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Feb 13, 2016

Brenau aiming to make off-site students more connected through robot computers

Posted by in categories: computing, education, robotics/AI

This is a excellent use for the robots.


Brenau University students will soon be able to “be in the classroom” even from remote locations thanks to robots the school will be using.

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Feb 13, 2016

Artificial intelligence will allow people to find lasting love with machines

Posted by in categories: computing, robotics/AI

Computer scientists say as cloud computing allows machines to become more life-like, robots may become the ‘perfect companion’ and people may even go to court in a bid to marry their robots.

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Feb 12, 2016

Using stories to teach human values to artificial agents

Posted by in categories: computing, ethics, robotics/AI

DARPA’s efforts to teach AI “Empathy & Ethics”


The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised fears about whether robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are calling for bans on robotics research; others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be constrained. But how can robots learn ethical behavior if there is no “user manual” for being human?

Researchers Mark Riedl and Brent Harrison from the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology believe the answer lies in “Quixote” — to be unveiled at the AAAI-16 Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. (Feb. 12 — 17, 2016). Quixote teaches “value alignment” to robots by training them to read stories, learn acceptable sequences of events and understand successful ways to behave in human societies.

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Feb 12, 2016

New computer chip could make artificial intelligence mobile

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The new mobile AI Chip.


MIT researchers have designed a computer chip that will be able to power a truly mobile artificial intelligence device.

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Feb 12, 2016

Super-fast 10TB Intel SSDs could be on the horizon thanks to new Micron chips

Posted by in categories: computing, electronics

Intel’s solid-state drives could be poised for a big jump in capacity and speed with new 3D flash chips coming from Micron.

Micron, which makes the flash in Intel’s SSDs, has started volume shipments of its 3D NAND flash chips. The chips could lead to SSDs the size of a pack of gum with more than 3.5TB of storage and standard 2.5-inch SSDs with capacities greater than 10TB.

SSDs have been advancing in capacity and durability. Fixstars last month shipped a 13TB SSD, which is priced at about $1 per gigabyte, or $13,000. This year, SanDisk plans to ship 6TB and 8TB SSDs, while Samsung is aiming to release a 4TB SSD.

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Feb 12, 2016

$15 Super Computer

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Pine A64


Meet the $15 super computer that’s the size of an iPhone.

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Feb 11, 2016

Collaborative Minds Bringing Sounds to Brain Data in Yearlong Project

Posted by in categories: computing, life extension, neuroscience

Very huge step forward for brain sensory mapping.


Data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have provided eye-popping pictures of the way the brain is wired, and allowed neuroscientists and laypeople alike to view intricate anatomical and functional connections between regions of the brain. But what if a new tool could be applied to MRI and other data, to listen to the way the brain works and how it is forged with connections?

An emerging effort to “sonify” imaging data is taking root at UT Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity, in the lab of Dr. Gagan Wig. The approach, now funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), allows data to be represented by sounds from which a trained listener might be able to discern patterns of brain connectivity not readily seen in available visualization strategies.

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Feb 11, 2016

Apple knifes Samsung

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Not good at all.


Puts all 10nm eggs in TSMC’s basket

Fruity cargo cult Apple has turned on its partner Samsung and given the contract to produce 10-nano application processors (AP) to TSMC.

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Feb 11, 2016

Photon-Based Heat Transport May Advance Quantum Computing

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

More advancement in Quantum Computing — researchers in Finland have found a way to keep the processor chip cooled without causing disrupting computer operations which has been a big challenge for Quantum Chips.


AALTO, Finland, Feb. 11, 2016 — A thermal-transport method that uses photons as carriers has been demonstrated over 1-m distances. The fundamental advance in heat conduction could drive the development of quantum computers.

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Feb 11, 2016

Tech Ethics (And Where They’re Lacking)

Posted by in categories: computing, ethics, habitats, robotics/AI

The late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said, “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more and more advanced, can the same statement apply to computers?

According to many technology moguls and policymakers, the answer is this: We’re not quite there yet.

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