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This AI says it’s conscious and experts are starting to agree. w Elon Musk

Elon Musk and “conscious AI.” Please visit https://brilliant.org/digitalengine — a great place to learn about AI and STEM subjects. You can get started for free and the first 200 people will get 20% off a premium annual subscription.

Thanks to Brilliant for sponsoring this video.

I used GPT-3 and a Synthesia avatar. All answers are by GPT-3 (except the brief joke at the end).

For a deeper drive, I’d recommend the book Life 3.0, by MIT Professor Max Tegmark.

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Finally!! SpaceX Conducts New Starship Hardware Test! — SpaceX Weekly #94

This week at Starbase Booster 10 joins Ship 28 at the launch site to begin its testing on the orbital launch mount, Ship 28 performs a static fire test, and SpaceX shows off its holiday spirit, while over at Cape Canaveral, Starlink launch and recovery operations continue as several tanks and a prefabricated tower section are shipped out to Brownsville.\
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Did OpenAI Secretly Create a Brain-Like Intelligence After All?

Earlier this year, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman sent the tech world into a frenzy with a five-word Reddit post: “AGI has been achieved internally.”

AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence. It’s the holy grail of AI research. Essentially, true AGI would be a brain-like intelligence capable of reasoning, creative thought, and perhaps even consciousness.

Altman posting about achieving AGI was a huge deal — it would be akin in its importance to a top scientist posting “Fusion works,” or Donald Trump posting “I’m not running.”

New carbon material sets energy-storage record, likely to advance supercapacitors

Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material. A supercapacitor made with the new material could store more energy—improving regenerative brakes, power electronics and auxiliary power supplies.

“By combining a data-driven method and our research experience, we created a with enhanced physicochemical and electrochemical properties that pushed the boundary of energy storage for carbon supercapacitors to the next level,” said chemist Tao Wang of ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Wang led the study, titled “Machine-learning-assisted material discovery of oxygen-rich highly active materials for aqueous supercapacitor” and published in Nature Communications, with chemist Sheng Dai of ORNL and UTK.

Brain distributes signals differently before real and imaginary movement: Study

Scientists have established how the activity of our brain during imaginary movement differs from that during real action. It turns out that in both cases, a previous signal occurs in the cerebral cortex, but with an imaginary movement, it does not have a clear link to a specific hemisphere.

The obtained data can potentially be used in to create neuro trainers and control the restoration of neural networks in post-stroke patients. The results of the study are published in the journal Cerebral Cortex.

Before we pick up a pen or put down a cup, a complete picture of this action is formed in the . Such visual– transformations ensure the accuracy of our movements. Knowing about these mechanisms helps patients to restore motor activity after strokes. But we don’t always finish the movement we started. In this case, visual information enters the motor areas of the responsible for movement, but the start of the reaction is blocked at some point, and does not end with real muscle activation.

All-optical object identification and three-dimensional reconstruction based on optical computing metasurface

As object identification and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques become essential in various reverse engineering, artificial intelligence, medical diagnosis, and industrial production fields, there is an increasing focus on seeking vastly efficient, faster speed, and more integrated methods that can simplify processing.

In the current field of object identification and 3D , extracting sample contour information is primarily accomplished by various computer algorithms. Traditional computer processors suffer from multiple constraints, such as high-power consumption, low-speed operation, and complex algorithms. In this regard, there has recently been growing attention in searching for alternative to perform those techniques.

The development of optical computing theory and has provided a more complete theoretical basis for object identification and 3D reconstruction techniques. Optical methods have received more attention as an alternative paradigm than traditional mechanisms in recent years due to their enormous advantages of ultra-fast operation speed, high integration, and low latency.

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