When Will Fusion Energy Light Our Homes?

As usual, not encouraging:

https://nautil.us/when-will-fusion-energy-light-our-homes-259169/

Mimicking the Mind: Quantum Material Exhibits Brain-Like “Non-Local” Behavior

https://scitechdaily.com/mimicking-the-mind-quantum-material-exhibits-brain-like-non-local-behavior/?expand_article=1

Chinese Scientists Develop a High-Performance Ultralong-Life Aqueous Zinc-Ion Battery

Ugh, China.

https://scitechdaily.com/chinese-scientists-develop-a-high-performance-ultralong-life-aqueous-zinc-ion-battery/

ChatGPT Tests Into Top 1% for Original Creative Thinking

And the dominoes keep falling:

https://scitechdaily.com/chatgpt-tests-into-top-1-for-original-creative-thinking/

How Dead is Moore's Law?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g

Tau-PET: A New, Better Way To Predict Cognitive Decline

https://scitechdaily.com/tau-pet-a-new-better-way-to-predict-cognitive-decline/?expand_article=1

Conclusive Evidence for Modified Gravity: Collapse of Newton’s and Einstein’s Theories in Low Acceleration

https://scitechdaily.com/conclusive-evidence-for-modified-gravity-collapse-of-newtons-and-einsteins-theories-in-low-acceleration/?expand_article=1

Reversing Alzheimer’s: Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise

https://scitechdaily.com/reversing-alzheimers-stem-cell-therapy-shows-promise/

THz Waves – A New Potential Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/thz-waves-a-new-potential-treatment-for-alzheimers-disease/?expand_article=1

2nd nuclear fusion breakthrough brings us a (tiny) step closer to limitless clean energy

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/2nd-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-brings-us-a-tiny-step-closer-to-limitless-clean-energy

4 Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down

https://time.com/6300942/ai-progress-charts/

Scientists Discover New Promising Target for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-new-promising-target-for-alzheimers-disease-treatment/

New Potential Drug Target for Alzheimer’s Disease Discovered

https://scitechdaily.com/new-potential-drug-target-for-alzheimers-disease-discovered/

Aging and the Brain: How Probiotics Could Slow Cognitive Decline

https://scitechdaily.com/aging-and-the-brain-how-probiotics-could-slow-cognitive-decline/?expand_article=1

Scientists Use Bacteria To Make Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-use-bacteria-to-make-renewable-infinitely-recyclable-plastics/?expand_article=1

Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-new-material-five-times-lighter-and-four-times-stronger-than-steel/

Innovative New Vaccine May Hold Key To Treating and Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/innovative-new-vaccine-may-hold-key-to-treating-and-preventing-alzheimers-disease/

The Future of Immunity: The Exciting Progress of Universal Vaccines

 https://scitechdaily.com/the-future-of-immunity-the-exciting-progress-of-universal-vaccines/

Record-Breaking Solar Hydrogen Device: Turning Sunlight Into Clean Energy

https://scitechdaily.com/record-breaking-solar-hydrogen-device-turning-sunlight-into-clean-energy/

AI-generated "South Park"

AI generates a whole short South Park episode from just a few prompts. It won’t win any awards for quality, but that AI can do this at all is very impressive:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-whats-next-6f6c0edf-8bb4-4876-9d8e-13c459219004.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1

Scientists recently reported taking the first X-ray image of a single atom

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-science/

Extracting a Clean Fuel From Water – A Groundbreaking Low-Cost Catalyst

https://scitechdaily.com/extracting-a-clean-fuel-from-water-a-groundbreaking-low-cost-catalyst/

Record-Breaking Energy Storage: Nanosheet Technology Takes Dielectric Capacitors to New Heights

https://scitechdaily.com/record-breaking-energy-storage-nanosheet-technology-takes-dielectric-capacitors-to-new-heights/?expand_article=1

Donanemab: The Breakthrough Drug Ushering a New Era in Alzheimer’s Treatment

https://scitechdaily.com/donanemab-the-breakthrough-drug-ushering-a-new-era-in-alzheimers-treatment/?expand_article=1

Aging Breakthrough: Scientists Discover a New Molecule That Can Purge “Zombie” Cells

https://scitechdaily.com/aging-breakthrough-scientists-discover-a-new-molecule-that-can-purge-zombie-cells/

Artificial Intelligence Unlocks New Possibilities in Anti-Aging Medicine

https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-unlocks-new-possibilities-in-anti-aging-medicine/?expand_article=1

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough: Inhaling Menthol Improves Cognitive Ability

“We have focused on the olfactory system’s role in the immune and central nervous systems, and we have confirmed that menthol is an immunostimulatory odor in animal models. But, surprisingly, we observed that short exposures to this substance for six months prevented cognitive decline in the mice with Alzheimer’s and, what is most interesting, also improved the cognitive ability of healthy young mice.”

https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-inhaling-menthol-improves-cognitive-ability/?expand_article=1

Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation

Well this does sound impressive:

https://scitechdaily.com/age-reversal-breakthrough-harvard-mit-discovery-could-enable-whole-body-rejuvenation/

Harnessing Bacteria and Sunlight: A Revolutionary Path to Sustainable Energy

https://scitechdaily.com/harnessing-bacteria-and-sunlight-a-revolutionary-path-to-sustainable-energy/

Discovery of chemical means to reverse aging and restore cellular function

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-discovery-chemical-reverse-aging-cellular.html

Potentially Unlimited Supply – Scientists Grow Meat From Immortal Stem Cells

https://scitechdaily.com/potentially-unlimited-supply-scientists-grow-meat-from-immortal-stem-cells/

Microsoft LongNet: One BILLION Tokens LLM + OpenAI SuperAlignment [SINGULARITY APPROACHES]

AI is growing insanely fast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0wBMDoFkP0

First Alzheimer’s drug to slow disease progression gets full FDA approval, triggering broader Medicare coverage

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/06/health/leqembi-alzheimers-fda-approval-medicare/index.html

Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02214-3

Could vaccines prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease?

https://www.livescience.com/health/alzheimers-dementia/could-vaccines-prevent-and-treat-alzheimers-disease

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough: New Blood Biomarker Discovered

https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-new-blood-biomarker-discovered/

Silicon Valley Is Reviving the Dream of General-Purpose Humanoid Robots

https://singularityhub.com/2023/05/22/silicon-valley-is-reviving-the-dream-of-general-purpose-humanoid-robots/

DeepMind’s New Self-Improving Robot Is Quick to Adapt and Learn Fresh Skills

https://singularityhub.com/2023/06/25/deepminds-new-robot-uses-ai-to-learn-without-supervision/

In a First, an AI-Designed Drug Is Being Tested in Humans to See if It Actually Works

Hugely promising:

https://singularityhub.com/2023/06/28/a-drug-designed-entirely-by-ai-is-starting-its-first-human-trials/

Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4) with appendage repurposing for locomotion plasticity enhancement

Just a cool robot:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39018-y

Video: https://youtu.be/S4eQXXxUnNE

What Is Lab-Grown Meat, And Is It Safe To Eat?

I wouldn’t hesitate to try this:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-lab-grown-meat_l_6491aec4e4b027d92f95f396

Scientists Discover a New Potential Way To Stop Dementia Progression

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-a-new-potential-way-to-stop-dementia-progression/?expand_article=1

Solar-Powered Reactor Converts CO2 and Plastic Waste Into Sustainable Fuels

https://scitechdaily.com/solar-powered-reactor-converts-co2-and-plastic-waste-into-sustainable-fuels/

Triplex Origami: A Game-Changer in Gene Therapy and DNA Nanotechnology

https://scitechdaily.com/triplex-origami-a-game-changer-in-gene-therapy-and-dna-nanotechnology/?expand_article=1

Quantum computers could overtake classical ones within 2 years, IBM 'benchmark' experiment shows

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/quantum-computers-could-overtake-classical-ones-within-2-years-ibm-benchmark-experiment-shows

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/