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Jul 7, 2024

Meet the presidential hopeful who wants to end death

Posted by in categories: biological, geopolitics, life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism

A new feature story out on book Transhuman Citizen:


A former presidential candidate who believes a dramatic increase in science funding can help humans achieve biological immortality has told Newsweek he is considering a third White House run in 2028.

Zoltan Istvan ran as an independent candidate during the 2016 presidential election when he attracted widespread media attention for driving a bus modified to look like a coffin from San Francisco to Washington D.C., to illustrate his believe that death can be overcome.

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Jul 7, 2024

Star Trek: The Original Series

Posted by in categories: cosmology, robotics/AI, space travel

Androids and the theme of mind uploading what are little girls made of.


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Jul 7, 2024

OpenAI’s GPTBot gets blocked the most, but it’s not the hungriest AI crawler on the web

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

1/ Cloudflare analyzed the most active AI web crawlers on the Internet based on their query volume.


An analysis by Cloudflare shows that Bytespider, Amazonbot, and ClaudeBot are among the most active AI crawlers on the web.

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Jul 7, 2024

Ever put content on the web? Microsoft says that it’s okay for them to steal it because it’s ‘freeware.’

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

Microsoft’s CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.

Jul 7, 2024

The Five Stages Of AI Grief

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Grief-laden vitriol directed at AI fails to help us understand paths to better futures that are neither utopian nor dystopian, but open to radically weird possibilities.

Jul 7, 2024

Glaze — What is Glaze

Posted by in categories: economics, education, habitats, robotics/AI

Generative AI models have changed the way we create and consume content, particularly images and art. Diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion have been trained on large datasets of scraped images from online, many of which are copyrighted, private, or sensitive in subject matter. Many artists have discovered significant numbers of their art pieces in training data such as LAION-5B, without their knowledge, consent, credit or compensation.

To make it worse, many of these models are now used to copy individual artists, through a process called style mimicry. Home users can take art work from human artists, perform “fine-tuning” or LoRA on models like stable diffusion, and end up with a model that is capable of producing arbitrary images in the “style” of the target artist, when evoked with their name as a prompt. Popular independent artists find low quality facsimilies of their artwork online, often with their names still embedded in the metadata from model prompts.

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Jul 7, 2024

Inside The Secret Deals Between Tech Companies And Nuclear Power Plants

Posted by in categories: business, climatology, economics, nuclear energy, robotics/AI

Tech companies, including Amazon Web Services, are striking deals with U.S. nuclear power plants to secure electricity for their data centers, driven by the skyrocketing demands of artificial intelligence. This move promises 24/7 carbon-free power but stirs controversy, as it could divert existing energy supplies, raise prices, and increase reliance on natural gas. These nuclear-powered data centers might accelerate the AI race, but they also spark debates over economic development, grid reliability, and climate goals. Could this be the future of tech or a risky gamble with unforeseen consequences?

As reported by WSJ, tech businesses searching the country for electrical supplies have focused on one important target: America’s nuclear power facilities.

The owners of about one-third of the United States’ nuclear power reactors are in negotiations with technology companies about providing electricity to new data centers needed to satisfy the needs of an artificial intelligence boom.

Jul 7, 2024

Voices of Burt Reynolds, Judy Garland and Other Late Actors Come to Life Thanks to AI

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

Now, you can have almost ‘any text on your phone’ read to you in the voices of legendary actors. But many are disturbed by the idea.

Jul 7, 2024

Chinese researchers develop first open-source brain-on-chip interface system globally

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Chinese researchers have developed an open-source “brain-on-chip” interface system, which is the first of its kind in the world. The system can instruct a robot to avoid obstacles, track, and grasp through “mind control,” the Science and Technology Daily reported on Wednesday.

The interface system was co-developed by research teams from Tianjin University and Southern University of Science and Technology.

The system uses an artificial brain cultivated in vitro – such as a “brain-like organ,” which can interact with external information through encoding, decoding and stimulus-feedback when coupled with electrode chips, according to the report.

Jul 6, 2024

Quicker Than Ever: Breakthrough in Terahertz Technology Promises Faster Data Transfer

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Terahertz technology has the potential to address the growing need for faster data transfer rates, but converting terahertz signals to various lower frequencies remains a challenge. Recently, Japanese researchers have devised a novel approach to both up-and down-convert terahertz signals within a waveguide. This is achieved by dynamically altering the waveguide’s conductivity using light, thereby creating a temporal boundary. Their breakthrough could lead to advancements in optoelectronics and improved telecommunications efficiency.

As we plunge deeper into the Information Age, the demand for faster data transmission keeps soaring, accentuated by fast progress in fields like deep learning and robotics. Against this backdrop, more and more scientists are exploring the potential of using terahertz waves to develop high-speed telecommunication technologies.

However, to use the terahertz band efficiently, we need frequency division multiplexing (FDM) techniques to transmit multiple signals simultaneously. Of course, being able to up-convert or down-convert the frequency of a terahertz signal to another arbitrary frequency is a logical prerequisite to FDM. This has unfortunately proven quite difficult with current technologies. The main issue is that terahertz waves are extremely high-frequency waves from the viewpoint of conventional electronics and very low-energy light in the context of optics, exceeding the capabilities of most devices and configurations across both fields. Therefore, a radically different approach will be needed to overcome current limitations.

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