Dec 2, 2022
Your microbiome ages as you do—and that’s a problem
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
Our guts are home to a complex ecosystem of bacteria. Can we tweak it to stay healthy as we age?
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A simple design overcomes a substantial limitation on the potential applications for coherent perfect absorbers.
Dec 1, 2022
A man fell down from a cruise ship and survived for 15 hours at sea
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
He survived despite hypothermia.
On Thanksgiving that we left behind, a miracle happened. A 28-year-old man fell from one of Carnival’s cruise ships and went missing in the Gulf of Mexico. He was rescued after “15 hours.”
He was rescued 20 miles south of Southwest Pass.
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Dec 1, 2022
A small tweak to genes may finally enable us to regrow cartilage
Posted by Robin Indeededo in category: futurism
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The study was published in Science Advances today. Takamitsu Maruyama, Daigaku Hasegawa, senior author Wei Hsu, and others reveal two ground-breaking discoveries, including a new understanding of the multifaceted protein-catenin.
Dec 1, 2022
SUPERCUT: Neuralink Show & Tell Event (23 Minutes)
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Neura Pod is a series covering topics related to Neuralink, Inc. Topics such as brain-machine interfaces, brain injuries, and artificial intelligence will be explored. Host Ryan Tanaka synthesizes informationopinions, and conducts interviews to easily learn about Neuralink and its future.
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ryantanaka3/
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Dec 1, 2022
Thought Experiment: What Major Decisions Would You Trust An Artificial Intelligence To Make For You?
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
This video is a thought experiment about artificial intelligence, the choices we make, and how much (or how little) we’ll delegate such choices in the future.
The stock footage used in this video comes courtesy of various free stock footage channels on YouTube and through Creative Commons.
Dec 1, 2022
CROCCP2 acts as a human-specific modifier of cilia dynamics and mTOR signaling to promote expansion of cortical progenitors
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Van Heurck et al. identify CROCCP2, a hominid-specific gene duplicate, as a human-specific modifier of neurogenesis in the developing cerebral cortex. They find that CROCCP2 is necessary and sufficient to enhance human cortical progenitor amplification and acts by decreasing primary cilia dynamics and enhancing the mTOR pathway.
Dec 1, 2022
A futurist sets the stage for the next 1,000 years
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: Elon Musk, futurism
Dec 1, 2022
Urban foxes self-evolve, exhibiting Darwin’s domestication syndrome
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: evolution, futurism
Dec 1, 2022
‘Common Sense’ Test Could Lead to Smarter AI
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
The goal of achieving what is called artificial general intelligence — or the capacity of an engineered system to display human-like general intelligence — is still some time off into the future. Nevertheless, experts in the field of AI have no doubt accomplished some major milestones along the way, including developing AI capable of deep neural reasoning, tactile reasoning, and even AI with rudimentary social skills.
Now, in yet another step toward AI with more human-like intelligence, researchers from IBM, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have developed a series of tests that would evaluate an AI’s ability to use a machine version of “common sense” — or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge in a manner that is shared by nearly all humans.
