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Oct 2, 2022

Michel Colombier — Colossus: The Forbin Project OST (1970) (bootleg)

Posted by in categories: government, military, nuclear weapons, robotics/AI, supercomputing

Once the first artificial super intelligence is created it will help us recursively improve ourselves and then the post human millennium will begin.


Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

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Oct 2, 2022

What Sounds Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reveal About Mars

Posted by in category: space

The ensemble of sounds in this video captured on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover includes a dust removal tool for rock analysis, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, and the impact of a laser on rocks. A new study of some of those sounds, captured mostly by the rover’s SuperCam microphone during the first 216 Martian days of the mission, reveals how sound differs on Mars, including traveling slower than on Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.


A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth and that, mostly, a deep silence prevails.

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Oct 2, 2022

Breakthrough research links deformed proteins with schizophrenia « Kurzweil

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, Ray Kurzweil

New research from medical scientists at Johns Hopkins University linked abnormally formed proteins in the human brain with the psychiatric illness called schizophrenia, in a significant number of patients. While they’re not yet sure what the connection is, the study said that deformed proteins were found in the brains of many patients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia.


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Oct 2, 2022

The world’s first AI kitchen assistants « Kurzweil

Posted by in categories: food, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI

Miso Robotics company creates automated tech that assists + empowers commercial chefs to make food consistently and perfectly — while saving waste + cost through efficiency and precision.

The AI automated food prep robotic system named Flippy is currently being tested + implemented in the kitchens of top global brand restaurants. Miso Robotics has also innovated the world’s first point-of-sale integrated automatic beverage dispenser — named Sippy. All of the Miso Robotics mechanical systems operate on their Miso AI software platform.

The featurette below shows Flippy’s surprising capabilities. You can also see the Sippy’s novel cup-sealing method, designed to save the planet from millions of pounds of plastic lid waste.

Oct 2, 2022

Real Nightclubs Opening Virtual Dance Floors

Posted by in categories: business, futurism

What’s a Metaverse, and Why is One Having a Fashion Show?

Experiential Marketing Meets Social Commerce in the Metaverse

For all the hype of the metaverse as the future of entertainment, retail, and social media, there’s only one business that has an actual, proven track record: Concerts from recording artists like Arianna Grande and Travis Scott have drawn millions of fans.

Oct 2, 2022

The next phase of mobile technology will be dominated

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Smart glasses from the likes of Amazon, Meta, and Snap will complement and then replace smartphones.

Oct 2, 2022

Living Plant Controls a Machete Through an Industrial Robot Arm

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

David bowen’s creates ‘plant machete’ that enables a live plant to move a machete with a control system and a machine arm.

Oct 1, 2022

Tesla To Employ Thousands Of Its “Humanoid Robots” In Its Factories

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The big surprise at the initial Tesla AI Day in 2021 was Tesla’s plan for an actual human-like, or “humanoid,” robot. (Though, our own Chanan Bos did predict that type of product.) Some basic details were presented, and a human in a robot costume danced around a bit.

While Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) has been slow to reach a convincing level of autonomy, I think the potential for Tesla to capitalize on the AI it is developing in the form of a humanoid robot is tremendous.

Oct 1, 2022

Before Brains, Mechanics May Have Ruled Animal Behavior

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Biomechanical interactions, rather than neurons, control the movements of one of the simplest animals. The discovery offers a glimpse into how animal behavior worked before neurons evolved.

Oct 1, 2022

Tesla unveils new Dojo supercomputer so powerful it tripped the power grid

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing, transportation

Tesla has unveiled its latest version of its Dojo supercomputer and it’s apparently so powerful that it tripped the power grid in Palo Alto.

Dojo is Tesla’s own custom supercomputer platform built from the ground up for AI machine learning and more specifically for video training using the video data coming from its fleet of vehicles.

The automaker already has a large NVIDIA GPU-based supercomputer that is one of the most powerful in the world, but the new Dojo custom-built computer is using chips and an entire infrastructure designed by Tesla.