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Jun 30, 2024

Scientists Are Testing How to Put ‘Living Skin’ On Robot Faces, With Nightmarish Results

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Scientists are experimenting to figure out how best to attach ‘living skin’ to robotic faces, and make them smile. The results are, predictably, terrifying.

Jun 30, 2024

A Study Says Warp Drives Might Be Real—and We’ll Find Them With Lasers

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Scientists say they can detect the presence of advanced propulsion systems through gravitational waves.

Jun 30, 2024

Swarm Satellites Help Aurora Chasers Discover Steve’s Long-Lost Twin

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Ever since aurora chasers discovered Steve, a mysterious ribbon of purple light in the night sky, scientists have wondered whether it might have a secret twin. Now, thanks to a photographer’s keen eye, and data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, we may have found it.

Steve was a sensation when scientists stumbled across it a few years ago, thanks to the eagle eyes and excellent photography of the Alberta Aurora Chasers Facebook group.

But its mauve hue and fleeting appearance meant it couldn’t be a feature of the aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, which comes in shades of green, blue and red and can last for hours. So, what could it be?

Jun 30, 2024

Consciousness, awareness, and the intellect of AI

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How human-like is artificial intelligence? In this blog post, we explore the consciousness, awareness, and intelligence of AI.

Jun 30, 2024

Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works

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Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself.

By George Musser

The dream of artificial intelligence has never been just to make a grandmaster-beating chess engine or a chatbot that tries to break up a marriage. It has been to hold a mirror to our own intelligence, that we might understand ourselves better. Researchers seek not simply artificial intelligence but artificial general intelligence, or AGI—a system with humanlike adaptability and creativity.

Jun 30, 2024

Consciousness in Humanoid Robots

Posted by in categories: genetics, robotics/AI

Building a conscious robot is a grand scientific and technological challenge. Debates about the possibility of conscious robots and the related positive outcomes and hazards for human beings are today no more confined to philosophical circles. Robot consciousness is a research field aimed to a unified view of approaches as cognitive robotics, epigenetic and affective robotics, situated and embodied robotics, developmental robotics, anticipatory systems, biomimetic robotics. Scholars agree that a conscious robot would completely change the current views on technology: it would not be an “intelligent companion” but a complete novel kind of artifact. Notably, many neuroscientists involved in the study of consciousness do not exclude this possibility. Moreover, facing the problem of consciousness in robots may be a major move on the study of consciousness in humans and animals.

Jun 30, 2024

Sulforaphane Extends Lifespan, Increases Muscle Strength And Endurance

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Jun 30, 2024

The False Horror of Immortality

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Jun 30, 2024

Is CRISPR-Cas12a the future in fast and accurate pathogen detection?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Researchers at the Tulane University School of Medicine are working on a cost-effective, CRISPR-Cas12a-based pathogen detection tool.

Jun 30, 2024

$1m prize for AI that can solve puzzles that are simple for humans

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Deducing the correct pattern that links pairs of coloured grids is relatively easy for most people, but relies on skills that artificial intelligence models lack. A new $1 million prize hopes to encourage the development of an AI that can solve such puzzles.

By Alex Wilkins

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