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Oct 4, 2024

Collective Intelligence Manifests in Unconventional Systems | Dr. Michael Levin

Posted by in category: media & arts

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Oct 4, 2024

Protector 101 — Runners

Posted by in categories: entertainment, media & arts

Music by Protector 101 : “Runners” (2011)Video edit by Lueur VerteFootage taken from the movie : Blade Runner (1982)Buy the Album here : http://protector101

Oct 4, 2024

Open-Ended AI: The Key to Superhuman Intelligence?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Prof. Tim Rocktäschel, AI researcher at UCL and Google DeepMind, talks about open-ended AI systems. These systems aim to keep learning and improving on their own, like evolution does in nature.

TOC:
00:00:00 Introduction to Open-Ended AI and Key Concepts.
00:01:37 Tim Rocktäschel’s Background and Research Focus.
00:06:25 Defining Open-Endedness in AI Systems.
00:10:39 Subjective Nature of Interestingness and Learnability.
00:16:22 Open-Endedness in Practice: Examples and Limitations.
00:17:50 Assessing Novelty in Open-ended AI Systems.
00:20:05 Adversarial Attacks and AI Robustness.
00:24:05 Rainbow Teaming and LLM Safety.
00:25:48 Open-ended Research Approaches in AI
00:29:05 Balancing Long-term Vision and Exploration in AI Research.
00:37:25 LLMs in Program Synthesis and Open-Ended Learning.
00:37:55 Transition from Human-Based to Novel AI Strategies.
00:39:00 Expanding Context Windows and Prompt Evolution.
00:40:17 AI Intelligibility and Human-AI Interfaces.
00:46:04 Self-Improvement and Evolution in AI Systems.

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Oct 4, 2024

Who is Heman Bekele, the Teenage Scientist Making Big Headlines?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

What would you say if someone told you that skin cancer could be cured by using a bar of soap?


Ethiopia-born Heman Bekele is on TIME’s latest cover as the 2024 Kid of the Year.

Oct 4, 2024

Carbon Fiber Structural Battery Paves way for Light, Energy-Efficient Vehicles

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation

When cars, planes, ships or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are radically reduced. A research group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is now presenting a world-leading advance in so-called massless energy storage — a structural battery that could halve the weight of a laptop, make the mobile phone as thin as a credit card or increase the driving range of an electric car by up to 70% on a single charge.

“We have succeeded in creating a battery made of carbon fiber composite that is as stiff as aluminum and energy-dense enough to be used commercially. Just like a human skeleton, the battery has several functions at the same time,” says Chalmers researcher Richa Chaudhary, who is the first author of an article recently published in Advanced Materials.

Research on structural batteries has been going on for many years at Chalmers, and in some stages also together with researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. When Professor Leif Asp and colleagues published their first results in 2018 on how stiff, strong carbon fibers could store electrical energy chemically, the advance attracted massive attention.

Oct 4, 2024

A Janus Adhesive Hydrogel with Integrated Attack and Defense for Bacteria Killing and Antifouling

Posted by in category: materials

JUST PUBLISHED: A Janus Adhesive Hydrogel with Integrated Attack and Defense for Bacteria Killing and Antifouling.

Oct 4, 2024

Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, life extension

In most vertebrates, a pattern of chemical marks on the genome is a reliable indicator of age, but in axolotls this clock seems to stop after the first four years of life.

By Claire Ainsworth

Oct 4, 2024

Big-battery storage capacity could increase fivefold in Germany by 2026

Posted by in category: futurism

Industry body the Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft (BSW-Solar) expects around 7 GWh of large-scale battery storage to be added during that period.

Oct 4, 2024

These physicists say they know what’s inside a black hole

Posted by in categories: cosmology, open access, quantum physics

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Physicists are obsessed with black holes, but we still don’t know what’s going on inside of them. One idea is that black holes do not truly exist, but instead they are big quantum objects that have been called fuzzballs or frozen stars. This idea has a big problem. Let’s take a look.

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Oct 4, 2024

Quantum reference frames from top-down crossed products

Posted by in category: quantum physics

All physical observations are made relative to a reference frame, which is a system in its own right. If the system of interest admits a group symmetry, the reference frame observing it must transform commensurately under the group to ensure the covariance of the combined system. We point out that the crossed product is a way to realize quantum reference frames from the bottom-up; adjoining a quantum reference frame and imposing constraints generates a crossed product algebra. We provide a top-down specification of crossed product algebras and show that one cannot obtain inequivalent quantum reference frames using this approach. As a remedy, we define an abstract algebra associated to the system and symmetry group built out of relational crossed product algebras associated with different choices of quantum reference frames.

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