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Jul 9, 2024
Flexible multitask computation in recurrent networks utilizes shared dynamical motifs
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
The authors identify reusable ‘dynamical motifs’ in artificial neural networks. These motifs enable flexible recombination of previously learned capabilities, promoting modular, compositional computation and rapid transfer learning. This discovery sheds light on the fundamental building blocks of intelligent behavior.
Jul 9, 2024
WATCH: Robot learns to smile after researchers successfully attach skin to his face
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a method to integrate engineered skin tissue with humanoid robots, enhancing mobility, self-healing, sensors, and realism.
Jul 9, 2024
Google DeepMind’s JEST AI Learns 13x Faster & SenseTime’s New AI Beats GPT-4o
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
Google’s DeepMind has unveiled a groundbreaking AI training method called JEST, which significantly reduces energy consumption and training time. Meanwhile, Chinese tech giants like SenseTime and Alibaba are showcasing their own powerful AI models, claiming to outperform even OpenAI’s GPT-4 in certain areas. The race for AI dominance is heating up, with advancements in efficient training and multimodal learning taking center stage.
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Jul 9, 2024
Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren’t an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolved by accident – and are likely to shrink again in the near future.
By Colin Barras
Jul 9, 2024
Organic electrochemical neurons for neuromorphic perception
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: chemistry, computing, neuroscience
This Perspective explores the potential of organic electrochemical neurons, which are based on organic electrochemical transistors, in the development of adaptable and biointegrable neuromorphic event-based sensing applications.
Jul 9, 2024
Terahertz phonon engineering with van der Waals heterostructures
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: engineering
In an application of terahertz phonon engineering, terahertz phonons were generated, detected and manipulated through precise integration of atomically thin layers in van der Waals heterostructures.
Jul 9, 2024
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: quantum physics
The Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics from (Bub & Pitowsky, 2010) has been criticized in two ways related to the ontological picture it supplies. This paper explores whether Ontic Structural Realism can supplement the metaphysics of ITIQM in a way that would satisfy its critics. The many similarities between the two views are detailed. And it is argued that the ITIQM view ca. 2010 does seem to be compatible with OSR, but as the view evolved in Bub’s Bananaworld (2016), its fundamental metaphysical commitments shifted, making it a less clean fit with OSR.
Jul 9, 2024
Meet the AI-powered robots that Big Tech thinks can solve a global labor shortage
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
AI-powered robots are popping up across Silicon Valley. If some industry experts are right, they could help solve a global labor shortage.
Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia have plowed billions of dollars into what are known as “humanoid” robots. These machines typically stand on two legs, and are designed to perform tasks meant for people.