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Feb 23, 2023
Ben Goertzel — Countering Objections to Mind Uploading
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cybercrime/malcode, neuroscience
Ben Goertzel in response to some common objections covered in an article on io9 by George Dvorsky ‘You’ll Probably Never Upload Your Mind Into A Computer’: http://io9.com/you-ll-probably-never-upload-your-mind-into-a-computer-474941498
Objections are covered in order as they appear in the article:
1. Brain functions are not computable.
2. We’ll never solve the hard problem of consciousness.
3. We’ll never solve the binding problem.
4. Panpsychism is true.
5. Mind-body dualism is true.
6. It would be unethical to develop.
7. We can never be sure it works.
8. Uploaded minds would be vulnerable to hacking and abuse.
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Feb 23, 2023
Anti-dust tech paves way for self-cleaning surfaces
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: solar power, space travel, sustainability
Dust is a common fact of life, and it’s more than just a daily nuisance—it can get into machinery and equipment, causing loss of efficiency or breakdowns.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin partnered with North Carolina-based company Smart Material Solutions Inc. to develop a new method to keep dust from sticking to surfaces. The result is the ability to make many types of materials dust resistant, from spacecraft to solar panels to household windows.
The research is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Feb 23, 2023
Look Up! Venus and Jupiter Are Lining Up for an Amazing Optical Illusion
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space
The planets will move closer and closer in the night sky until March 1.
Everything you need to know about the upcoming Venus-Jupiter conjunction.
Feb 23, 2023
The Premiere AI Conference: NVIDIA #GTC23
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: robotics/AI
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Feb 23, 2023
Resemble AI Creates Synthetic Audio Watermark to Tag Deepfake Speech
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI, security
Synthetic speech and voice cloning startup Resemble AI has introduced an “audio watermark” to tag AI-generated speech without compromising sound quality. The new PerTh Perceptual Threshold) Watermarker embeds the sonic signature of Resemble’s synthetic media engine into a recording to mark its AI origin regardless of future audio manipulation, yet subtle enough that no human can hear it.
Audio Watermarking
Visual watermarking hides one image within another, invisible without a computer scanner in the case of particularly high-security documents. The same principle applies to audio watermarks, except it’s a very soft sound that people won’t notice but encoded with information that a computer could decipher. The concept isn’t new, but Resemble has leveraged its audio AI to make PerTh more reliable without compromising the realism of its synthetic speech creation.
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Feb 23, 2023
Scientists grow electrodes in brain, thanks to a simple viscous gel
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, neuroscience
Blurring lines between man and machine.
A breakthrough has made way for a new paradigm in bioelectronics. Earlier, it took the implantation of physical objects to initiate electronic processes in the body. Humans have incorporated technology to enhance the human experience and take charge of their evolution. They’ve also integrated devices within them that could alternately function as organs when biological tissues fail.
Scientists have now developed a viscous gel that will be enough in the future.
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Feb 23, 2023
Future-ready: Australian army tests mind-controlled combat AI robodogs
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: military, robotics/AI
The brain signals successfully directed the robodogs toward a number of locations that the human controller picked “telepathically” by imagining them.
The Australian military is reportedly testing a unique artificial intelligence (AI) “brain robotic interface” to control “robodogs” synced with troopers’ minds.
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Feb 23, 2023
NASA aims to send a lander that can survive Venus’ crushing atmosphere
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space
Firstly, the space agency must develop a battery that can withstand Venus’ hellish conditions.
You may be surprised to learn that humans have sent several landers to Venus’ surface. The Soviet Venera missions, for example, transmitted the first-ever image from another planet on October 20, 1975, after sending its Venera 9 lander to the surface of Venus.
That mission lasted less than two hours on the planet’s surface due to the immense atmospheric pressure and scorching temperatures on Earth’s so-called evil twin.
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Feb 23, 2023
Old fungus could soon be used to make new plastics
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: materials
The fungus has been traditionally used as a fire starter.
A fungus called tinder fungus that grows on the bark of rotting beech and birch trees has been used as a fire starter for a long time, but it may just have a new use: the creation of plastics.
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland proceeded to analyze the internal structure of the fungus, formally called Fomes fomentarius, to understand its strong yet lightweight consistency.
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