New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-remember-agi/

Would You Eat ‘Meat’ from a Lab? Consumers Aren’t Necessarily Sold on ‘Cultured Meat’

It's not encouraging now, but I'll bet that changes. It always seems to:

https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/31/would-you-eat-meat-from-a-lab-consumers-arent-necessarily-sold-on-cultured-meat/

How China Is Quickly Becoming an AI Superpower

Ugh. Looks like the US lead in AI is about to go bye-bye bigly:

https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/29/china-ai-superpower/

California Lawmakers Pass Historic Bill Mandating Only Carbon-Free Power By 2045

This is one reason I love living in CA:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-100-percent-clean-energy_us_5b219200e4b09d7a3d79fbba

China added as much battery-storage capacity in 2018 as all previous years combined

Come on, 'Merka!

https://qz.com/1371099/china-added-as-much-battery-storage-capacity-in-2018-as-all-previous-years-combined/

If We Ever Want Artificial General Intelligence, Governments Need To Invest In It

Some projects just need the resources and broader spectrum a government can provide (although I'm not sure I buy the argument that private industry won't want to create AI or that it's that far away):

https://futurism.com/artificial-general-intelligence-governments-invest/

It’s the year 2038–here’s how we’ll eat 20 years in the future

https://www.fastcompany.com/90222618/what-the-future-of-food-will-look-like-in-2038

Sony's New Aibo Robot Dog Is Nearly $3,000, But It Can Tell How You're Feeling

Robot pets are getting better and better:

http://time.com/5376649/sony-aibo-robot-dog-america/

Will Machine Learning AI Make Human Translators An Endangered Species?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/08/24/will-machine-learning-ai-make-human-translators-an-endangered-species/#2606c3902315

The Future of Cars Is Electric, Autonomous, and Shared—Here’s How We’ll Get There

https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/23/the-future-of-cars-is-electric-autonomous-and-shared-heres-how-well-get-there/

Why the Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think

Predictions from Peter Diamandis:

https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/22/why-the-future-is-arriving-faster-than-you-think/

Landmark FDA Approval Brings Powerful Gene Silencing Method to Market

"Earlier this month, the FDA approved an entirely new family of drugs, one so powerful that it could put CRISPR-based gene therapy to shame."

https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/21/landmark-fda-approval-brings-powerful-gene-silencing-method-to-market

Algorithms Outpace Moore’s Law for AI

"Professor Martin Groetschel observed that a linear programming problem that would take 82 years to solve in 1988 could be solved in one minute in 2003. Hardware accounted for 1,000 times speedup, while algorithmic advance accounted for 43,000 times. Similarly, MIT professor Dimitris Bertsimas showed that the algorithm speedup between 1991 and 2013 for mixed integer solvers was 580,000 times, while the hardware speedup of peak supercomputers increased only a meager 320,000 times."

https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1333617

Could this mean AI may arrive a lot sooner than anticipated?

Machine learning: Japan to boost English teaching in schools with AI robots

$227,000 for a robot to teach English? Um...isn't there a free app for that (#Duolingo)?

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2160678/circuits-love-japan-boost-english-schools-ai-robots

Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind

How we should change education to fit a rapidly-changing society:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yuval-noah-harari-extract-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century

Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

This seems so clunky, yet it's almost as efficient as lithium-ion batteries:

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

You Can Now Buy The World’s First Graphene Jacket, And It’s Everything You Want It To Be

At $695 it's too expensive right now...but that'll change:

https://futurism.com/graphene-jacket-vollebak/

What if A.I. is coming for jobs faster than we thought?

This is more like I was thinking it would be:

https://bigthink.com/alex-salkever/what-if-ai-is-coming-for-jobs-faster-than-we-thought

The next major innovation in batteries might be here

This innovation to DOUBLE battery energy storage is a little more promising than most:

https://qz.com/1349245/the-next-major-innovation-in-batteries-might-be-here/

DARPA will fund 18 month experiments of potential AI breakthroughs

Yay DARPA:

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-07-20a

Why China will win the global race for complete AI dominance

They're serious about A.I. because it's the one technology they can do as well as anyone:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/why-china-will-win-the-global-battle-for-ai-dominance

Graphene and Beyond: The Astonishing Properties and Promise of 2D Materials

https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/05/beyond-graphene-the-promise-of-2d-materials/

Your Life in 2027: A Look at the Future | Vivek Wadhwa

This is a great summary of what technology we can expect to see over the next decade or so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0wy0YYzU0s

In the Future, We’ll Know Everything—Thanks to This Tech

Sensors will be ubiquitous:

https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/02/in-the-future-well-know-everything-thanks-to-this-tech/

Five of the scariest predictions about artificial intelligence

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/five-of-the-scariest-predictions-for-ai.html