The quest to halt or reverse aging has long captivated human imagination. By 2032, could artificial intelligence (AI) make this aspiration a reality? Futurist Ray Kurzweil, renowned for his forward-thinking predictions, believes so. He envisions a future where AI plays a pivotal role in achieving “longevity escape velocity,” a state where life expectancy increases more than one year per year, effectively outpacing aging.
Advances in brain-computer interfaces enable paralysed users to feel objects in a realistic way via a robotic limb.
The social network company hopes neuroscience will give it an advantage in the AI race.
They may look like beefed up Roombas, but the new 535 and AWD 580L EPOS robotic lawn mowers from Husqvarna leverage the brand’s decades of outdoor power products expertise to deliver commercial-grade capability in an innovative package.
Husqvarna dropped the two new commercial robot lawnmowers at the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show in San Diego this weekend with claims that the new 580L EPOS model, specifically, “furthers Husqvarna’s commitment to providing autonomous solutions and revolutionizing turf management for golf courses, sports fields, and facility maintenance.”
If you’re wondering about that “EPOS” acronym, it stands for Exact Positioning Operating System. It’s a Husqvarna-developed, satellite-based positioning system that enables the robot mowers to work within virtual boundaries instead of relying on physical boundary wires like other (significantly less expensive) models.
On September 20, as part of the TRIADS Speaker Series, philosopher David Chalmers will visit WashU to pose a seemingly straightforward question: “Can ChatGPT Think?”
While Chalmers isn’t in the business of providing a direct “yes” or “no” answer to philosophical quandaries like these, he’s perhaps one of the best-qualified minds to ask the question and unravel its potential implications. Whether in the form of books or TED Talks, Chalmers has grappled with the nature of human consciousness for the better part of three decades. And on a parallel track, he has kept a close eye on the development of artificial intelligence, penning journal articles on the subject and presenting at AI conferences since the early ’90s.
Chalmers, now a New York University Professor of Philosophy and Director of the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, met via Zoom to discuss the marvels and mysteries of ChatGPT, how he uses philosophical questions to gauge the progress of large language models, and his two years spent at Washington University as a postdoctoral fellow.
Posted in biotech/medical, robotics/AI | Leave a Comment on An efficient artificial neural network-based optimization techniques for the early prediction of coronary heart disease: comprehensive analysis
Mondal, S., Maity, R. & Nag, A. Sci Rep 15, 4,827 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85765-x.
Meta FAIR is sharing some of our most recent research and models that support our goal of achieving AMI, and our long-held commitment to sharing open and reproducible science.
Posted in chemistry, nanotechnology, robotics/AI, transportation | Leave a Comment on Self-driving lab for the photochemical synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles with targeted structural and optical properties
The automated synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles with on-demand properties is a challenging task. Here the authors integrate a fluidic reactor, real-time characterization, and machine learning in a self-driven lab for the photochemical synthesis of nanoparticles with targeted properties.
A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products such as ChatGPT. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing their efforts to inexpensively train chatbots and other AI reasoning models.
Corporations such as Google and Microsoft have made clear their intentions to be leaders in the development of chatbots with ever-improving skills. These efforts are notoriously expensive and tend to involve the use of energy-intensive server farms.
More recently, a Chinese company called DeepSeek released an LLM equal in capabilities to those being produced by countries in the West developed at far lower cost. That announcement sent stock prices for many tech companies into a nosedive.
