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May 27, 2017

Automation Could Lead to the World’s Smartest Society

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

The Opportunity of Automation

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” – Dori Lessing in The Golden Notebook.

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May 27, 2017

Now Artificial Intelligence Is Inventing Sounds That Have Never Been Heard Before

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

As well as beating us at board games, driving cars, and spotting cancer, artificial intelligence is now generating brand new sounds that have never been heard before, thanks to some advanced maths combined with samples from real instruments.

Before long, you might hear some of these fresh sounds pumping out of your radio, as the researchers responsible say they’re hoping to give musicians an almost limitless new range of computer-generated instruments to work with.

The new system is called NSynth, and it’s been developed by an engineering team called Google Magenta, a small part of Google’s larger push into artificial intelligence.

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May 27, 2017

Reverse Aging And Live A Longer, Healthier Life With This New High-Tech Tool

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI

Tech world innovator and serial entrepreneur, Naveen Jain, has just launched VIOME, a product that has the potential to forever change the way we look after our health. Riding on the growing awareness in the West that gut health is the foundation for all health, VIOME is a tech product with an artificial intelligence component used towards the in-depth analysis of the gut and metabolic flexibility.

What does that mean? It means that you will know exactly what’s going on in the gut, monitor it quarterly via a simple in-home test, and then employ the recommendations VIOME provides to reach your optimal healthiest living to—ultimately—live a better, longer life free of chronic illness.

But, wait. There’s more.

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May 27, 2017

Robot Lifts And Parks Your Car

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

This robot parks your car for you.

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May 27, 2017

Apple Developing ‘Apple Neural Engine’ Chip to Power AI in iOS Devices

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, robotics/AI, transportation

Apple is developing a dedicated processor that will be used to handle AI-related tasks like facial and speech recognition in its products, reports Bloomberg. Citing a source with knowledge of Apple’s plans, the site says the chip is known internally as the “Apple Neural Engine.”

Apple plans to use the chip, which would work alongside the standard processor and the graphics chip, to add more advanced artificial intelligence capabilities into its devices and to offload demanding AI processing tasks that can impact battery life.

An AI-enabled processor would help Cupertino, California-based Apple integrate more advanced capabilities into devices, particularly cars that drive themselves and gadgets that run augmented reality, the technology that superimposes graphics and other information onto a person’s view of the world.

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May 26, 2017

I, Robot: Japan’s Cyborg Society — By Simon Cox | 1843

Posted by in categories: fun, futurism, robotics/AI

“The Japanese government believes robots and humans can live happily side by side. Our correspondent steps into the shoes of an “immigrant from the future””

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May 26, 2017

Small flying “cars” come a bit closer to reality | The Economist

Posted by in categories: energy, robotics/AI, transportation

“A German firm completes a test, and Uber promises a prototype by 2020″

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May 26, 2017

You’ll Never Take Notes in Class the Same Way Again

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

With advanced artificial intelligence, taking notes in class comes only one push of the button away! — B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder.

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May 25, 2017

Google AI Beats World’s Best Player At This Chinese Board Game

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Artificial Intelligence outsmarted this man at his own game.

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May 24, 2017

New Research Points to a Genetic Switch That Can Let Our Bodies Talk to Electronics

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

  • Our bodies are biologically based and therefore are not equipped to communicate with electronics efficiently. New research could make it possible to genetically engineer our cells to be able to communicate with electronics.
  • The development has the potential to allow us to eventually build apps that autonomously detect and treat disease.

Microelectronics has transformed our lives. Cellphones, earbuds, pacemakers, defibrillators – all these and more rely on microelectronics’ very small electronic designs and components. Microelectronics has changed the way we collect, process and transmit information.

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