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Using body parts from simple animals in robotics is not as controversial. But it’s still important to consider the impact on these living creatures. It may seem that bugs and jellyfish and mollusks aren’t capable of caring about how we use their bodies. But what if we’re wrong about that? Some researchers are finding that such creatures might have more awareness and feelings than expected.

Living robots also interact with the environment. What if a jellyfish outfitted with electronics got eaten? Xu is hoping to develop biodegradable electronics that wouldn’t harm other animals or pollute the ocean.

Biohybrid robots blur the line between machine and living thing. The jellyfish cyborgs are obviously still alive. But most biohybrids don’t really fit into one category or the other. Shin says of her heart-cell-covered bot: “it’s not a creature.” But it’s not a typical robot, either.

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“Nanobrain: The Making of an Artificial Brain from a Time Crystal” by Anirban Bandyopadhyay Book Link: https://amzn.to/3QQ4s44

The hosts discuss the book “Nanobrain” by Anirban Bandyopadhyay, an in-depth exploration of a nanobrain, an artificial brain built on the principles of fractal geometry and prime numbers, which claims to mimic human thought. It introduces Prime Phase Metric (PPM) which expands time crystals from natural events, and Geometric Musical Language (GML) which assigns fifteen primes to letters, similar to the English alphabet, and how the combination is consciousness-centric. The document contrasts this artificial brain’s functioning with traditional Turing machines and quantum computing, emphasizing its unique approach to data processing and decision-making and self-learning, and discusses its potential limitations and advantages. It investigates the use of time crystals, dynamic geometric shapes, and fractal mechanics, and the role that they may have in memory and learning in this new computer. Finally, the work explores the philosophical implications of such a machine, including its potential for achieving consciousness and the idea of recreating nature through a non-computational paradigm, such as modeling a new type of robot.

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In today’s AI news, Crunchbase, long known as a go-to platform for company data, has relaunched as an AI-powered solution, revolutionizing how investors, founders, and innovators gain insights into private companies. Moving beyond historical data, the new Crunchbase introduces live, predictive intelligence, providing a real-time, forward-looking view of the market. Users can now anticipate funding rounds, acquisitions, and even IPO’s.

In other advancements, EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company that builds eco-friendly data centers used by major compute providers to handle their AI traffic, has raised nearly half a billion dollars — $478 million (€450 million) to be exact — in anticipation of more demand. The equity funding, which is coming from a group of unnamed institutional investors, will be used to continue developing new technologies for more “green” data centers.

Meanwhile, we still didn’t get a straight-up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile World Congress fireside chat in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Sierra founder and OpenAI board chair preferred to sidestep CNN moderator Anna Stewart’s question asking how “agentic AI” is “any different to a GenAI chatbot” by suggesting everyone hates the former but is delighted by the “empathetic” responses AI agents can serve up.

And, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence, also known as AGI. The paper, titled “Superintelligence Strategy,” asserts that an aggressive bid by the U.S. to exclusively control superintelligent AI systems could prompt fierce retaliation from China.

In videos, as we join this episode of the Lightcone podcast we find CEO, Garry Tan and the team talking about how Andrej Karpathy recently coined the term “vibe coding” to describe how LLMs are getting so good that devs can simply “give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” They dive into this new way of programming and what it means for builders in the age of AI.

S Matthew Miller at Bloomberg Invest.” + And, “there are no authorities in science,” says A.M. Turing Award winner Richard S. Sutton. In this exclusive conversation, Amii Chief Scientific Advisor Richard S. Sutton and Amii CEO Cam Linke discuss the breakthroughs that shaped Reinforcement Learning, the journey to this moment, and what’s next for the future of artificial intelligence.

We close out with, learning to use LangGraph, JavaScript, and tools like Next.js and wxflows, from IBM’s Roy Derks, to automate transcription. Discover how to integrate open-source models like Ollama to power your AI agent.

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YouTube warns that scammers are using an AI-generated video featuring the company’s CEO in phishing attacks to steal creators’ credentials.

The attackers are sharing it as a private video with targeted users via emails claiming YouTube is changing its monetization policy.

“We’re aware that phishers have been sharing private videos to send false videos, including an AI generated video of YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan announcing changes in monetization,” the online video sharing platform warned in a pinned post on its official community website.

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The AI revolution is happening faster than experts ever predicted — and we’ve hit the turning point.

The long-debated arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) may be closer than we think, with some experts suggesting we could reach the technological singularity within the next year.

A new analysis of nearly 8,600 expert predictions reveals shifting timelines, particularly since the rise of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. While previous estimates placed AGI’s emergence around 2060, recent advancements have led many to revise their forecasts to as early as 2030.

Some industry leaders, however, believe AGI’s arrival is imminent, and with the rapid progression of computing power and potential breakthroughs in quantum computing, we may soon see machines capable of surpassing human intelligence.

Despite the excitement, skepticism remains. Some researchers argue that intelligence is more than just computational power, encompassing emotional, social, and existential dimensions that machines may never fully replicate. Others question whether AI, no matter how advanced, can independently drive scientific discoveries or simply act as an accelerator for human innovation. While the exact timeline for AGI remains uncertain, one thing is clear: humanity is on the brink of an AI-driven transformation, and the choices we make now will determine whether this future benefits or disrupts society.

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OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue. But that’s not the only application the AI firm is hoping will make big bucks. If you saw our story last month detailing OpenAI’s financial projections, you might have noticed an intriguing reference…

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In today’s AI news, CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 Billion on the transaction. Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25 Billion in 2023. The acquisition extends CoreWeave’s purpose-built cloud platform by enabling an end-to-end experience for customers, enhancing functionality for the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises to build, tune and deploy AI applications.

S Turing Award — often called the Nobel Prize of computer science — is going to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the pioneers of a key approach that underlies much of today Then, a team of researchers at Zoom has developed a breakthrough technique that could dramatically reduce the cost and computational resources needed for AI systems to tackle complex reasoning problems, Chain of draft (CoD), enables large language models (LLMs) to solve problems with minimal words — using as little as 7.6% of the text required by current methods while maintaining or even improving accuracy.

And soon, all businesses will be able to use Meta’s AI to power live, 24/7 customer service that can interact with customers on behalf of businesses on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Meta announced advancements in business AI—including the customer service AI agent that will make purchases and can respond to voice prompts from a user.

In videos, say goodbye to manual contract processing! IBM’s Brandon Swink explores how Generative AI, ECM, and Orchestration Hubs streamline document management and improve efficiency. Discover how these technologies transform your approach to complex documents.

And, in this episode of Top of Mind, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Daryl Plummer explores the emerging world of guardian agents — AI designed to monitor other AI. Learn how guardian agents will become critical for organizations deploying AI agents for quality control, system observation and security from rogue AI behavior.

Then, how far are we from a true one-person unicorn and what does this mean for the future of employment and capital? Panelists Benjamine Liu, Kanjun Qiu, Dan Murphy, Mitchell Green, Sarah Franklin, and Richard Socher discuss this engaging topic during the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.

S Julia Boorstin sitting down Clara Shih, Meta Thats all for today, but AI is moving fast — like, comment, follow, and subscribe for more Neural News!

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In today’s AI news, CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 Billion on the transaction. Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25 Billion in 2023. The acquisition extends CoreWeave’s purpose-built cloud platform by enabling an end-to-end experience for customers, enhancing functionality for the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises to build, tune and deploy AI applications.

S Turing Award — often called the Nobel Prize of computer science — is going to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the pioneers of a key approach that underlies much of today Then, a team of researchers at Zoom has developed a breakthrough technique that could dramatically reduce the cost and computational resources needed for AI systems to tackle complex reasoning problems, Chain of draft (CoD), enables large language models (LLMs) to solve problems with minimal words — using as little as 7.6% of the text required by current methods while maintaining or even improving accuracy.

And soon, all businesses will be able to use Meta’s AI to power live, 24/7 customer service that can interact with customers on behalf of businesses on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Meta announced advancements in business AI—including the customer service AI agent that will make purchases and can respond to voice prompts from a user.

In videos, say goodbye to manual contract processing! IBM’s Brandon Swink explores how Generative AI, ECM, and Orchestration Hubs streamline document management and improve efficiency. Discover how these technologies transform your approach to complex documents.

And, in this episode of Top of Mind, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Daryl Plummer explores the emerging world of guardian agents — AI designed to monitor other AI. Learn how guardian agents will become critical for organizations deploying AI agents for quality control, system observation and security from rogue AI behavior.

Then, how far are we from a true one-person unicorn and what does this mean for the future of employment and capital? Panelists Benjamine Liu, Kanjun Qiu, Dan Murphy, Mitchell Green, Sarah Franklin, and Richard Socher discuss this engaging topic during the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.

S Julia Boorstin sitting down Clara Shih, Meta Thats all for today, but AI is moving fast — like, comment, follow, and subscribe for more Neural News!.7 Billion” | >

Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, multi-agent systems, and the philosophy of mind.

Links of interest:

• http://bach.ai/
• https://twitter.com/Plinz.

Steve and Joscha discuss:

00:00 Introduction.
01:26 Growing up in the forest in East Germany.
06:23 Academia: early neural net pioneers, CS and Philosophy.
10:17 The fall of the Berlin Wall.
14:57 Commodore 64 and early programming experiences.
15:29 AGI timeline and predictions.
19:35 Scaling hypothesis, beyond Transformers, universality of information structures and world models.
25:29 Consciousness.
41:11 The ethics of brain interventions, zombies, and the Turing test.
43:43 LLMs and simulated phenomenology.
46:34 The future of consciousness research.
48:44 Cultural perspectives on suffering.
52:19 AGI and humanity’s future.
58:18 Simulation hypothesis.
01:03:33 Liquid AI: Innovations and goals.
01:16:02 Philosophy of Identity: the Transporter Problem, Is there anything beyond memory records?

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Ray Kurzweil, who used to be a computer scientist at Google, is no stranger to accurate predictions. With an impressive track record, he foresaw consumers designing their own clothes from home computers by 1999 and the world’s best chess player losing to a computer by 2000. He had also predicted the widespread use of portable computers in various shapes and sizes by 2009.

His groundbreaking forecasts have consistently inspired people to push the boundaries of what is possible. Ray Kurzweil has so far made 147 predictions with 86% accuracy and has the world looking forward to the new ones with much anticipation. For his remarkable contributions and insight, the visionary was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Technology in 1999. He was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022.

The renowned futurist predicts that AI will surpass human intelligence and pass the Turing test by 2029. And that by 2045, humans will merge with the artificial intelligence we’ve created, a phenomenon he calls ‘The Singularity.’ He believes this would exponentially amplify our intelligence, creating unparalleled opportunities for innovation and progress.

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