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Oct 6, 2016
Meet the 2016 presidential candidate who believes humans will eventually live forever
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: cyborgs, economics, geopolitics, governance, law, life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Circa News, a millennial site, did a story on transhumanism and my campaign. There are 3 videos embedded into this article (a general one on transhumanism, one on using tech to help the environment, and one on a Universal Basic Income):
WATCH | Zoltan Istvan thinks all sentient beings — including, but not limited to humans, artificial intelligence and cyborgs — have the right to be immortal. And that right should be protected under law.
Which is why, naturally, he decided to run for president of the United States.
Oct 5, 2016
New Shock-Absorbing Material Could Help Robots Take a Real Beating
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: materials, robotics/AI
The technique involves embedding different levels of solid and liquid in order to customize the elasticity. Adding more liquid makes the material softer and more elastic. This technique allows the printer to exactly customize the elasticity of the print, and even of different areas within the print.
These programmable materials can help reduce wear and tear on moving parts by damping shocks and reducing vibrations. They can also help make robots easier to control by making movements more precise. This method could even have other applications such as in shock-absorbing running shoes and headgear.
Source: MIT News
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Oct 5, 2016
DARPA chief Arati Prabhakar on self-driving ships, space travel, IoT, genetics, and more
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, genetics, internet, robotics/AI, space travel
The Internet of Things so widely predicted as the Next Big Thing in computing is full of promise but presents a correspondingly large vulnerability to cyber attacks, said Arati Prabhakar, director of DARPA, at the 2016 GeekWire Summit in Seattle today.
IoT offers “a huge value, but then with every advance comes more attack surface,” said Prabhakar during an interview with Alan Boyle, GeekWire’s aerospace and science editor. “Provably secure embedded systems is part of the answer.”
Oct 5, 2016
Russia develops incredible new ‘humanoid’ robot tank dubbed ‘The Specialist’ which can rescue injured soldiers from battlefield
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Oct 5, 2016
At the bleeding edge of AI: Quantum grocery picking and transfer learning
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
Digitising Business —
At the bleeding edge of AI: Quantum grocery picking and transfer learning.
Computer vision, neural nets, and deep learning are hot topics at UK R&D centres.
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Oct 5, 2016
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to designers of molecular motors
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to scientists based in the US, France, and the Netherlands for breakthroughs in designing molecular machines that can carry out tasks— and even mimic a four-wheel-drive car — when given a jolt of energy.
Winners J. Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, and Bernard L. Feringa discovered how to build tiny motors — 1,000 times thinner than a strand of hair.
The machinery includes rings on axles, spinning blades, and even unimaginably small creations consisting of only a few molecules that can lift themselves off a surface like tiny robots rising on tip-toe. Those molecular robots can pluck, grasp, and connect individual amino acids. The machines can also be used as a novel mechanism of drug delivery.
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Oct 5, 2016
Robot surgeons and artificial life: the promise of tiny machines
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Oct 5, 2016
Forget the robocalypse— ‘Homo connecticus’ may be what’s coming
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
This new species will coexist peacefully with humans, one Turing Award winner says…
Robots’ potential to take over the world is a commonly expressed fear in the world of AI, but at least one Turing Award winner doesn’t see it happening that way. Rather than replacing mankind, technology will create a new kind of human that will coexist with its predecessors while taking advantage of new tech-enabled tools.
So argued Raj Reddy, former founding director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and 1994 winner of the Turing Award, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany last week.
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Oct 5, 2016
Watch a Quantum Computing Expert Describe How the World’s About to Change
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2q4z6HnB-Tg
This type of computer not really 4 personal use. Because it calculates in every possible way its task in a fraction of second. I belive that this type of computer is built to run ai. Or to run recognition software just to give example. But just imagine the possibilities.
Quantum physics, with its descriptions of bizarre properties like entanglement and superposition, can sound like a science fiction fever dream. Yet this branch of physics, no matter how counterintuitive it seems sometimes, describes the universe all around us: As physicists have told often told me, we live in a quantum world. Soon, this will be better reflected in our technology, and everything it can do.
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