New Hope in Alzheimer’s Fight: Addressing Myelin Degradation Could Prevent Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/new-hope-in-alzheimers-fight-addressing-myelin-degradation-could-prevent-disease/

NVIDIA'S HUGE AI Chip Breakthroughs Change Everything (Supercut)

More details:

https://youtu.be/0EIwhvqCX1c

AI Singularity realistically by 2029: year-by-year milestones

Very interesting predictions here:

“2023: Human-like NLU (DONE = GPT-4)

2023: Simple disembodied AGIs (independently can do real-world stuff, hints of DONE)

2024: Mature NLU (hallucination & task iteration robustly solved)

2024: Advanced disembodied AGIs (reliably, independently can do real-world stuff)

2025: 1000s of androids are available for under $100K (minimally dexterous but decently conversational, barely beyond prototypes, but are able to learn some tasks)

2026: Earliest possible disembodied super intelligence-based AI Singularity(more likely around 2028)

2027: Millions of androids available for under $50K (highly dexterous, perfect human-like intelligence, they can guess what to do most of the time, learn quickly and 1000s of App Store domain expertises are available)

2028: Earliest possible android-based AI Singularity (more likely around 2030)

2029: Tens of mIllions of near-super intelligent androids available for around $25K (advanced human-like in almost every way, they can build themselves)”

https://medium.com/@paul.k.pallaghy/ai-singularity-realistically-by-2029-year-by-year-milestones-d7b3f8fa442c

Lab-Grown Meat Up To 25 Times Worse For The Environment Than Beef

Well this is unpleasant news:

https://www.iflscience.com/lab-grown-meat-up-to-25-times-worse-for-the-environment-than-beef-68859

NVIDIA'S HUGE AI Breakthroughs Just Changed Everything

Wow:

https://youtu.be/L6rJA0z2Kag

Unlimited Resolution – Unprecedented Microscopy Technique Is a “True Game-Changer”

https://scitechdaily.com/unlimited-resolution-unprecedented-microscopy-technique-is-a-true-game-changer/

Clean Energy 24/7: Engineers Use Nanotechnology To Harvest Electricity “From Thin Air”

 “And since humidity is ever-present, the harvester would run 24/7, rain or shine, at night and whether or not the wind blows, which solves one of the major problems of technologies like wind or solar, which only work under certain conditions.   

Finally, because air humidity diffuses in three-dimensional space and the thickness of the Air-gen device is only a fraction of the width of a human hair, many thousands of them can be stacked on top of each other, efficiently scaling up the amount of energy without increasing the footprint of the device. Such an Air-gen device would be capable of delivering kilowatt-level power for general electrical utility usage.”

https://scitechdaily.com/clean-energy-24-7-engineers-use-nanotechnology-to-harvest-electricity-from-thin-air/

Researchers Discover New Way To Fight the Aging Process

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-new-way-to-fight-the-aging-process/

New Strategy Could Eliminate Aging Cells

https://scitechdaily.com/new-strategy-could-eliminate-aging-cells/

Gene Editing Gets a Triple Boost: “Happy Accident” Leads to Enhanced CRISPR Efficiency

https://scitechdaily.com/gene-editing-gets-a-triple-boost-happy-accident-leads-to-enhanced-crispr-efficiency/

Scientists Invent a New Type of Battery – The Oxygen-Ion Battery

Promising but for this:

“The new battery concept is not intended for smartphones or electric cars, because the oxygen-ion battery only achieves about a third of the energy density that one is used to from lithium-ion batteries and runs at temperatures between 200 and 400 °C. The technology is, however, extremely interesting for storing energy.”

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-invent-a-new-type-of-battery-the-oxygen-ion-battery/

Promising New Dementia Treatment Discovered: Sodium Selenate

https://scitechdaily.com/promising-new-dementia-treatment-discovered-sodium-selenate/

New Harvard-Developed AI Predicts Future Pancreatic Cancer Up to Three Years Before Diagnosis

https://scitechdaily.com/new-harvard-developed-ai-predicts-future-pancreatic-cancer-up-to-three-years-before-diagnosis/

Researchers Solve One Piece of Alzheimer’s Puzzle

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-solve-one-piece-of-alzheimers-puzzle/

Clearing Toxic Waste Linked to Alzheimer’s – Study Finds Game-Changing Way To Boost Brain Immune Cells

https://scitechdaily.com/clearing-toxic-waste-linked-to-alzheimers-study-finds-game-changing-way-to-boost-brain-immune-cells/

Exciton Fission Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Photovoltaic Solar Cell Technology

This is exciting:

https://scitechdaily.com/exciton-fission-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-photovoltaic-solar-cell-technology/

Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's Drug Shows Greatest Benefit Yet

https://time.com/6276651/alzheimers-drug-eli-lilly-donanemab/

Revolutionizing Highways: Superconductors Unlock High-Speed Travel and Energy Transportation

https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionizing-highways-superconductors-unlock-high-speed-travel-and-energy-transportation/

Revolutionizing Quantum Circuits: Precision Engineering With Graphene

https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionizing-quantum-circuits-precision-engineering-with-graphene/

Not Science Fiction: Brain Activity Decoder Transforms Thoughts Into Text

Interesting, but limited so far:

“For example, in experiments, a participant listening to a speaker say, “I don’t have my driver’s license yet” had their thoughts translated as, “She has not even started to learn to drive yet.” Listening to the words, “I didn’t know whether to scream, cry or run away. Instead, I said, ‘Leave me alone!’” was decoded as, “Started to scream and cry, and then she just said, ‘I told you to leave me alone.’””

https://scitechdaily.com/not-science-fiction-brain-activity-decoder-transforms-thoughts-into-text/

Rust in the Brain: Iron’s Surprising Role in Alzheimer’s Uncovered

https://scitechdaily.com/rust-in-the-brain-irons-surprising-role-in-alzheimers-uncovered/

Turning Back the Clock: Genetic Engineers Rewire Cells for an 82% Increase in Lifespan

https://scitechdaily.com/turning-back-the-clock-genetic-engineers-rewire-cells-for-an-82-increase-in-lifespan/

New Hope for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Stanford Researchers Uncover New Pathway for Clearing Misfolded Proteins

https://scitechdaily.com/new-hope-for-neurodegenerative-diseases-stanford-researchers-uncover-new-pathway-for-clearing-misfolded-proteins/

AI vs MD: ChatGTP Outperforms Physicians in Providing High-Quality, Empathetic Healthcare Advice

AI has a consistently better bedside manner than human doctors:

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-vs-md-chatgtp-outperforms-physicians-in-providing-high-quality-empathetic-healthcare-advice/

Nvidia & Unreal's HUGE AI Breakthroughs (Bigger Than ChatGPT)

Months of work with huge computers now done in seconds on an iPhone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P254RGBZQIw

AI News is Getting Out of Hand!

The advances keep coming!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPLWZWsg4M

Simplifying the Future of Solar Energy: A Single-Step Solution-Coating Process for Perovskite Solar Cells

https://scitechdaily.com/simplifying-the-future-of-solar-energy-a-single-step-solution-coating-process-for-perovskite-solar-cells/

A Flash of Genius: Taming Electrons With Laser Precision for 1,000,000x Faster Electronics

https://scitechdaily.com/a-flash-of-genius-taming-electrons-with-laser-precision-for-a-1000000x-faster-electronics/

The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT

Yeah, this is a major blind spot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tWoPk25yU

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough? Common Sleeping Pill Reduces Levels of Disease Proteins

Better news:

https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-common-sleeping-pill-reduces-levels-of-disease-proteins/

NASA’s Super Alloy: A Breakthrough in 3D Printing Technology

https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-super-alloy-a-breakthrough-in-3d-printing-technology/

Genetic Risk Outweighs Age: Machine Learning Models Rank Predictive Risks for Alzheimer’s Disease

Ugh.

https://scitechdaily.com/genetic-risk-outweighs-age-machine-learning-models-rank-predictive-risks-for-alzheimers-disease/

Neural Nanotechnology: Nanowire Networks Learn and Remember Like a Human Brain

https://scitechdaily.com/neural-nanotechnology-nanowire-networks-learn-and-remember-like-a-human-brain/

MIT Neuroscientists Identify Brain Cells Most Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-neuroscientists-identify-brain-cells-most-vulnerable-to-alzheimers-disease/

This Longevity Study Across 5 Species Found a New Pathway to Reverse Aging

https://singularityhub.com/2023/04/18/this-longevity-study-across-5-species-found-a-new-pathway-to-reverse-aging/

The ‘Real’ World: AI Agents Plan Parties and Ask Each Other Out on Dates in 16-Bit Virtual Town

This is exactly the sort of step we would expect to see develop if it is true that we actually live in a virtual world:

https://singularityhub.com/2023/04/16/the-real-world-ai-agents-plan-parties-and-ask-each-other-out-on-dates-in-16-bit-virtual-town/

Activating Adult-Born Neurons: A Promising Approach for Alzheimer’s Treatment

https://scitechdaily.com/activating-adult-born-neurons-a-promising-approach-for-alzheimers-treatment/

How 3000 Degree Bricks Will End Battery Storage

https://youtu.be/R9XMWHFzPs8

A Sweet Clue to Alzheimer’s: Sugar Molecule Predicts Disease Risk

https://scitechdaily.com/a-sweet-clue-to-alzheimers-sugar-molecule-predicts-disease-risk/

Cracking the Alzheimer’s Code: A Groundbreaking New Approach to Visualizing the True Culprit

https://scitechdaily.com/cracking-the-alzheimers-code-a-groundbreaking-new-approach-to-visualizing-the-true-culprit/

Merck-Moderna Vaccine Helps Keep Patients Free From Skin Cancer

Good news:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-16/merck-moderna-mrk-mrna-vaccine-helps-keep-melanoma-patients-cancer-free

The A.I. Dilemma

This really feels like a technological singularity moment:

https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ

(The good stuff starts around 11 minutes in.)

1,000% Difference: Major Storage Capacity in Water-Based Batteries Found

https://scitechdaily.com/1000-difference-major-storage-capacity-in-water-based-batteries-found/

Magnetic Quantum Leap Unleashes Ultra-Fast Sustainable Computers

https://scitechdaily.com/magnetic-quantum-leap-unleashes-ultra-fast-sustainable-computers/

In 'major breakthrough,' new test can detect Parkinson's disease before symptoms appear

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/14/parkinsons-test-detect-disease-before-symptoms-appear/11648232002/

The Green IoT Dream: New Solar Cells and AI Create a Sustainable Powerhouse

https://scitechdaily.com/the-green-iot-dream-new-solar-cells-and-ai-create-a-sustainable-powerhouse/

“Remarkable” Brain Boosting Peptide: MIT Neuroscientists Discover Way To Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease

Impressive! In mice.

https://scitechdaily.com/remarkable-brain-boosting-peptide-mit-neuroscientists-discover-way-to-reverse-alzheimers-disease/

Scientists Have Overcome the “Biggest Roadblock” to Regenerating the Human Heart

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-overcome-the-biggest-roadblock-to-regenerating-the-human-heart/

Groundbreaking New Treatment Developed for Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-new-treatment-developed-for-alzheimers-disease/

These Self-Driving Cars Are Trained in a Simulation Packed With Terrible Drivers

I always assumed this would be the best way to train self-driving cars:

https://singularityhub.com/2023/03/31/to-make-self-driving-cars-safer-expose-them-to-terrible-drivers/

10x EV Range Boost With Revolutionary Lithium-Ion Battery Technology

https://scitechdaily.com/10x-ev-range-boost-with-revolutionary-lithium-ion-battery-technology/

DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI: Doing Years Of Research In Minutes!

https://youtu.be/1KQc6zHOmtU

Mind-Controlled Robots: New Graphene Sensors Are Turning Science Fiction Into Reality

https://scitechdaily.com/mind-controlled-robots-new-graphene-sensors-are-turning-science-fiction-into-reality/

GPT 4 Can Improve Itself - (ft. Reflexion, HuggingGPT, Bard Upgrade and much more)

Now A.I. is able to self-reflect to improve itself! And the ability to generate truly impressive video from a prompt…the acceleration is getting faster and faster!

https://youtu.be/5SgJKZLBrmg

Equivalent to a Forest the Size of Germany – A New Process To Capture Carbon Dioxide

0.5% is not a lot…

https://scitechdaily.com/equivalent-to-a-forest-the-size-of-germany-a-new-process-to-capture-carbon-dioxide/

Artificial Cells – The Powerhouse of the Future

https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-cells-the-powerhouse-of-the-future/

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Says

https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-says

GPT-5 expected this year, could make ChatGPT indistinguishable from a human

If this is true, we are definitely on the vertical leg of the exponential growth curve:

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/gpt-5-chatgpt-indistinguishable-human

Alzheimer’s updates

Unmasking Early Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease With Individualized Brain Fingerprints

https://scitechdaily.com/unmasking-early-warning-signs-of-alzheimers-disease-with-individualized-brain-fingerprints/

and

Astrocytic Breakthrough: A Game-Changing Biomarker for Early Alzheimer’s Detection

https://scitechdaily.com/astrocytic-breakthrough-a-game-changing-biomarker-for-early-alzheimers-detection/

Game-Changer Nasal Spray: A Universal Shield Against All COVID-19 Variants

https://scitechdaily.com/game-changer-nasal-spray-a-universal-shield-against-all-covid-19-variants/

Caltech Engineers Have Developed an Unusually Tough New Material

That knot reminds me of the one my father and I used for tying secure fishing lures:

https://scitechdaily.com/caltech-engineers-have-developed-an-unusually-tough-new-material/

Stephen Thaler Claims He’s Built a Sentient AI

I wouldn’t go that far, but it does sound impressive:

https://thenewstack.io/stephen-thaler-claims-hes-built-a-sentient-ai/

A Massive Upgrade To ChatGPT! (This is Crazy)

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

'Sparks of AGI' - Bombshell GPT-4 Paper: Fully Read w/ 15 Revelations

Hold on to yer butts!

(AGI means Artificial General Intelligence, meaning machines that have parity with human intelligence.)

https://youtu.be/Mqg3aTGNxZ0

AI image creator comes to Microsoft Bing

I can’t wait until this is fully integrated into Bing. Then I’ll have to seriously consider switching to it from Google. Being able to create all my own pictures for my videos will be terrific:

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/21/microsoft-bing-ai-image-creator

Promising New Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease: Modifying Key Messenger RNA

https://scitechdaily.com/promising-new-treatment-for-alzheimers-disease-modifying-key-messenger-rna/

Previously Unknown Driver of Aging Discovered – Simple Supplement May Reverse It

https://scitechdaily.com/previously-unknown-driver-of-aging-discovered-simple-supplement-may-reverse-it/

“Counterportation” – Landmark Quantum Breakthrough Paves Way for World-First Experimental Wormhole

https://scitechdaily.com/counterportation-landmark-quantum-breakthrough-paves-way-for-world-first-experimental-wormhole/

Google flexes its health care AI muscle

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/15/google-ai-chatgpt-healthcare-youtube-chatbot-health

But I do disagree with this line:

“The bottom line: Medicine will always need to rely on a healthy mix of technology and human know-how.”

Once again, they’re not looking forward enough. If AI can pass medical exams at “expert” level right now, what do you think five more years will accomplish? Even three more years could potentially prove that claim wrong.

When "scary good" AI gets even better

An update already??

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/15/gpt4-openai-chatgpt-new-version

Googles's NEW INSANE PALM-E SHOCKS The Entire Industry! (PaLM-E Google ANNOUNCED!)

I was expecting this to appear in another year or two, but it’s here already: integrating AI with robots to use natural language instructions:

https://youtu.be/2BYC4_MMs8I

Again, game-changing.

Milk, cheese and ice cream without the cow has entered the marketplace

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/12/precision-cultivated-dairy/

Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Detoxing Body of Harmful Fat By-Products To Extend Lifespan

https://scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-breakthrough-detoxing-body-of-harmful-fat-by-products-to-extend-lifespan/

Scientists Have Discovered an Enzyme That Converts Air Into Electricity

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-discovered-an-enzyme-that-converts-air-into-electricity/

Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64886116

The End of Lithium P3! Elon Musk Revealed ALL-NEW Shock Battery Tech, Change Entire Industry!

https://youtu.be/Zq5FWLhlzDQ

Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/3/6/23624015/silicon-valley-generative-ai-chat-gpt-crypto-hype-trend

Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Silicon Encoded Spin Qubits Achieve Universality

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-computing-breakthrough-silicon-encoded-spin-qubits-achieve-universality/

I Created An AI Boyfriend. I Was Shocked By How I Felt After Just 3 Days With Him.

This is exactly where I think the next phase of AI is going: forming relationships:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ai-chatgpt-bot-boyfriend_n_63f7dd2be4b04ff5b488ff84

I strongly disagree with the claim at the end that she doesn’t think AI will eventually master forming true connections, though, at least as far as we’ll be able to tell. It’s not a big leap to get there from here, especially considering the huge leap from where we were a decade ago to here.

AI System Identifies New Drug Candidates for Parkinson’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/semantic-similarity-ai-system-identifies-new-drug-candidates-for-parkinsons-disease/

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough As Scientists Link NAD+ Supplements to Reduced Biomarkers in the Brain

https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-as-scientists-link-nad-supplements-to-reduced-biomarkers-in-the-brain/

Robots Could Be Doing Almost Half of Our Household Chores Within a Decade

That’s what I predicted:

https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/27/robots-could-be-doing-almost-half-of-our-household-chores-within-a-decade/

Limitless Possibilities – AI Technology Generates Original Proteins From Scratch

https://scitechdaily.com/limitless-possibilities-ai-technology-generates-original-proteins-from-scratch/

Surpassing All Existing Designs – Researchers Develop High-Voltage Microbattery With Exceptional Energy and Power Density

https://scitechdaily.com/surpassing-all-existing-designs-researchers-develop-high-voltage-microbattery-with-exceptional-energy-and-power-density/

Try ChatGPT!

If you haven’t tried ChatGPT yet, you really should:

https://chat.openai.com/chat

I asked it to have an intermediate level German conversation with me and also translate its responses into English, and it worked very well. We had a back-and-forth about pets, with it contributing well to the conversation. Then I asked if it could correct my mistakes, which it did with subsequent conversation, including explanations correcting the mistakes. Then I asked to translate the previous dialog into Norwegian, which it did just fine. Try it for almost anything that interests you.

The writing is on the wall. I foresee people having personalized companion robots (especially useful for lonely aging populations) within the next few years. 

Quantum Physicists Make Nanoscopic Breakthrough of Colossal Significance

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-physicists-make-nanoscopic-breakthrough-of-colossal-significance/

Perovskites, a 'dirt cheap' alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient

“By using a substrate of either a layer of metal or alternating layers of metal and dielectric material—rather than glass—he and his co-authors found they could increase the perovskite's light conversion efficiency by 250%.”

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-perovskites-dirt-cheap-alternative-silicon.html

New Blood Test Detects Alzheimer’s Disease 3.5 Years Before Clinical Diagnosis

Helpful, but still not soon enough, considering Alzheimer’s starts 20 years before symptoms start to show:the middle of a

https://scitechdaily.com/new-blood-test-detects-alzheimers-disease-3-5-years-before-clinical-diagnosis/

MIT Physicists Discover Way To Switch Superconductivity On and Off in “Magic-Angle” Graphene

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-physicists-discover-way-to-switch-superconductivity-on-and-off-in-magic-angle-graphene/

Increasing Lifespan by 10%: Scientists Identify a New Promising Anti-Aging Drug

https://scitechdaily.com/increasing-lifespan-by-10-scientists-identify-a-new-promising-anti-aging-drug/

Human Mini-Brains Grafted Into Injured Rats Restored Their Sight

Impressive. Perhaps a stopgap measure for dealing with Alzheimer’s?

https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/07/human-mini-brains-grafted-into-injured-rats-restored-their-sight/

This Vegan Egg Makes Its Debut in US Restaurants This Week

https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/08/this-vegan-egg-makes-its-debut-in-us-restaurants-this-week/

Experts say she will end humanity. Here’s the fix, w Elon Musk, ChatGPT, AI robots

This gives a great and entertaining summary of where AI is leading us:

https://youtu.be/zpRM25pUD8w

MIT Engineers Grow “Perfect” Atom-Thin Materials

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials/

Electric car batteries get a second life storing solar power

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/07/electric-car-batteries-solar-power-storage

Inside The Race To Tap A Controversial Source Of Carbon-Free Energy: Nuclear Waste

“If we just get to the 95% of energy left over in spent uranium fuel, it would be easier to stop burning so many planet-heating fossil fuels. And using more of that energy would shorten the period the final waste product needed to decay back to the radiation levels of uranium mined from the Earth.

“We’re looking at ways to recycle used nuclear fuel because it reduces the amount of waste that has to be disposed of,” Hawthorne said in a conference room outside her lab one morning last October. “It also decreases the amount of time the waste has to be isolated for, from about 300,000 years to about 300 years.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuclear-waste-solution_n_63dd62f3e4b01e928871180a

Uncovering the Link Between Immune Cells and Cognitive Decline: Study Offers a New Way to Tackle Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/uncovering-the-link-between-immune-cells-and-cognitive-decline-study-offers-a-new-way-to-tackle-alzheimers-disease/

Scientists Use Exotic DNA To Help Create “Climate-Proof” Crops

This could be critical to our survival:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-use-exotic-dna-to-help-create-climate-proof-crops/

Heart Disease Breakthrough: New Immune Target Discovered

https://scitechdaily.com/heart-disease-breakthrough-new-immune-target-discovered/

Scoop: Biden's EV surprise

Nice. 

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/01/electric-car-ev-tax-incentives-biden