robotics/AI – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 15 May 2025 02:07:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Langchain-AI/Langgraph-Swarm-Py https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/langchain-ai-langgraph-swarm-py https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/langchain-ai-langgraph-swarm-py#respond Thu, 15 May 2025 02:07:25 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/langchain-ai-langgraph-swarm-py

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Q&A: A generative AI technique for designing RNA with improved function https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/qa-a-generative-ai-technique-for-designing-rna-with-improved-function https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/qa-a-generative-ai-technique-for-designing-rna-with-improved-function#respond Thu, 15 May 2025 02:05:31 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/qa-a-generative-ai-technique-for-designing-rna-with-improved-function

Ribonucleic acid, also called RNA, is a molecule present in all living cells. It plays a critical role in transmitting genetic instructions from DNA and creating proteins. With the power to execute a plethora of functions, the little RNA “messenger” has led to important innovations across therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines, and made us rethink our understanding of life itself.

A team of researchers from Boston University’s Biological Design Center and the Department of Biomedical Engineering recently made significant steps forward in the development of the next generation of computational RNA tools. They recently published a study in Nature Communications describing a generative AI technique for designing different types of RNA molecules with improved function.

Much like a that can be used to compose entirely new texts, the model can compose new RNA sequences tailored for specific tasks in the cell or in a diagnostic assay. Their research has shown that it’s possible to predict and generate RNA sequences that have specific functions across a broad array of potential applications.

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Handy octopus robot can adapt to its surroundings https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/handy-octopus-robot-can-adapt-to-its-surroundings https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/handy-octopus-robot-can-adapt-to-its-surroundings#respond Thu, 15 May 2025 02:04:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/handy-octopus-robot-can-adapt-to-its-surroundings

Scientists inspired by the octopus’s nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its environment.

The team from the University of Bristol’s Faculty of Science and Engineering designed a simple yet smart robot which uses fluid flows of air or water to coordinate suction and movement as octopuses do with hundreds of suckers and multiple arms.

The study, published in the journal Science Robotics, shows how a can use suction flow not just to stick to things, but also to sense its environment and control its own actions—just like an octopus.

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10 Free Artificial Intelligence Books For 2025 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/10-free-artificial-intelligence-books-for-2025 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/10-free-artificial-intelligence-books-for-2025#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 23:26:56 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/10-free-artificial-intelligence-books-for-2025

Are you eager to enhance your artificial intelligence skills? We’ve curated a fantastic selection of free AI books to aid your learning journey!

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🔮 Five charts to understand the Exponential Age https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/%f0%9f%94%ae-five-charts-to-understand-the-exponential-age https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/%f0%9f%94%ae-five-charts-to-understand-the-exponential-age#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 23:26:39 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/%f0%9f%94%ae-five-charts-to-understand-the-exponential-age

We live in extraordinary times.

I’ve been writing about this for the past decade, analysing AI and other exponential technologies and their impact on society. As you get started with Exponential View, I wanted to introduce you first to five charts — depicting key dynamics — to help you understand why the pace of change has increased.

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Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/challenges-to-high-performance-computing-threaten-us-innovation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/challenges-to-high-performance-computing-threaten-us-innovation#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 23:26:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/challenges-to-high-performance-computing-threaten-us-innovation

Today’s supercomputers are enormously powerful, but the work they do − running AI and tackling difficult science − is pushing them to their limits. Building bigger supercomputers won’t be easy.

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One click—and soldiers vanish. No smoke, no mirrors, just cutting-edge tech https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/one-click-and-soldiers-vanish-no-smoke-no-mirrors-just-cutting-edge-tech https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/one-click-and-soldiers-vanish-no-smoke-no-mirrors-just-cutting-edge-tech#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 23:22:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/one-click-and-soldiers-vanish-no-smoke-no-mirrors-just-cutting-edge-tech

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Steering AI: New technique offers more control over large language models https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/steering-ai-new-technique-offers-more-control-over-large-language-models https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/steering-ai-new-technique-offers-more-control-over-large-language-models#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 23:09:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/steering-ai-new-technique-offers-more-control-over-large-language-models

Imagine developing a finer control knob for artificial intelligence (AI) applications like Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT.

Mikhail Belkin, a professor with UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI)—part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS)—has been working with a team that has done just that. Specifically, the researchers have discovered a method that allows for more precise steering and modification of large language models (LLMs)—the powerful AI systems behind tools like Gemini and ChatGPT. Belkin said that this breakthrough could lead to safer, more reliable and more adaptable AI.

The research relies on recent work that has been published in Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Energy and memory: A new neural network paradigm https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/energy-and-memory-a-new-neural-network-paradigm https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/energy-and-memory-a-new-neural-network-paradigm#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 23:09:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/energy-and-memory-a-new-neural-network-paradigm

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations—it’s a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few notes) triggers the memory of the entire pattern (the song), without you actually having to hear the rest of the song again. We use this handy neural mechanism to learn, remember, solve problems and generally navigate our reality.

“It’s a network effect,” said UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering professor Francesco Bullo, explaining that aren’t stored in single brain cells. “Memory storage and are dynamic processes that occur over entire networks of neurons.”

In 1982, physicist John Hopfield translated this theoretical neuroscience concept into the artificial intelligence realm, with the formulation of the Hopfield network. In doing so, not only did he provide a mathematical framework for understanding memory storage and retrieval in the human brain, he also developed one of the first recurrent artificial neural networks—the Hopfield network—known for its ability to retrieve complete patterns from noisy or incomplete inputs. Hopfield won the Nobel Prize for his work in 2024.

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Groups of AI agents spontaneously form their own social norms without human help, study suggests https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/groups-of-ai-agents-spontaneously-form-their-own-social-norms-without-human-help-study-suggests https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/groups-of-ai-agents-spontaneously-form-their-own-social-norms-without-human-help-study-suggests#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 23:06:53 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/groups-of-ai-agents-spontaneously-form-their-own-social-norms-without-human-help-study-suggests

A new study suggests that populations of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, similar to ChatGPT, can spontaneously develop shared social conventions through interaction alone.

The research from City St George’s, University of London and the IT University of Copenhagen suggests that when these large language model (LLM) (AI) agents communicate in groups, they do not just follow scripts or repeat patterns, but self-organize, reaching consensus on linguistic norms much like human communities.

The study, “Emergent Social Conventions and Collective Bias in LLM Populations,” is published in the journal Science Advances.

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