Deputy defense secretary: Russia is preparing for all-robot fighting units.
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Brain implants and robotic hearts: Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan’s technology predictions for 2025
This out from the journalist who was embedded with us on the #ImmortalityBus:
Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan gives IBTimes UK his top five predictions for the year 2025.
Musk, others commit $1 billion to non-profit AI research company to ‘benefit humanity’
(credit: OpenAI)
Elon Musk and associates announced OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company, on Friday (Dec. 11), committing $1 billion toward their goal to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.”
The funding comes from a group of tech leaders including Musk, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, and Amazon Web Services, but the venture expects to only spend “a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.”
Valve’s Controller Factory Is Controlled By Robots
A look at the future of manufacturing: A factory completely controlled by robots. http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh
Robots Are Taking Over Japan
The 21st Robot Exhibition in Japan.
The 21st Robot Exhibition just opened in Japan. It features disaster relief robots, a robot cat, and plenty of the regularly creepy ones, too.
Google’s Verily partners with Johnson & Johnson to develop surgical robots (Wired UK)
Google’s verily Launches New Robotic Surgical Company called Verb Surgical by teaming up with Johnson & Johnson.
The company formerly known as Google Life Sciences is one of the firms behind Verb Surgical Inc, which will develop advanced surgical robots. This promises to be just the first of Verily’s medical and academic partnerships.
MONA: The world’s first Artificial Intelligence Fashion Designer
The world’s first A.I. fashion designer to create infinitely unique clothes inspired by science and technology. All garments’ source code is embedded in the blockchain as a certificate of authenticity. Exclusively sold in bitcoin on the darkweb.
Scientists Create Most Expensive Material on Earth, Costs $4.2 Billion per Ounce
$4.2 billion per ounce. That’s how much the most expensive material on Earth costs. Priced at £100m per gram, the most expensive material on Earth is made up of “endohedral fullerenes,” a cage of carbon atoms containing nitrogen atoms. It could help us make atomic clocks and accurate autonomous cars.
Current atomic clocks are the size of rooms. This material could allow us to make atomic clocks that fit in your smartphone.
Marvin Minsky Reflects on a Life in AI
A founding father of artificial intelligence talks about the great breakthroughs of his early years.