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Is humanity on the verge of its greatest journey? Scientists are working on an ambitious plan to send a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, our closest star system, within a human lifetime. Using cutting-edge technology like light sails, laser propulsion, and AI-driven navigation, this project could redefine space exploration forever. How will we overcome the challenges of interstellar travel? Could this be our first step toward colonizing other star systems? Let’s dive into the science, the possibilities, and the future of humanity beyond our solar system!

🔹 How can we travel to Alpha Centauri in just 40 years?
🔹 Breakthrough Starshot: The project aiming for interstellar speeds.
🔹 The science behind light sails & laser propulsion.
🔹 Challenges of deep-space communication & survival.
🔹 What happens if we actually reach another star?

🚀 Join us as we explore the next giant leap for humanity!

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Students participate in an AI after-school program in Edo, Nigeria. Copyright: SmartEdge/World Bank

“AI helps us to learn, it can serve as a tutor, it can be anything you want it to be, depending on the prompt you write,” says Omorogbe Uyiosa, known as “Uyi” by his friends, a student from the Edo Boys High School, in Benin City, Nigeria. His school was one of the beneficiaries of a pilot that used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support learning through an after-school program.

A few months ago, we wrote a blog with some of the lessons from the implementation of this innovative program, including a video with voices from beneficiaries, such as Uyi. Back then, we promised that, if you stayed tuned, we would get back with the results of the pilot, which included an impact evaluation. So here we are with three primary findings from the pilot!

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In today’s AI news, OpenAI is announcing a new AI Agent designed to help people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science, policy, and engineering and need thorough, precise, and reliable research. It could also be useful for anyone making major purchases.

In what most would consider a halcyon time for AI, an anachronistic source has just added their two cents to the ethos around the AI revolution. The Vatican released a significant broadside addressing the potential and risks of AI in a new high-tech world. It’s a very interesting look at these new technologies, with a focus on human worth and human dignity.

In other advances, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept. Cheap on-demand AI compute, remote collaboration, payment processing APIs, social media, and e-commerce marketplaces have all made it easier to “go it alone” as an entrepreneur. But what about scaling that business into something meatier — a one-person Unicorn.

And, this morning, Brussels announced plans to develop an open source AI model of its own, with $56 million in funding to do it. The investment will fund top researchers from a handful of companies and universities across EU countries as they develop a large language model that can work with the trading bloc’s 30 languages.

In videos, Lex Fridman speaks with Dylan Patel, Founder of SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor research and analysis company, and Nathan Lambert, a research scientist at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and author of an AI blog called Interconnects. They all discuss DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters.

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Link to paper: 10.1038/s41598-022–24543-5

Programmable matter can change its shape, stiffness or other physical properties upon command. Previous work has shown contactless optically controlled matter or magnetic actuation, but the former is limited in strength and the latter in spatial resolution. Here, we show an unprecedented level of control combining light patterns and magnetic fields. A mixture of thermoplastic and ferromagnetic powder is heated up at specific locations that become malleable and are attracted by magnetic fields. These heated areas solidify on cool down, and the process can be repeated. We show complex control of 3D slabs, 2D sheets, and 1D filaments with applications in tactile displays and object manipulation. Due to the low transition temperature and the possibility of using microwave heating, the compound can be manipulated in air, water, or inside biological tissue having the potential to revolutionize biomedical devices, robotics or display technologies.

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Can a machine feel love, hate or grief? How do we write our laws around A.I.? Would you let an algorithm run the government? Watch my newest video where I attempt to answer these questions while introducing the concept of artificial Intelligence philosophy: an area of study that could take on these, and other mind-boggling questions in the future.

Notes and References.
[1] https://www.humanetech.com/who-we-are.
[2] https://brie.berkele y.edu/sites/default/files/brie_wp_2018-3.pdf.
[3] Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains.
[4] https://2020.yang2020.com/policies/th…

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Biopunk androids replicants.

What happens when humans begin combining biology with technology, harnessing the power to recode life itself.

What does the future of biotechnology and genetic engineering look like? How will humans program biology to create organ farm technology and bio-robots. And what happens when companies begin investing in advanced bio-printing, artificial wombs, and cybernetic prosthetic limbs.

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Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data-and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown.

As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight and water,” Heritable wrote.

Yet agriculture puts a massive strain on the planet and its resources, accounting for around 25% of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions. It’s the planet’s largest consumer of groundwater and can lead to soil erosion and water pollution via pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals.

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A new startup in Canada wants to build the first “conscious” artificial intelligence using quantum computing. What’s their definition of consciousness? Well, it’s based on Roger Penrose’s ideas about consciousness, ORCH-OR. I find this rather confusing because Penrose thinks that consciousness is not computable, so how are we now going to compute it?

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