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Feb 2, 2020
Xenobots — World’s First Living Robots created using Super Computer and Frog Cells
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
A book is made of wood. But it is not a tree. The dead cells have been repurposed to serve another need.
Now a team of scientists has repurposed living cells—scraped from frog embryos—and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. These millimeter-wide “xenobots” can move toward a target, perhaps pick up a payload (like a medicine that needs to be carried to a specific place inside a patient)—and heal themselves after being cut.
Feb 2, 2020
World’s First Classical Chinese Programming Language
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: education, information science, robotics/AI
The world’s first programming language based on classical Chinese is only about a month old, and volunteers have already written dozens of programs with it, such as one based on an ancient Chinese fortune-telling algorithm.
The new language’s developer, Lingdong Huang, previously designed an infinite computer-generated Chinese landscape painting. He also helped create the first and so far only AI-generated Chinese opera. He graduated with a degree in computer science and art from Carnegie Mellon University in December.
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Feb 2, 2020
Fully Autonomous Weapons Pose Unique Dangers to Humankind
Posted by Mike Diverde in category: robotics/AI
I’ve been reading Scientific American for over 40 years, and it’s always giving me a good overview of topics that I’m unfamiliar with. I have come across a few recent articles on the topic of Banning Killer Robots. Here are web links to two excellent articles:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/my-account/login/?s=1
Nations racing to acquire weapons that choose their own targets are ignoring the apocalyptic scenarios that can unfold when rivals catch up.
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Feb 1, 2020
With Google’s Meena, are AI assistants about to get a lot smarter?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Rasa cofounder Alan Nichol weighs in on Meena, Google’s latest attempt at conversational AI, and what it means for the future of AI assistants.
Feb 1, 2020
AI: “The technology is very powerful and potentially very dangerous…”
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: robotics/AI
This article was written by AI
Can you tell?
What are AI applications?
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Feb 1, 2020
Xenobots Have Heart (Cells) — DTNS 3700
Posted by Tanvir Ahmed in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard published early research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about robots made from heart and skin cells derived from frog embryo stem cells that they call xenobots. What does this mean for robotics and what are the ethical issues at play?
Starring tom merritt, sarah lane, len peralta, roger chang, annalee newitz.
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Feb 1, 2020
Hyper-Intelligent AI Hive Mind Claims to Predict Super Bowl Winner
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
Feb 1, 2020
Meet Meena, Google’s new chatbot that interacts like humans
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
Remember the first time you tried Apple’s Siri and went absolutely gaga over the human-like qualities of the application? Well, then came Amazon’s Alexa, a virtual assistant AI that was first available in the Amazon Dot and Amazon Echo Dot speakers but none of these were conversational as such. Although they can answer general questions about the weather and news, it will never feel really conversational.
Google, however, has in store something more conversational than the existing Siri, Alexa and Cortana in the form of its new chat companion, Meena. The company claims that it is going to be the best chatbot in the market that can talk with the user about anything on earth.
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Using digital ai generated medicines plus human on a chip systems you could get new medicines out not in years but hours.
The next generation of MOC design at TissUse aims for a Human-on-a-Chip, increasing the number of interconnected organs toward acceptable organismal complexity. This number of organs is supposed to be efficient to provide human organismal homeostasis, sufficiently flexible for diverse disease modelling and to bear the potential of ultimately replacing animal models for systemic substance testing.