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Mar 7, 2023

Electricity flow in the human brain can be predicted using the simple maths of networks, new study reveals

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Your thoughts, emotions and behaviours arise from the complex network of electric activity in your brain. But what can we do when we need to tweak it?

Mar 7, 2023

What Can Digital Art Teach Us About Identity in a Hyper-Technologized World? A New Group Show at the Whitney Weighs In

Posted by in category: futurism

Featuring works by six artists, “Refigured” is on view through July 3.

Richard Whiddington, March 7, 2023.

Mar 7, 2023

Mind-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chips (Part 1)

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

I can’t help myself. I keep thinking about the 1961 musical Stop the World—I Want to Get Off. After opening in Manchester, England, the show transferred to the West End, London, where it ran for 485 performances.

It’s not that the plot of this extravaganza has anything to do with what we are talking about here. It’s just that the sentiment embodied by the show’s title reflects the way I’m currently feeling about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

On the one hand, the current state of play with AI and ML is tremendously exciting. On the other hand, I’m starting to think that I’ve enjoyed all the excitement I can stand.

Mar 7, 2023

Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, information science, robotics/AI

X-AR uses wireless signals and computer vision to enable users to perceive things that are invisible to the human eye (i.e., to deliver non-line-of-sight perception). It combines new antenna designs, wireless signal processing algorithms, and AI-based fusion of different sensors.

This design introduces three main innovations:

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Mar 7, 2023

Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk Is Reportedly Critiquing ChatGPT for Being ‘Woke’. Is He right?

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Examining Elon Musk’s Criticism of ChatGPT. “Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk Is Reportedly Critiquing ChatGPT for Being ‘Woke’. Is He right?” is published by Liquid Ocelot in InkWater Atlas.

Mar 7, 2023

AGI Soon? 1 AI Using 2 Modalities Solves Visual IQ Test w/ 1,600,000,000 Parameters | Kosmos-1

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

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A new multimodal artificial intelligence model from Microsoft called Kosmos-1 is able to process both text and visual data to the point of passing a visual IQ test with 26 percent accuracy, and researchers say this is a step towards AGI. Stable Diffusion AI can now read brain waves to reconstruct images that people are thinking about. Stanford has created a world record brain computer interface device with the help of AI to allow patients to type 62 words per minute with their thoughts.

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0:00 Microsoft Kosmos-1 AI & AGI
3:34 AI Neuroscience Tech Reads Brain Waves.
5:43 AI & BCI Breaks Record.

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Mar 7, 2023

Lithium-ion batteries made with recycled materials are better than new

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering, sustainability, transportation

Recycling spent lithium-ion batteries plays a significant role in alleviating the shorting of raw materials and environmental problems. However, recycled materials are deemed inferior to commercial materials, preventing the industry from adopting recycled materials in new batteries.

Now, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts have demonstrated that the recycled materials from used lithium-ion batteries can outperform new commercial materials, making the recycled materials a potentially green and profitable resource for battery producers. Led by Yan Wang, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the team of researchers used physical tests, imaging, and computer simulations to compare new cathode materials recovered from old electric vehicle batteries through a recycling process, which is being commercialized by Battery Resourcers Inc. of Worcester.

The technology involved shredding batteries and removing the steel cases, aluminum and copper wires, plastics, and pouch materials for recycling. Researchers then dissolved the metals from those battery bits in an acidic solution. They by tweaking the solution’s pH, the team removed impurities such as iron and copper and recovered over 90% of three key metals – nickel, manganese, and cobalt. The recovered metals formed the basis for the team’s cathode material.

Mar 7, 2023

Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics

Forget about He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created gene-edited babies. Instead, when you think about gene editing you should think of Victoria Gray, the African-American woman who says she’s been cured of her sickle-cell disease symptoms.

This week in London, scientists are gathering for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing. It’s gene editing’s big event, where researchers get to awe the audience with their new ability to modify DNA—and ethicists get to worry about what it all means.

Mar 7, 2023

How Humans Could Go Interstellar, Without Warp Drive

Posted by in categories: cosmology, economics, information science, space travel

The field equations of Einstein’s General Relativity theory say that faster-than-light (FTL) travel is possible, so a handful of researchers are working to see whether a Star Trek-style warp drive, or perhaps a kind of artificial wormhole, could be created through our technology.

But even if shown feasible tomorrow, it’s possible that designs for an FTL system could be as far ahead of a functional starship as Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century drawings of flying machines were ahead of the Wright Flyer of 1903. But this need not be a showstopper against human interstellar flight in the next century or two. Short of FTL travel, there are technologies in the works that could enable human expeditions to planets orbiting some of the nearest stars.

Certainly, feasibility of such missions will depend on geopolitical-economic factors. But it also will depend on the distance to nearest Earth-like exoplanet. Located roughly 4.37 light years away, Alpha Centauri is the Sun’s closest neighbor; thus science fiction, including Star Trek, has envisioned it as humanity’s first interstellar destination.

Mar 7, 2023

Survival Strategies in the Era of AI Taught

Posted by in categories: business, education, robotics/AI

Dr. Li Jiang is a director of Stanford AIRE program. Many of you think ChatGPT started the era of AI. But, Dr. Jiang says it started already. AI seems much better than we do. It seems it can solve many problems. Then, what can we do? How can we survive from AI? How should we do? Dr. Jiang suggest this method for us who are facing the era of AI.

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