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The ability to control our dreams is a skill that more of us are seeking to acquire for sheer pleasure. But if taken seriously, scientists believe it could unlock new secrets of the mind.
By analyzing data from the global online intelligence platform BuiltWith, my colleagues and I have been exploring new ways to measure a nationâs actual digital footprint â from the bottom-up. We have developed two new experimental measures of national digital infrastructure â one focused on domestic digital infrastructure (DDI) and another that looks at a nationâs online export ambitions (DXI).
We plan to develop these further and explore how they may be used to feature in a future index of Digital Economic Investment next year.
This first measure: Digital Domestic Infrastructure (DDI), has a domestic focus and simply looks at the number of websites in each country using the top-level country domain as a simple filter for geography. We digital infrastructure consists of much more than websites and online services but that is a useful guide at a national scale into a nations investments and assets in the digital economy. Weâve also filtered for domains that are hosted by or invest in paid technologies (a data feature BuiltWith offers), so as to distinguish active websites from those that are idle or redirected â typically held by domain squatters. This also removes counts of hobby or personal websites as, while thereâs an amazing array of free, open source technologies to be used in building digital services online, most commercial services now have at least one form of paid technology in their mix.
Honda and the engineering and construction firm Black & Veatch have tested a prototype of Hondaâs autonomous work vehicle at a construction site in New Mexico.
During a month of tests, the AWV performed such tasks as towing, moving construction materials and other supplies to specific locations within the work site.
Hondaâs AWV was first shown as a concept at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. It combines a durable off-road side-by-side platform with advanced autonomous technology. The vehicle uses a collection of sensors to maneuver without a driver, using GPS, radar and lidar for obstacle detection, as well as 3D cameras. Together, these features enable the AWV to be operated by remote control.
A great celestial event is coming for North America, but youâre going to have to get up early to see it.
Taking place on the night of November 18â19, 2021 is the longest partial eclipse of the Moon this century.
That in itself is not a huge claim. After all, a total lunar eclipse is the âbestâ kind of lunar eclipse. However, what happens later this week will be, and look, rather strange.
Itâs set to be a very deep eclipse with about 97% of the Moonâs disk passing through the dark inner part of Earthâs shadowâits umbraâto leave âa tiny, silvery sliver of the Moonâs southern edge peeking out,â as Sky & Telescope magazine puts it.
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This is why researchers trained computers to predict what designer drugs will emerge onto the scene before they hit the market, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
With highly-addictive drugs flooding regions throughout the U.S., this program could save countless lives. But it could also unlock an entire âdark matterâ world of unknown psychoactive possibilities.
This solar farm in Colorado thinks so.
The farming industry is using way too much energy both for its own and the Earthâs sake. To put it in numbers, agriculture uses approximately 21 percent of food production energy, which equals 2.2 quadrillions of kilojoules of energy each year. Whatâs more, about 60 percent of the energy used in agriculture goes toward gasoline, diesel, electricity, and natural gas.
Thatâs where agrivoltaics come in. A system where solar panels are in⊠See more.
This astronomical portrait from the NASA
Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. Itâs vision is âTo discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.â
Unity, the San Francisco-based platform for creating and operating games and other 3D content, on November 10 announced the launch of Unity Simulation Pro and Unity SystemGraph to improve modeling, testing, and training complex systems through AI.
With robotics usage in supply chains and manufacturing increasing, such software is critical to ensuring efficient and safe operations.
Danny Lange, senior vice president of artificial intelligence for Unity, told VentureBeat via email that the Unity SystemGraph uses a node-based approach to model the complex logic typically found in electrical and mechanical systems. âThis makes it easier for roboticists and engineers to model small systems, and allows grouping those into larger, more complex ones â enabling them to prototype systems, test and analyze their behavior, and make optimal design decisions without requiring access to the actual hardware,â said Lange.
To create the ice, the scientists had to squeeze a water droplet to 3.5 million times Earthâs atmospheric pressure and heat it hotter than the sun.
Artificial Superintelligence or ASI, sometimes referred to as digital superintelligence is the advent of a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the smartest and most gifted human minds. AI is a rapidly growing field of technology with the potential to make huge improvements in human wellbeing. However, the development of machines with intelligence vastly superior to humans will pose special, perhaps even unique risks.
Most surveyed AI researchers expect machines to eventually be able to rival humans in intelligence, though there is little consensus on when or how this will happen.
One only needs to accept three basic assumptions to recognize the inevitability of superintelligent AI:
- Intelligence is a product of information processing in physical systems.
- We will continue to improve our intelligent machines.
- We do not stand on the peak of intelligence or anywhere near it.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom expressed concern about what values a superintelligence should be designed to have.
Any type of AI superintelligence could proceed rapidly to its programmed goals, with little or no distribution of power to others. It may not take its designers into account at all. The logic of its goals may not be reconcilable with human ideals. The AIâs power might lie in making humans its servants rather than vice versa. If it were to succeed in this, it would ârule without competition under a dictatorship of oneâ.
Elon Musk has also warned that the global race toward AI could result in a third world war.
To avoid the âworst mistake in historyâ, it is necessary to understand the nature of an AI race, as well as escape the development that could lead to unfriendly Artificial Superintelligence.
To ensure the friendly nature of artificial superintelligence, world leaders should work to ensure that this ASI is beneficial to the entire human race.
