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Dec 15, 2019
A robot read 3.5 million books to see how we describe men and women differently
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: information science, robotics/AI
About AI bias.
Yet AI bias is by itself a biased term, as if the machine/algorithm were to blame for human bias and/or an incorrect data set.
Dec 15, 2019
Star Wars Prosthetic Arm
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
This ‘Star Wars’-inspired prosthetic arm gives amputees the ability to feel again.
Dec 15, 2019
Surplus chromosomes may fuel tumor growth in some cancers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Extra copies of some genes on excess chromosomes may keep cancer cells growing. Without those extras, cancer cells form fewer tumors in mice.
Dec 14, 2019
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover is getting a friend!
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
NASA s Curiosity Mars Rover is getting a friend!
Next summer, #Mars2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity’s design, they aren’t twins. Curiosity was designed to learn more about past water on Mars, and Mars 2020 will look for signs of past life.
Dec 14, 2019
Sleeping Driver Spotted Behind the Wheel of Tesla in Massachusetts
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: sustainability, transportation
Another Tesla driver was caught sleeping behind the wheel on the highway.
Dec 14, 2019
Alzheimer’s memory discovery reveals function of brain area affected at onset
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Scientists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh have discovered the functions of the area of the brain in which Alzheimer’s begins, offering hope for the development of future treatments.
Alzheimer’s disease is the commonest form of dementia with more than 520,000 people in the UK suffering from the disorder.
The first symptoms of this progressive disorder (which results from degeneration of memory networks in the brain) are problems remembering the things that have happened to us. This type of memory is called episodic memory.
Dec 14, 2019
Miniature Brains Recently Sent Out Brain Waves for the First Time
Posted by Paul Battista in category: neuroscience
The brain organoids, about the size of a pea, can be used to better understand neurological diseases.
Dec 14, 2019
New prosthetic limbs go beyond the functional to allow people to ‘feel’ again
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience, transhumanism
Researchers develop bionic body parts that work like the brain to sense texture, temperature, firmness, location of objects.
Dec 14, 2019
The History of Artificial Intelligence [Documentary]
Posted by Ankur Bargotra in categories: education, robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCVRBDv4YI0
This video is the culmination of documentaries that cover the history and origins of computing-based artificial intelligence.
[0:44–52:22] — The Thinking Machine
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