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Nov 23, 2020
Opensource: The magic power of AI research
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, robotics/AI
As an open-source developer, the question I hear the most is “why would you want to give that away for free.?”
In the field of AI, there are many reasons why opensource is key. First, the code for building models does not give away any competitive advantage because the value comes from models+your own data. Second, it lets the whole world help you find and correct mistakes. Imagine building a house where every architect in the world can contribute one tiny idea. But more importantly, AI is a really hard problem to solve.
The problems in the field cannot be solved by any one individual or group.
Nov 23, 2020
How Our World Has Changed In Just 32 Years
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in category: futurism
Nov 23, 2020
Meet 10 Companies Working On Reading Your Thoughts (And Even Those Of Your Pets)
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: computing, neuroscience
Are brain-computer interfaces the next way we will communicate with machines and even with one another? Here are 10 companies working on decoding our thoughts.
Nov 23, 2020
Full-Body Holograms Are Here, and They’re Amazing
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: holograms
Dan Lovy
Holograms have been around for decades now, but more as a novelty than a crucial technology that everyone uses. PORTL thinks it can change that.
Nov 23, 2020
Radical liquid-mirror ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the moon could study the very first stars
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: space
Nov 23, 2020
Canadian musician Angie C just used a brainwave-reader to play the monster analogue synth TONTO with her mind
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: computing
Coombes described the process to CBC’s Calgary Eyeopener podcast. Her thoughts would be processed by headset via a computer, and then converted to voltages before being assigned to a parameter on the synth.
Thinking about images and questions that stimulated more brainwave activity yielded more dramatic results — even thinking about the word “why” had an effect on volume and pitch.
Nov 23, 2020
Engineering Stem Cells to Treat Bone Cancer
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
With advancements in stem cell therapy, scientists have now engineered stem cells that can treat metastatic bone cancer without damaging surrounding tissue.
Nov 23, 2020
Arthur C Clarke Remains Among Those Expected To Fly To The Moon Next Summer
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: alien life, robotics/AI
Just amazing!
A small fraction of the cremated remains of 61 people will be flown to the Moon next July as part of the payload delivered by Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One lander. The payload is offered by Celestis, a company that provides memorial spaceflights. This particular one has intrigued people because among the many deceased whose ashes will be taken to the moon, there are the remains of science writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke.
Clarke is known to most people for being the author of 2001 – A Space Odyssey, a book in which an ancient alien civilization left one of its peculiar monoliths on the Moon. In the novel, this monolith is found in Tycho crater, but that is not where the Peregrine mission is landing. More aptly, the Astrobotic mission will land in a basaltic lava plain known as Lacus Mortis: the lake of death.
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