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Jan 10, 2023

Did Scientists Just Invent A Mind Reading Implant? | Unveiled

Posted by in categories: computing, government, neuroscience, time travel

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Jan 10, 2023

This AI can spoof your voice after just three seconds

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Microsoft has revealed VALL-E, an artificial intelligence that can replicate any voice using a three-second sample. It has huge potential — and huge risks too.

Jan 10, 2023

Will the metaverse be your new workplace?

Posted by in category: futurism

Some predict that in the future we’ll work in virtual worlds, but others are not convinced.

Jan 10, 2023

Check Out What Happened When This Cunning Crow Got Hold Of A Credit Card

Posted by in category: transportation

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Why would a crow need a train ticket? To be honest, we’re not really sure but that didn’t stop one eager bird attempting to purchase a ride from a ticket machine at Tokyo’s Kinshichō Station.

Twitter user @kinoshi42155049 posted a video of the inquisitive crow having a nosey around the ticket machine before it hopped across to the adjacent machine, stole a woman’s credit card, and tried to slot it into the card reader. It didn’t quite succeed in its mission to buy the ticket but it came impressively close.

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Jan 10, 2023

Revived photon entanglement could enhance quantum communication and imaging

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Generating, losing and reviving entanglement

In their experiment, the researchers generated entangled photons by sending light from a high-power “pump” laser into a nonlinear crystal. Under conditions where the photons’ energies and momenta are conserved, one pump photon will produce two entangled photons in a process called spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC). The two photons are entangled in all their properties. If a photon is detected at one location, for example, the position of the other entangled photon is automatically determined. The correlation exists for other quantities as well, such as momentum, angular position and orbital angular momentum.

As seen through the witness without any corrective measures, the researchers observed that position entanglement between photons disappears after about 4 cm of propagation. On the other hand, something interesting happens for angular-position entanglement. It disappears after about 5 cm of propagation, but after the photons have travelled another 20 cm, entanglement appears again (see figure). The researchers corroborated their experimental results qualitatively with a numerical model.

Jan 10, 2023

Not Science Fiction: A New Method To Move Objects Without Contact

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

A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has uncovered a way to manipulate objects using ultrasound waves, paving the way for contactless movement in industries like manufacturing and robotics without the need for an internal power source.

The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications.

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Jan 10, 2023

Conscious Robots: Scientists Fervently Trying To Create Them Now

Posted by in categories: ethics, law, robotics/AI

The biggest obstacle is that each robotics lab has its own idea of what a conscious robot looks like. There are also moral implications to building robots that have consciousness. Will they have rights, like in Bicentennial Man?

Considerations about conscious robots have been the domain of science fiction for decades. Isaac Asimov wrote several novels, including I, Robot, that examined the implications from the perspectives of law, society, and family, raising a lot of moral questions. Experts in ethical technology have considered and expanded upon these questions as scientists like those in the Columbia University lab work toward building more intelligent machines.

Science fiction has also brought us killer machines like in The Terminator, and conscious robots sound like a good way to have some. Humans might learn bad ideas and act upon them, and there is no reason to believe that robots will not fall into the same trap. Some of science’s greatest minds have warned against getting carried away with artificial intelligence.

Jan 10, 2023

Microsoft Considers $10 Billion Investment in ChatGPT Creator

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, the creator of viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT, according to people familiar with its plans.

Jan 10, 2023

10 Retail industry predictions for 2023

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability

What’s ahead for retail, from the metaverse and AI to Gen A’s spending power and an increased focus on sustainability.

Jan 10, 2023

Developmental and Synthetic Biology featuring Dr. Michael Levin | The Stem Cell Podcast

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

In episode 220 of the Stem Cell Podcast, we chat with Dr. Michael Levin, the Director of the Allen Discovery Center and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University. He talks about regenerating frog legs, using bioelectricity to direct development, and the potential applications of xenobots.

Roundup Papers:
1) https://go.nature.com/3NR8aaG
2) https://go.nature.com/3NFeGkT
3) https://bit.ly/39tYFiM
4) https://bit.ly/3HrKY0g.

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