized — SingularityNET CEO

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, singularity

With the recent release of the iPhone 16, which Apple has promised is optimized for artificial intelligence, it’s clear that AI is officially front of mind, once again, for the average consumer. Yet the technology still remains rather limited compared with the vast abilities the most forward-thinking AI technologists anticipate will be achievable in the near future.

As much excitement as there still is around the technology, many still fear the potentially negative consequences of integrating it so deeply into society. One common concern is that a sufficiently advanced AI could determine humanity to be a threat and turn against us all, a scenario imagined in many science fiction stories. However, according to a leading AI researcher, most people’s concerns can be alleviated by decentralizing and democratizing AI’s development.

On Episode 46 of The Agenda podcast, hosts Jonathan DeYoung and Ray Salmond separate fact from fiction by speaking with Ben Goertzel, the computer scientist and researcher who first popularized the term “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI. Goertzel currently serves as the CEO of SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance, where he leads the projects’ efforts to develop the world’s first AGI.

Oct 3, 2024

SoftBank’s Son Envisions AI Running Households in Next Few Years

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son sketched out one of the most aggressive timelines for the adoption of artificial intelligence yet, envisioning a near future where the technology would run entire households.

Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI Announces $6.6 Billion in Funding, Nearly Doubling Valuation to $157 Billion

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Artificial-intelligence tech company OpenAI said it has raised $6.6 billion in new funding, giving it a massive post-money valuation of $157 billion, almost double its previous reported valuation of $80 billion earlier this year.

The new round of funding was led by venture-capital firm Thrive Capital, with additional investors including Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Fidelity, Khosla Ventures, Altimeter Capital, United Arab Emirates-based MGX and Tiger Global. In 2024, OpenAI is projecting a $5 billion net loss on $3.7 billion in revenue, CNBC reported. Next year, the company is targeting $11.6 billion in revenue, per the report.

“We are making progress on our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,” OpenAI said in a statement announcing the funding. “Every week, over 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity and learning. Across industries, businesses are improving productivity and operations, and developers are leveraging our platform to create a new generation of applications. And we’re only getting started.”

Oct 3, 2024

Wave, wind, solar hybrid energy raft can power 1,000 homes daily

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

NoviOcean’s innovative Hybrid Energy Converter combines wave, wind, and solar power, generating double the energy of wind alone.

Oct 2, 2024

Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture

Posted by in category: mathematics

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In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.

Oct 2, 2024

Living with ADHD: how I learned to make distraction work for me

Posted by in category: education

Could better teaching practices make paying attention easier for everyone?

Oct 2, 2024

Denis Noble — Why The Last 80 Years of Biology was Wrong

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, mathematics, robotics/AI

We’re joined by Dr. Denis Noble, Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford, and the father of ‘systems biology’. He is known for his groundbreaking creation of the first mathematical model of the heart’s electrical activity in the 1960s which radically transformed our understanding of the heart.

Dr. Noble’s contributions have revolutionized our understanding of cardiac function and the broader field of biology. His work continues to challenge long-standing biological concepts, including gene-centric views like Neo-Darwinism.

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Oct 2, 2024

Holographic Dark Energy: A New Model for Understanding the Universe’s Expansion

Posted by in categories: cosmology, holograms, quantum physics

Following the accelerated expansion discovery of the Universe, scientists introduced dark energy concepts, which faced issues like the cosmological constant problem.

Researchers at IKBFU developed a holographic dark energy model based on quantum gravity, which views the Universe as a hologram. This model, initially unstable, was refined to treat dark energy as perturbations, stabilizing it. It is now being tested against observational data for accuracy.

Discovery of Accelerated Universe Expansion.

Oct 2, 2024

Metasurface-enhanced camera performs hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A team of US-based researchers has developed an inexpensive and ultrathin metasurface that, when paired with a neural network, enables a conventional camera to capture detailed hyperspectral and polarization data from a single snapshot.


Inexpensive metasurface could revolutionize the capabilities of conventional imaging systems.

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