The problem is not that today’s A.I. needs to get better at what it does. The problem is that today’s A.I. needs to try to do something completely different.
Computer systems need to understand time, space and causality. Right now they don’t.
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Stunning 1st image of Black Hole
Yesterday (Sep 5, 2019), the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded $21.6 million US dollars to the scientists behind a stunning achievement. They imaged a black hole. Although the image was announced and released 5 months ago, the story is still unfolding.
Yesterday (Sep 5, 2019), the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded $21.6 million US dollars to the scientists behind a stunning achievement. They imaged a black hole. Although the image was announced and released 5 months ago, the story is still unfolding.
The Breakthrough Prize is funded by Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner. It is the highest-paying science prize for researchers in life science, math, and physics.
A Siberian Meteorite Revealed a New Mineral We’ve Never Seen Before on Earth
Circa 2018
When gold hunters in Russia collected the yellowish stone in 2016, they thought it might contain a precious metal. It didn’t — but what it did contain was far more rare and valuable.
The rock had come from space, and it contained a new, never-before-seen mineral.
It has yet to be officially documented, but scientists have named it uakitite, after the Uakit region in Siberia where the meteorite fell.
