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Apr 15, 2021

Open Source, Is it Good for AGI Research or a Suicide Pact? Help us know for sure

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI

Those that have grown up with open source in the past 20 years know that open source is popular. It’s popular because of a number of reasons including that it fosters innovation, speeds up delivery, and helps us all collectively learn from each other.

We ourselves at the AGI Lab have just assumed this was a good thing. We believe that Open Source research helps everyone. Many research groups in AGI research are already open sourcing including Open Cog, Open Nars, and more.

From an ethical standpoint, we use a system called SSIVA Theory to teach ethics to systems we work on such as Uplift and so we assumed we should release some of our code (which we have here on this blog and in papers) and we planned on open sourcing a version of the mASI or collective system that we work on that uses an AGI Cognitive Architecture.

Apr 15, 2021

Part-human, part-monkey embryos grown in lab dishes

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension

Scientists injected dozens of human stem cells into developing monkey embryos, and the resulting hybrids survived for up to 20 days in lab dishes.

These human-monkey embryos could someday serve as helpful models for human disease, embryonic development and aging, the study authors noted in a new report, published April 15 in the journal Cell. By zooming in on the interaction of human and animal cells in the embryos, scientists could also learn how to help human cells survive amongst animal cells, potentially advancing the effort to grow human organs in living animal models.

Apr 15, 2021

Pfizer CEO says third Covid vaccine dose likely needed within 12 months

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people will “likely” need a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated. His comments were made public Thursday but were taped April 1.

Bourla said it’s possible people will need to get vaccinated against the coronavirus annually.

Apr 15, 2021

Evidence Mars May Have Been Alive — and May Yet Harbor Some Life

Posted by in categories: food, habitats, space

Was Mars green? Evidence Mars may have been alive — and may yet harbor some life deep underground.

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Apr 15, 2021

Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This is one of the major problems in medicine — organ transplantation,” said Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, Calif., and a co-author of the Cell study. “The demand for that is much higher than the supply.


An international team has put human cells into monkey embryos in hopes of finding new ways to produce organs for transplantation. But some ethicists still worry about how such research could go wrong.

Apr 15, 2021

5 Undersung Harbingers Of Earth’s Ancient Evolution

Posted by in category: evolution

New book offers unique perspective on Earth’s history.

Apr 15, 2021

YIKES! Hackers flood the web with 100,000 pages offering malicious PDFs

Posted by in category: internet

Hackers Flood the Internet With 100000 Malicious PDF Documents.

Apr 15, 2021

New JavaScript Exploit Can Now Carry Out DDR4 Rowhammer Attacks

Posted by in category: futurism

Hackers can now use a JavaScript exploit to trigger Rowhammer attacks remotely on modern DDR4 RAM cards.

Apr 15, 2021

Update Your Chrome Browser to Patch 2 New In-the-Wild 0-Day Exploits

Posted by in categories: computing, security

Google patches two security vulnerabilities in Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux, both of which it says are under active exploitation.

Apr 15, 2021

NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers

Posted by in category: privacy

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2021 – NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers.