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Nov 5, 2016
AI takeover: Google’s ‘DeepMind’ platform can learn and think on it’s own without human input
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: information science, robotics/AI
AI good for internal back office and some limited front office activities; however, still need to see more adoption of QC in the Net and infrastructure in companies to expose their services and information to the public net & infrastructure.
Deep learning, as explained by tech journalist Michael Copeland on Blogs.nvidia.com, is the newest and most powerful computational development thus far. It combines all prior research in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. At its most fundamental level, Copeland explains, deep learning uses algorithms to peruse massive amounts of data, and then learn from that data to make decisions or predictions. The Defense Agency Advanced Project Research (DARPA), as Wired reports, calls this method “probabilistic programming.”
Nov 5, 2016
Can you make a material that doesn’t react to heat? USC research team thinks so, and is proving it
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, neuroscience, security
Nov 5, 2016
DARPA Ups Funding For Autonomous Electronic Warfare Work « Breaking Defense
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, robotics/AI
This is what scares me; autonomous warfare.
WASHINGTON: DARPA is taking another step toward building autonomous electronic warfare systems with a small contract award to BAE Systems.
Artificial intelligence and autonomy loom large in the Pentagon these days. And electronic warfare, much more quietly, dominates a great deal of thinking across the services these days after we’ve watched how the Russians operate against Ukraine and in Syria. So DARPA’s additional $13.3 million award announced today is worth noting.
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Nov 5, 2016
DARPA Aims to Create Armies of ‘Insect Allies’ to Protect Crops Worldwide
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, food
A new DARPA program is poised to provide an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response, using targeted gene therapy to protect mature plants within a single growing season.
DARPA proposes to use a natural and very efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants; insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit.
In the process, DARPA aims to transform certain insect pests into “Insect Allies,” the name of the new program.
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Nov 5, 2016
I-Team: Nuclear reactor test in Nevada could make a Mars trip reality
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: nuclear energy, space
This story may sound like the plot of a science-fiction movie.
Next year, a team of top scientists will hunker down inside a classified facility in the Nevada desert so they can experiment with a piece of advanced technology.
The test will focus on a small nuclear reactor and if it works as planned, it could be a huge step toward putting humans on Mars.
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Nov 5, 2016
Co-discover of Metallic Hydrogen wrote paper on metallic hydrogen for rockets
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: particle physics, space travel
On October 5th 2016, Ranga Dias and Isaac F. Silvera of Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University released the first experimental evidence that solid metallic hydrogen has been synthesized in the laboratory.
It took 495 GPa pressure to create. The sample is being held in the cryostat in liquid nitrogen.
Atomic metallic hydrogen, if metastable at ambient pressure and temperature could be used as the most powerful chemical rocket fuel, as the atoms recombine to form molecular hydrogen. This light-weight high-energy density material would revolutionize rocketry, allowing single-stage rockets to enter orbit and chemically fueled rockets to explore our solar system. To transform solid molecular hydrogen to metallic hydrogen requires extreme high pressures.
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Nov 5, 2016
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: sustainability
Nov 5, 2016
Technique reveals the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classifications. A neural net might, for instance, be trained to recognize certain objects in digital images or to infer the topics of texts.
But neural nets are black boxes. After training, a network may be very good at classifying data, but even its creators will have no idea why. With visual data, it’s sometimes possible to automate experiments that determine which visual features a neural net is responding to. But text-processing systems tend to be more opaque.
At the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will present a new way to train neural networks so that they provide not only predictions and classifications but rationales for their decisions.
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