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There has been a massive tidal wave of tech innovation over the last couple of years. Some apps and platforms offer basic services for the home or office. Others ignite your imagination.

Gil Perry, CEO and cofounder of D-ID, an Israeli-based tech company, has created something amazingly beautiful and touching. Leveraging artificial intelligence and sophisticated technology, the company has created a unique, animated, live portrait, which animates the photos of long-lost relatives or whoever you’d like to see, as if they are in the room with you. Its tech makes people come alive and look realistic and natural.

The feature, Deep Nostalgia, lets users upload a photo of a person or group of people to see individual faces animated by AI. People have been able to breathe life into their old black-and-white photos of grandma and grandpa that have been stored in boxes up in the attic.

Our map of the Milky Way has been upgraded and it now lets us rewind the paths of stars to look back in time. The data set that enables this, released by the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Gaia space telescope, includes the detailed chemical make-up and speeds of almost 2 billion stars.

The application of mechanic forces to the cell nucleus affects the transport of proteins through the nuclear membrane, an action that controls cellular processes and could play a key role in several diseases such as cancer. These findings draw a new scenario for understanding how the mechanic forces drive the progression of cancer and open the doors to the design of potential innovative techniques—both diagnostic and therapeutic. This is the conclusion of a study published in the journal Nature Cell Biology led by lecturer Pere Roca-Cusachs, from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the UB (IN2UB) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC).

The cells in the body receive mechanical stimuli from their environment and respond accordingly regarding decisions on how and when to grow, move and differentiate. The process is known as mechanotransduction and it is critically important for the cell function and for human health.

The study reveals that the direct application of force to the can affect the spatial organization of the DNA and the activity of nuclear proteins, among other functions. When invade the organs and metastasis appears, these create physical forces that are transmitted to the .

Machines becoming conscious, self-aware, and having feelings would be an extraordinary threshold. We would have created not just life, but conscious beings.

There has already been massive debate about whether that will ever happen. While the discussion is largely about supra-human intelligence, that is not the same thing as consciousness.

Now the massive leaps in quality of AI conversational bots is leading some to believe that we have passed that threshold and the AI we have created is already sentient.

Read the article:► https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/a-new-bra…d127107db9
Paper:► https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-00237-3.epdf.
Watch MIT’s video:► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KBOf7NJh4Y&feature=emb_titl…l=MITCSAIL
GitHub:► https://github.com/mlech26l/keras-ncp.
Colab tutorials:
The basics of Neural Circuit Policies:► https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1IvVXVSC7zZPo5w-PfL3…sp=sharing.
How to stack NCP with other types of layers:► https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1-mZunxqVkfZVBXNPG0k…sp=sharing.

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