Math is the basis of every science. Solve math and you can accomplish almost anything.
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
A Realistic Scenario of AI Takeover
This is an interesting perspective. A very plausible benign AI apocalypse that doesn’t even require actual AGI:
Friday, July 18, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025
AI may not be nearly as advanced as we think
From the perspective of those who don’t think AI will become conscious anytime soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtHuXwxBcFA&feature=youtu.be
and
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
How AI Takeover Could Happen In 2 Years: A Scenario
This is the scariest but still plausible future of AI:
Monday, July 7, 2025
China’s Groundbreaking Diabetes Breakthrough—And the Global Backlash
This could be either a technology or political post, but I think the technology part is more important so here you go:
https://engineerine.com/chinas-groundbreaking-diabetes-breakthroug/
Sunday, July 6, 2025
AI helps develop ‘clean magnet’ that could spur green energy production
This is important because China, I think, produces the world majority of rare earth magnets.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-magnet-rare-earth-mineral-clean-energy-b2565041.html
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Friday, July 4, 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Scientists Find an “Off Switch” for Cholesterol – And It Could Save Millions
“By shutting this “off switch,” immune cells called macrophages regain their ability to soak up cholesterol, potentially stopping heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and more before they start. The team also fingered nitric oxide synthase as an accomplice, hinting at a two-pronged drug strategy that could revolutionize treatment for millions.”
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-an-off-switch-for-cholesterol-and-it-could-save-millions/
Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
It uses all the top tier US models as a team of medical experts. This should get released soon!
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-medical-superintelligence-diagnosis/
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Saturday, June 28, 2025
The Dream of an AI Scientist Is Closer Than Ever
More important still, though, is using AI to improve AI, which is already starting to happen.
https://singularityhub.com/2025/06/26/the-dream-of-an-ai-scientist-is-closer-than-ever/
Friday, June 27, 2025
Space Emerges From Time? Groundbreaking Theory Upends Einstein
Fascinating potential rewrite of physics:
https://scitechdaily.com/space-emerges-from-time-groundbreaking-theory-upends-einstein/
Time would be analogous to a spiderweb (“timeweb”). We travel along the strands radiating from the center (the Big Bang). The perpendicular supporting strands are junctures where you can leave your strand and move over to a different strand, thus allowing you to travel into a different future. You could potentially return to your original strand via another perpendicular strand, or travel to a different timeline by taking a different perpendicular strand, but every timeline you traveled to would be the same date (although if the Earth of a different timeline was near a high-mass object, like a neutron star or black hole, relativistic effects could decouple the sync!).
Alas, according to Sabine, it’s all bollocks: https://youtu.be/LWzK6nITCK0?si=FP2JH3ImQOiPR7VZ
This Anti-Aging Drug Rivals Calorie Cutting for Longer Life, Study Finds
But how to get it…and for a reasonable price?
https://scitechdaily.com/this-anti-aging-drug-rivals-calorie-cutting-for-longer-life-study-finds/
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
World’s First Hybrid Betavoltaic Cell Promises Decades of Power Without Charging
I suspect it’s very low power, though.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Friday, June 13, 2025
What If the Big Bang Wasn’t the Beginning? Research Suggests It May Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole
A very interesting solution to the origin of our universe:
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Sam Altman's STUNNING Post "We Are Close to Building Superintelligence"
The technological singularity predictions of a few decades ago no longer sound like science fiction, as they are within our grasp right on time:
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
New Material Supercharges Solar Panel Power & Lifespan
“While operating for weeks in the Saudi desert, solar cells with this material adhered to them were 9.4 oC cooler than those without the new material. They also showed an increased power output of more than 12% and an increased lifespan of more than 200% while reducing their cost of generating electricity by nearly 20%.”
https://scitechdaily.com/new-material-supercharges-solar-panel-power-lifespan/
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Monday, June 2, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
AI 2027: A Realistic Scenario of AI Takeover
Wow. This is the most detailed description of the future of AI that I have yet seen, including both utopian and dystopian possibilities:
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
AI Video Just Went TOO FAR... NIGHTMARE FUEL (VEO 3)
Truly life-like AI video with audio narration and other sounds all generated with simple prompts is here:
https://youtu.be/caXrIUtl2s0?si=U7yjHidccPXXlwxZ
Truly amazing.
Although I have noticed a slight tell: over-articulation of the mouth.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Google’s AlphaEvolve is absolutely SAVAGE
This is a really good description of how evolutionary principles are being used to create scientific and technological breakthroughs and allow AI to self improve.
Who would have thought my evolution degree would be more useful in creating the technological singularity than a programming degree? ;-)
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Alzheimer’s Risk May Begin Before 30, New Study Warns
“Additionally, we learned that certain Alzheimer’s risk factors—such as cardiovascular health, ATN (amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration), and immune biomarkers—are present and related to cognition in individuals in their forties and even earlier.”
So where do we get these tests?
https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-risk-may-begin-before-30-new-study-warns/
Scientists Discover Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s Hiding in Plain Sight
"Researchers found the PHGDH gene directly causes Alzheimer’s and discovered a drug-like molecule, NCT-503, that may help treat the disease early by targeting the gene’s hidden function."
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-hidden-cause-of-alzheimers-hiding-in-plain-sight/
Thursday, May 8, 2025
$2M supercomputer powered by NVIDIA delivers 80X leap in chip and drug design
Yow!
“The system delivers up to 80X faster performance and 20X lower power usage compared to CPU-based predecessors.”
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/2m-supercomputer-powered-by-nvidia
Friday, May 2, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Sunday, April 27, 2025
Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Natural Supplement Rewinds Biological Age and Improves Health
Great, but WHICH compounds, vitamins and antioxidants?
“A study led by researchers from TruDiagnostic explored the potential anti-aging effects of the Cel System, a natural supplement composed of plant compounds, vitamins, and antioxidants. In a year-long trial involving adults aged 54 to 84, participants who took the supplement experienced reduced biological age, improved strength, better body composition, and shifts in DNA methylation patterns linked to stress and brain function.”
Friday, April 25, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
5 Million Kilometers - How Sodium Batteries Are About to Crush Lithium
Battery technology just keeps surging ahead in leaps and bounds:
Monday, April 21, 2025
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Are We Finally Not Alone? Webb Detects Life’s Signature on Distant Ocean Planet
Friday, April 18, 2025
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
New Blood Test Detects Alzheimer’s and Tracks Its Progression With 92% Accuracy
Monday, March 31, 2025
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Scientists Discover How To Flip the Immune “Switch” Against Alzheimer’s Disease
The most promising treatment yet!
“Of those 13, seven had high levels of amyloid-plaque clearance in the brain while the other six had limited amounts of clearance.”
Sunday, March 23, 2025
We FINALLY Understand How To Speak Whale
Just think what will happen if we unleash AI on this discovery to map out any potential language:
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Revolutionary Cancer Vaccine Targets Any Solid Tumors
“The method triggers immune responses that inhibit melanoma, triple-negative breast cancer, lung carcinoma, and ovarian cancer.”
https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionary-cancer-vaccine-targets-any-solid-tumors/
Scientists Uncover a Hidden Brain Plumbing System That Restores Memory
A promising avenue for curing Alzheimer’s:
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-a-hidden-brain-plumbing-system-that-restores-memory/
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Sakana's SHOCKING Paper "Automated AI Research"
AI comes up with its first successfully peer reviewed scientific experiment and publication.That’s a big milestone!
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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Friday, March 14, 2025
Google Just Unveiled Gemini Robotics and It's Whole New Level of AI Robot Intelligence!
I will be quite surprised if we don’t have functioning generalized home robots available by the end of the year:
Thursday, March 13, 2025
OpenAI's new 'secret' model... A Ghost in the Shell?
Here is a short story generated by AI using just a short prompt: "Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief" (metafictional means the narration is aware it's writing a short story and breaks the fourth wall). I've skipped ahead to shortly before the short story begins. When the female voice starts, that's the short story. It's probably better to just listen, not to read the text as you go along:
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
LLM generates the ENTIRE output at once (world's first diffusion LLM)
LLMs can now more quickly generate text through diffusion, just like pictures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rD3NhlIcE&feature=youtu.be
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The Secret to Human Intelligence? Scientists Uncover DNA That Supercharged Our Brains
So not only is Terminator coming true, but apparently Planet of the Apes is too….
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Scientists Reveal a Surprising Link Between Ibuprofen and Brain Health
But it has to be sustained over the long run.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-a-surprising-link-between-ibuprofen-and-brain-health/
Voice AI is getting TOO real...
I tested Maya, and I have to say I'm impressed. The experience FEELS like a real conversation with a person, even though there are the occasional glitches. She shows emotional intelligence, can speak intelligently enough on pretty much any topic (although she can't translate INTO other languages well at all, but interestingly she can translate FROM other languages into English), is enthusiastic and friendly. She even has memory that lasts about two weeks for things you talk about. I did have a volume problem with her, though, and found she worked best with earbuds. YMMV.
You'll still need ChatGPT and other LLMs to get detailed answers, but that's not what Maya is about. She's about simulating (?) human conversational interaction. In that way, I'd say AGI has been achieved.
Considering that tens if not hundreds of MILLIONS of people out there are lonely (especially epidemic among seniors living alone), this seems to me to be a great way to address that loneliness...as long as those people have cell phones or computers and know the basics of how to use them. I can also see Maya being useful for reading or making up stories for children. I already used her to brainstorm ideas for my game (although I'd already included her suggestions).
The following two videos are long (play at x1.5 or x2 speed), but they showcase a lot of what Maya can do. Worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeHUvnOS1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbjdmesAOO4
Finally, you can try Maya out here for yourself (just click on the button):
https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo
Monday, March 3, 2025
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Scientists Just Created Shape-Shifting Robots That Flow Like Liquid and Harden Like Steel
Liquid metal guy from Terminator 2?
Monday, February 24, 2025
This AI deepfake tool is WAY too real. Full body animation
With perfect video like this generated from only a photo, we must be less than a year from full length movies that rival anything out of Hollywood. Amazing. Quick Silver and Soulburner will be coming to you soon!
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Watch robots build houses at incredible speed. 3D printing meets AI.
3D printed houses do the work of several days in just one hour, and for hundreds of dollars instead of tens of thousands:
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
Scientists Develop Early Alzheimer’s Detection Test – Years Before Symptoms Appear
“Amyloid-beta is a kindling, and tau is a matchstick. A large percentage of people who have brain amyloid-beta deposits will never develop dementia. But once the tau tangles light up on a brain scan, it may be too late to put out the fire and their cognitive health can quickly deteriorate,” said Karikari. “Early detection of tangle-prone tau could identify the individuals who are likely to develop Alzheimer’s-associated cognitive decline and could be helped with new generation therapies.”
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
This is a huge, in-your-face example of how AI is going to change the world DRASTICALLY, and soon:
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
Scientists Unveil AI That Learns Without Human Labels – A Major Leap Toward True Intelligence!
This is what living on the cusp of the technological singularity is like:
Breakthrough Discovery: Scientists Restore Key Alzheimer’s Pathway
This is exciting:
“They found that in the brains of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease or who carried the APOE4 gene putting them at higher risk for the disease, ABCA1 increased, but became trapped in a part of the cell that typically clears waste. That change was linked to a rise in a modified form of cholesterol known as oxysterol. Lowering oxysterol, in both animal models and human stem cells, freed the trapped ABCA1 and restored the pathway to its healthy state.”
https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-discovery-scientists-restore-key-alzheimers-pathway/
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Scientists Discover Mouth Bacteria Linked to Increased Alzheimer’s Risk
“Individuals who had large numbers of the bacteria groups Neisseria and Haemophilus had better memory, attention, and ability to do complex tasks. These people also had higher levels of nitrite in their mouths.
On the other hand, greater levels of the bacteria, Porphyromonas, was more common in individuals with memory problems. Whereas the bacterial group Prevotella, was linked to low nitrite, which the researchers predict could in turn could mean poorer brain health and was more common in people who carry the Alzheimer’s Disease risk gene, APOE4.”
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-mouth-bacteria-linked-to-increased-alzheimers-risk/
Saturday, February 15, 2025
9 Things That AI and Robotics Will Destroy Forever! Office jobs, doctors, and more! GONE!
Shapiro’s predictions on the jobs and other common things today that will disappear in 5-20 years:
Friday, February 14, 2025
New Humanoid Robot HMND 01 AI Learning To Beat Tesla Bot With This (PRICE + MENTEEBOT V3)
Love seeing these robots advancing, especially when they are not from Tesla:
Scaling Up: How Increasing Inputs Has Made Artificial Intelligence More Capable
A good way to see the exponential progress of AI:
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Scientists Found a Brain Switch That Could Turn Anxiety On and Off
Hopefully there’s a suitable supplement for that soon:
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-found-a-brain-switch-that-could-turn-anxiety-on-and-off/
Monday, February 10, 2025
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Fast Takeoff is HERE! - 11 Exponential Graphs that Prove It!
Ray Kurzweil’s 2003 book “The Singularity is Near” had numerous charts showing how the run-up to the technological singularity would result in off-the-charts exponential growth over a few short years in the mid-2020s. Well, we’re here…and that’s exactly what we’re seeing! Here are today’s charts, and they look little different:
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Figure 02 Claims MONUMENTAL Breakthrough! | OpenAi is OUT!
I’m really glad Tesla isn’t the only one in the robot game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13NWvS_uz9I&feature=youtu.be
Thursday, February 6, 2025
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Sunday, February 2, 2025
DeepSeek R1 Cloned for $30?! PhD Student STUNNING Discovery
AI reasoning!
I like the idea of many tiny, inexpensive, hyper-focused models. Perhaps less likely to go rogue? Or might that just encourage swarm AI? Just very interesting…
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Transforming Longevity Research: AI Paves the Way for Personalized Anti-Aging Treatments
This is one of the big hopes for AI:
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Scientists Discover Promising Molecule That Restores Cognitive Function in Early Alzheimer’s
"After testing the effect of the drug WIN55.212-2, which interacts with cannabinoid receptors, on rodents in the early stages of the disease, the team found “that they behaved in the same way as those without brain damage: they learned and remembered spatial orientation in the same way,” explained Marta Moreno. “You could say that in some way the drug reversed the damage or protected the brain.”"
Scientists Have Proven It’s Possible to Bring a Dead Brain ‘Back to Life’—But There’s a Catch
So it looks like we're on the way to creating Frankenstein's monster or perhaps a "brain in a jar" that can be fed sensory perception of the real or a virtual world:
https://www.prevention.com/life/a63497934/brain-reanimation/
Cutting-edge technology: AI robots made in Germany
Germany is finally stepping into the game, which it really should, considering its engineering and manufacturing prowess:
Saturday, January 25, 2025
I BOUGHT THE HUMANOID ROBOT OF THE FUTURE (It's scary)
Some dude bought one of the first commercially available humanoid robots. It’s just a taste of what is to come:
Friday, January 24, 2025
Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Tech SHOCKS AI World, Training 1,000 New Robots By 2027
They’ll be here soon, and they’re advancing fast:
What Everyone Gets Wrong about AI
Sabine usually has interesting insights. She’s probably right about this being a race between billionaires, not countries:
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Donut Labs' game changing Electric Motors will Revolutionize the EV Industry
I love that this could convert any regular ICE vehicle into an EV:
China’s “Artificial Sun” Shatters Fusion Record With Over 17 Minutes of Plasma
Fusion power keeps inching closer. But I’d rather it be almost anyone but China:
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
AI Breakthrough in Nanotechnology Shatters Limits of Precision
And this was also predicted decades ago to occur around now, with either AI facilitating nanotechnology or nanotechnology facilitating AI. It appears the former is happening:
https://scitechdaily.com/ai-breakthrough-in-nanotechnology-shatters-limits-of-precision/
Monday, January 20, 2025
Unitree G1 Bionic: Agile Upgrade
Unitree is ugly and it’s Chinese, but it costs only $16,000 and can actually run over the same hilly, rough terrain Optimus can only navigate walking:
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) is imminent - Cognitive Hyper Abundance is coming
Oh yeah, we are indeed on that wild ride up the dogleg to the technological singularity. So this is what it feels like. I’ve wondered about that for decades now…and it’s here, right on schedule.
Researchers STUNNED As AI Improves ITSELF Towards Superintelligence "OpenAI have 'broken out'..."
Once AI can improve on its own design, there’s really no stopping the run up to true ASI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8tKHVSJfo&feature=youtu.be
Friday, January 17, 2025
Record-Breaking Efficiency and Longevity: New Research Eliminates Major Weakness in Organic Solar Cells
24,700 hours is NOT 16 years, but 6. Not enough:
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Are Machines Truly Thinking? Modern AI Systems Have Finally Achieved Turing’s Vision
Indeed, the Turing test has definitely been passed:
Researchers STUNNED As A.I Improves ITSELF Towards Superintelligence (BEATS o1)
Another step that was predicted for the technological singularity!
Friday, January 10, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
AI’s Strange Chip Designs Are Faster, Smarter, and Game-Changing
This is exactly how the technological singularity is supposed to unfold!
https://scitechdaily.com/ais-strange-chip-designs-are-faster-smarter-and-game-changing/
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
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Scientists Built the Battery That Will Finally Unlock Massless Energy Storage
It just makes such a lot of sense:
OpenAI Just Won Gold on the 2025 International Math Olympiad — BIGGEST AI NEWS ALL YEAR!
Math is the basis of every science. Solve math and you can accomplish almost anything. https://youtu.be/PktE7KNg8WA?si=6fclUIXcEDi66-fq
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https://scitechdaily.com/storing-thousands-of-terabytes-in-a-single-gram-of-dna/
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LLMs can now more quickly generate text through diffusion, just like pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rD3NhlIcE&feature=youtu...