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Elon Musk has donated millions to the Future of Life Institute, and now the organization is putting that money to use by funding research into keeping artificial intelligence “robust and…
Would We Get Bionic Limbs?
Posted in cyborgs, humor, transhumanism
Say hello to the future of communication.…. FTL communication, possibly! (not to mention quantum computing, etc etc etc)
Which just goes to show that you should never buy ANY form of robotics or AI software from a company that has any of the following words in it’s name: Sky, Net, Skynet, Cyberdine, and or Extermination. wink
“To understand how AR wearables affect the way a typical person perceives the world, we considered various natural impairments to vision.…A poorly designed AR interface could interfere with vision to the same degree as these diseases.” Read more
When Lori Walters heard that the future of the iconic TWA Flight Center at JFK airport was up in the air—given that the Eero Saarinen-designed landmark from 1962 was being eyed for redevelopment—she acted quickly. A historian and researcher at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training, Walters and her team at ChronoPoints use three-dimensional terrestrial laser scanning to document historic buildings. The scanning process results in highly detailed digital models that can eventually be incorporated into educational programming about the structures. While the terminal, beloved during its prime and even to this day (even though it sits unused), had long been on Walters’s mind, she said news of the plan to convert it into a hotel caused her to bump it up to the top of her scanning queue.
“Last week, Mapbox, a map development company based in Washington, D.C., announced that it has raised some $52.55 million in Series B funding, a sum CEO Eric Gunderson called the biggest ever for a mapping company. Mapbox doesn’t exactly make maps, though. It builds towers of software that organize sets of geo-spatial data for other kinds of businesses—real estate, transportation, agriculture, government, smartphone apps.” Read more
