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Mar 5, 2023

‘Swarmalators’ better envision synchronized microbots

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones, engineering

Imagine a world with precision medicine, where a swarm of microrobots delivers a payload of medicine directly to ailing cells. Or one where aerial or marine drones can collectively survey an area while exchanging minimal information about their location.

One early step towards realizing such technologies is being able to simultaneously simulate swarming behaviors and synchronized timing—behaviors found in slime molds, sperm and fireflies, for example.

In 2014, Cornell researchers first introduced a simple model of swarmalators—short for “swarming oscillator”—where particles self-organize to synchronize in both time and space. In the study, “Diverse Behaviors in Non-uniform Chiral and Non-chiral Swarmalators,” which published Feb. 20 in the journal Nature Communications, they expanded this model to make it more useful for engineering microrobots; to better understand existing, observed biological behaviors; and for theoreticians to experiment in this field.

Mar 5, 2023

9 Best Cyberpunk Novels You Should Read

Posted by in category: futurism

FallenKingdomReads’ 10 Best Cyberpunk Novels You Should Read

The cyberpunk genre has been a popular subgenre of science fiction since the 1980s. Defined by its focus on high tech and low life, cyberpunk has become known for its gritty and often dystopian worlds, where technology has merged with humanity in unexpected and often unsettling ways.

With so many cyberpunk novels to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to start. In this article, we’ll take a look at the 9 best cyberpunk novels you should read, whether you’re new to the genre or a seasoned fan looking for your next read.

Mar 5, 2023

Time travel paradoxes and multiple histories

Posted by in category: time travel

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Mar 5, 2023

ChatGPT — How to Use it With Python

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Note: ChatGPT is coming to openai API soon, you can sign up in their waiting list. Here is a link for openAI’s ChatGPT API waitlist: https://share.hsforms.com/1u4goaXwDRKC9-x9IvKno0A4sk30

You might have already heard about ChatGPT, in case you haven’t, ChatGPT is a chatbot language model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the GPT-3 language model, specifically designed for conversational language generation.

The following definition is generate by ChatGPT (you can try it out at https://chat.openai.com/chat):

Mar 5, 2023

How do patients feel about postoperative cognitive dysfunction?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

One of the most concerning outcomes following surgery and anesthesia among older adults is a condition known as postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Often, patients and their family members report feeling very fearful that the patient will suffer permanent cognitive deficits after anesthesia. Unfortunately, this pre-emptive fear may contribute to the complex array of symptoms associated with POCD and further complicate the ability to fully understand the subjective experience of this postoperative complication.

About the study

The current study published in the British Journal of Anesthesia involved the collection of data from the comments section of the published article titled ‘The hidden long-term risks of surgery.’ The comments were given an alphanumeric code to maintain chronological order and structure, while the username, submission date, and time were kept anonymous.

Mar 5, 2023

The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Generative AI is here. Let’s hope we’re ready.

Mar 5, 2023

AI will soon ‘be a $600 billion addressable software market,’ C3.ai CEO says

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

C3.ai Founder & CEO Tom Siebel joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss company earnings, the buzz around ChatGPT, the ongoing AI hype cycle, and the outlook for the computer software company as tech grapples with AI adoption.

Video Transcript

JULIE HYMAN: C3.AI has been riding the huge buzz around artificial intelligence this year. The shares have gone up a lot and they’re still going up spurred by ChatGPT and the buzz around that. But the company does have a longer history.

Mar 5, 2023

Planned Economies And Artificial Intelligence: A short rant | Mia Mulder

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

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ChatGPT is changing the world, but what if the technology behind it can change the economy too?

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Mar 5, 2023

OpenAI Codex Live Demo

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI Codex is an AI that translates natural language to code.

0:00 — Introduction.
2:48 — Hello World.
13:08 — Building a game.
25:15 — Codex plugin for Microsoft Word.

Mar 5, 2023

The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias | Beau Lotto | Big Think

Posted by in categories: biological, computing, education, finance, neuroscience

The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias.
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To ensure your survival, your brain evolved to avoid one thing: uncertainty. As neuroscientist Beau Lotto points out, if your ancestors wondered for too long whether that noise was a predator or not, you wouldn’t be here right now. Our brains are geared to make fast assumptions, and questioning them in many cases quite literally equates to death. No wonder we’re so hardwired for confirmation bias. No wonder we’d rather stick to the status quo than risk the uncertainty of a better political model, a fairer financial system, or a healthier relationship pattern. But here’s the catch: as our brains evolved toward certainty, we simultaneously evolved away from creativity—that’s no coincidence; creativity starts with a question, with uncertainty, not with a cut and dried answer. To be creative, we have to unlearn millions of years of evolution. Creativity asks us to do that which is hardest: to question our assumptions, to doubt what we believe to be true. That is the only way to see differently. And if you think creativity is a chaotic and wild force, think again, says Beau Lotto. It just looks that way from the outside. The brain cannot make great leaps, it can only move linearly through mental possibilities. When a creative person forges a connection between two things that are, to your mind, so far apart, that’s a case of high-level logic. They have moved through steps that are invisible to you, perhaps because they are more open-minded and well-practiced in questioning their assumptions. Creativity, it seems, is another (highly sophisticated) form of logic. Beau Lotto is the author of Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently.

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