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Mar 26, 2024

New AI Technology enables 3D Capture and Editing of Real-Life Objects

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

Imagine performing a sweep around an object with your smartphone and getting a realistic, fully editable 3D model that you can view from any angle. This is fast becoming reality, thanks to advances in AI.

Researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada have unveiled new AI technology for doing exactly this. Soon, rather than merely taking 2D photos, everyday consumers will be able to take 3D captures of real-life objects and edit their shapes and appearance as they wish, just as easily as they would with regular 2D photos today.

In a new paper appearing on the arXiv preprint server and presented at the 2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in New Orleans, Louisiana, researchers demonstrated a new technique called Proximity Attention Point Rendering (PAPR) that can turn a set of 2D photos of an object into a cloud of 3D points that represents the object’s shape and appearance.

Mar 26, 2024

Why does life flash before your eyes in a life-threatening scenario?

Posted by in category: futurism

But what explains this phenomenon? Psychologists have proposed a number of explanations, but I’d argue the key to understanding Tony’s experience lies in a different interpretation of time itself.

When life flashes before our eyes

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Mar 26, 2024

Biologist Says the Sun May Be Conscious

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A groundbreaking theory claims that everything in existence possesses some form of consciousness — including the Sun itself.

Mar 26, 2024

LLM Agent Operating System

Posted by in category: computing

https://huggingface.co/papers/2403.

The integration and deployment of large language model (LLM)-based intelligent agents have been fraught with challenges that compromise their efficiency and efficacy.


Join the discussion on this paper page.

Mar 26, 2024

Study unveils protein signatures for early detection of endometrial cancer in cervico-vaginal fluid

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

In a recent study published in eBioMedicine, researchers evaluated proteomic signatures in blood plasma and cervicovaginal fluid for endometrial cancer detection.

Study: Detection of endometrial cancer in cervico-vaginal fluid and blood plasma: leveraging proteomics and machine learning for biomarker discovery. Image Credit: mi_viri/Shutterstock.com.

Mar 26, 2024

Scientists Just Got Closer to Creating Artificial Life in the Lab

Posted by in category: futurism

Scientists have created an RNA-replicating molecule in the lab — and brought the world one step close to creating artificial life.

Mar 26, 2024

The Source of Consciousness — with Mark Solms

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Mark Solms discusses his new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the centre of mental life.

Mark’s book \.

Mar 26, 2024

Understanding the link between brain tumour and movement disorder

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

A brain tumor is the growth of abnormal cells in the brain or the area near it including nerves, pituitary gland, pineal gland, and membranes that cover the surface of the brain. Sometimes it can happen in the brain tissue as well. Brain tumours can be cancerous (malignant) or it can be non-cancerous (benign). However, both of them can be potentially life-threatening.

On the other hand, movement disorders refer to a cluster of neurological conditions that can either cause increased movements or decreased movements. For the unversed, brain tumours that are specifically affecting the brainstem, can sometimes cause various movement disorders.

Mar 26, 2024

How 1990s libertarians laid the groundwork for cryptocurrency

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, encryption, surveillance, transhumanism

The development of Transhumanism / Extropianism in the final two decades of the 20th century also set in motion the creation of digital cash, including the breakthrough killer app: Bitcoin.


The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wanted to denationalize money. David Chaum, an innovator in the field of cryptography and electronic cash, wanted to shield it from surveillance. Their goals were not the same, but they each inspired the same man.

Max O’Connor grew up in the British city of Bristol in the 1960s and ’70s. Telling his life story to Wired in 1994, he explained how he had always dreamed of a future where humanity expanded its potential in science-fictional ways, a world where people would possess X-ray vision, carry disintegrator guns, or walk straight through walls.

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Mar 26, 2024

Paper page — Be Yourself: Bounded Attention for Multi-Subject Text-to-Image Generation

Posted by in category: futurism

Be Yourself.

Bounded attention for multi-subject text-to-image generation.

Text-to-image diffusion models have an unprecedented ability to generate diverse and high-quality images.

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