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Sep 17, 2022

Weirdest sex tech of the future from metaverse sexual skeletons to VR tongues

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, sex, virtual reality

AS man and machine get ever closer, the world of sex tech seems to get a little stranger.

We’ve rounded up some of the most bizarre sex tech inventions that are in the works, including an exoskeleton could let humans make love in the metaverse.

Humans may rely on exoskeletons to have realistic sex in the metaverse, one sex tech expert has revealed.

Sep 17, 2022

Europe’s Sun probe just survived a potentially world-ruining solar storm

Posted by in category: space

Some of Solar Orbiter’s instruments had to be turned off during the event.


There’s one spacecraft that will be very well placed to capture that increasing activity: Solar Orbiter is currently 25 percent of the way through its 10-year mission of observing the Sun. By 2025, it will be closer than ever to our parent star, and it has already started observing some fantastic phenomena from our Sun.

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Sep 17, 2022

Is there an afterlife? Here’s what he saw while he was ‘dead’

Posted by in category: neuroscience

What if death isn’t the end? NDEs may complicate what science teaches us about death and consciousness.

Sep 17, 2022

Where are all the personal robots we were promised?

Posted by in categories: genetics, robotics/AI, security

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These 15 robots may demonstrate that the concept is viable.

Personal robots have been a common trope in sci-fi for many decades. Their apparent plausibility has made many sci-fi enthusiasts wonder when they may become a reality.

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Sep 17, 2022

The Creepy Problem Killing AI Projects

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Have you ever looked at something and been creeped out by it’s almost, but not quite, human-like appearance? Be honest — does the Sophia robot creep you out?People find things that are human like, but not quite human, to be creepy. The feeling of creepiness can range from robots, to CGI animation, animatronics like you see at theme parks, dolls or even digital assistants. This concept is called the “uncanny valley”. And, believe it or not, is actually a particularly significant reason why many AI projects are failing.

The uncanny valley is the relationship between the degree of an object’s resemblance to being human and then humans emotional response to that object.


Why is AI so creepy sometimes?

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Sep 17, 2022

Midjourney Founder David Holz On The Impact Of AI On Art, Imagination And The Creative Economy

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

Midjourney is one of the leading drivers of the emerging technology of using artificial intelligence (AI) to create visual imagery from text prompts. The San Francisco-based startup recently made news as the engine behind the artwork that won an award in a Colorado state fair competition, and that’s unlikely to be the last complicated issue that AI art will face in the coming years.

Midjourney differentiates from others in the space by emphasizing the painterly aesthetics in the images it produces.


Serial entrepreneur David Holz explains the goals and methods of the revolutionary text-to-image platform and his vision for the future of human imagination.

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Sep 17, 2022

AI Is Coming For Commercial Art Jobs. Can It Be Stopped?

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Earlier this summer, a piece generated by an AI text-to-image application won a prize in a state fair art competition, prying open a Pandora’s Box of issues about the encroachment of technology into the domain of human creativity and the nature of art itself.


Art professionals are increasingly concerned that text-to-image platforms will render hundreds of thousands of well-paid creative jobs obsolete.

Sep 17, 2022

Google Imagen- A Text-to-image diffusion model Creating Images Based on Written Text

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Have you ever imagined “a robot couple fine dining with Eiffel Tower in the background”?

Sep 17, 2022

The Startup Making Robotic Arms More Accessible And Less Complicated

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

From assembly lines to warehouses, robots have been used to automate processes at work for decades. Today, the demand for automation is growing rapidly, but there’s one big problem: today’s robots are expensive to build and complicated to set up. They have complex hardware and need programming by skilled engineers to perform specific tasks. In order to meet demand in an increasingly automated world, robotic arms have to be more affordable, lighterweight, and easier to use.

Ally Robotics, a startup specializing in AI-powered robotic arms, is working on doing just that. Ally is ushering in a new era of robotics—and giving early investors a unique opportunity to join the golden age.

Sep 17, 2022

Why humanity is needed to propel conversational AI

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

Conversational AI is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows consumers to interact with computer applications as if they were interacting with another human. According to Deloitte, the global conversational AI market is set to grow by 22% between 2022 and 2025 and is estimated to reach $14 billion by 2025.

Providing enhanced language customizations to cater to a highly diverse and vast group of hyper-local audiences, many practical applications of this include financial services, hospital wards and conferences, and can take the form of a translation app or a chatbot. According to Gartner, 70% of white-collar workers purportedly regularly interact with conversational platforms, but this is just a drop in the ocean of what can unfold this decade.

Despite the exciting potential within the AI space, there is one significant hurdle; the data used to train conversational AI models does not adequately account for the subtleties of dialect, language, speech patterns and inflection.