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Jan 14, 2025
AI Companions Will Change Our Lives
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: education, robotics/AI
The next generations of AI will not only do more, they’ll also be more rooted in trusted sources of information. This will make them accurate and reliable at a whole new level. By demarcating boundaries and fostering trust, we can create AI companions that are safe, reliable, and deeply integrated into our personal and professional lives; AIs that begin to address those wider societal issues. We have all got used to the idea that AI might help with productivity applications, but we need to realize that, alongside this, AI can be an emotional support as well.
This is not about replacing human relationships. It’s about opening previously unimaginable new spaces and possibilities. It’s about overhauling a broken system of addictive technologies. After another year of AI hype and of increased questions about the direction of innovation, at a time when looking at our emails, our bills, or a news item can deliver an unwanted spike of adrenaline, we need a better vision for what will be the most transformative technology of all. In this context, the AI companion is both a call to action—this is what we need to build—and also a prediction: this is the direction the technology is now decisively taking.
Too many people have gotten stuck in an outdated view of AI. Let’s embrace a future that is at once far more real, and far richer, than the popular narratives suggest. Get AI right and it will be a profound new source of education, support, entertainment, and information. But it will also be something way beyond just a tool—it will be a companion in the fullest sense.
Jan 14, 2025
Quantum engineers create a ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ inside a silicon chip
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
UNSW engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations—and they have important implications for error correction, one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and a working quantum computer.
Quantum mechanics has puzzled scientists and philosophers for more than a century. One of the most famous quantum thought experiments is that of the “Schrödinger’s cat”—a cat whose life or death depends on the decay of a radioactive atom.
According to quantum mechanics, unless the atom is directly observed, it must be considered to be in a superposition—that is, being in multiple states at the same time—of decayed and not decayed. This leads to the troubling conclusion that the cat is in a superposition of dead and alive.
Jan 14, 2025
Genetic Analysis Reveals Bacterium’s Survival Tactics
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: genetics
A new study reveals how Staphylococcus aureus can adapt and evolve to survive in and on its human carriers at a genetic level.
Jan 14, 2025
Eli Mohamad & Kai Micah Mills — Advancing Frontiers Of Cryopreservation & Biological Replacement
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: bioprinting, biotech/medical, cryonics, life extension, robotics/AI, singularity
Biological replacement and cryopreservation to significantly extend human lifespans — eli mohamad & kai micah mills — hydradao and cryodao.
Eli Mohamad is a prominent figure in the biotech, space, and AI industries who has co-founded several successful startups and has a real passion for groundbreaking ventures that focus on the development of futuristic technologies.
Jan 14, 2025
Schrödinger’s Quantum Cat Awakens to Revolutionize Computing
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
In a groundbreaking experiment, UNSW researchers successfully applied the Schrödinger’s cat concept using an antimony atom to enhance quantum computations.
This method significantly improves the reliability of quantum data processing and error correction, potentially accelerating the advent of practical quantum computing.
Understanding quantum mechanics through schrödinger’s cat.
Jan 14, 2025
Wanted: Humans to build robots for OpenAI — and not everyone is thrilled
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Following the disbanding and reinstating of OpenAI’s robotics department over the past years and reports of OpenAI building its own robot, a series of new job listings on the robotics team suggest the company is finally ready to leap into hardware.
Also: I tried an AI wristband that listens to you 24/7 — and makes IRL conversations searchable
Last Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in November to lead the robotics and consumer hardware team, shared the first OpenAI Robotics hardware roles via an X post. These job postings include an EE Sensing Engineer, Robotics Mechanical Design Engineer, and TPM Manager.
Jan 14, 2025
Here’s our forecast for AI this year
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Jan 14, 2025
Scientists discover ‘sunken worlds’ hidden deep within Earth’s mantle that shouldn’t be there
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet’s mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth’s crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.
Jan 14, 2025
Altermagnets imaged at the nanoscale
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics
A recently-discovered class of magnets called altermagnets has been imaged in detail for the first time thanks to a technique developed by physicists at the University of Nottingham’s School of Physics and Astronomy in the UK. The team exploited the unique properties of altermagnetism to map the magnetic domains in the altermagnet manganese telluride (MnTe) down to the nanoscale level, raising hopes that its unusual magnetic ordering could be controlled and exploited in technological applications.
In most magnetically-ordered materials, the spins of atoms (that is, their magnetic moments) have two options: they can line up parallel with each other, or antiparallel, alternating up and down. These arrangements arise from the exchange interaction between atoms, and lead to ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, respectively.
Altermagnets, which were discovered in 2024, are different. While their neighbouring spins are antiparallel, like an antiferromagnet, the atoms hosting these spins are rotated relative to their neighbours. This means that they combine some properties from both types of conventional magnetism. For example, the up, down, up ordering of their spins leads to a net magnetization of zero because – as in antiferromagnets – the spins essentially cancel each other out. However, their spin splitting is non-relativistic, as in ferromagnets.