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Ray Kurzweil on Why We’re Living in the Singularity | EP #261

In this episode, the mates and Steven Kotler sit down with Ray Kurzweil to discuss AGI, the future, and more.

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Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist best known for his pioneering work in optical character recognition and his predictions regarding the technological singularity.

Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360.

Salim Ismail is the founder of Open ExO, a GP at Exponential Venture Capital/The Organizational Singularity Fund and a sought after global speaker and thought leader.

Dave Blundin is the founder \& GP of Link Ventures.

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Researchers Prove Black Theory in a Laboratory Setting

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY-ASRC) have demonstrated something English mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose predicted over 50 years ago. According to Penrose, it would be possible to extract energy from a rapidly spinning (Kerr) black hole by inserting an object into the region just beyond its event horizon (the ergosphere). This object would be accelerated and ejected from the region, carrying more energy than it did when it entered/

In 1971, Soviet physicist Yakov Zeldovich came along and built on this theorem (the Penrose Process), predicting that a wave interacting with a rapidly-spinning object could not only extract energy from it, but amplify it. In a paper recently published in Nature, the team (all members of CUNY-ASRC Photonics Initiative) demonstrated a new approach for amplifying waves through interaction with rotating bodies. Using a radio-frequency device modulated to mimic spinning, they created a synthetic form of ultrafast rotation far beyond what can be achieved mechanically.

Their device and the physical principles it utilizes could allow researchers to overcome limitations that have long hindered experimental studies of ultra-fast rotational dynamics. It consists of a ring-shaped network of electronic resonators whose properties were rapidly modulated in a timed sequence to produce a traveling pattern around the ring. While the device remained still, the traveling pattern of electromagnetic waves created a form of synthetic motion that mimics an object rotating at ultra-fast speed.

When Italian and German researchers modeled a square-meter array of 1,482 neodymium magnets

When Italian and German researchers modeled a square-meter array of 1,482 neodymium magnets, the simulation showed roughly a fifth of incoming low-energy solar protons being deflected — without any power supply, cryogenic cooling, or moving parts.

Bloomberg Donates $260 Million to Ensure New High Seas Treaty Translates to Lasting Ocean Protections

Bloomberg Philanthropies has identified a funding shortfall in the implementation of many countries’ ocean protection plans, and has attempted to fill it with a quarter-billion dollar donation.

The aim writ small is to translate the paper gains for ocean conservation and management secured with the passage of the UN’s new High Seas Treaty into real gains by helping to cover the cost of management and enforcement for small island nations that lack these resources.

The updated High Seas Treaty has been under negotiation for over 2 decades. Its passage secured major gains for the potential protection of critical ocean habitats.

Chinese scientists develop world’s first bionic auditory neural interface, enabling artificial auditory nerve to ‘understand’ sounds

Chinese scientists have successfully developed the world’s first bionic auditory neural interface, enabling conventional cochlear implants to progress from helping users hear sounds to helping them understand what they hear, marking a major advance from restoring hearing perception to rebuilding auditory function, the Global Times learned from the research team on Monday.

Beyond traditional cochlear implants, this research led by Xu Wentao, professor from the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, provides a new technological pathway for auditory reconstruction through an innovative electronic replacement and restorative solution. The research results were recently published in the international academic journal Nature Materials.

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