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

Stanford Breakthrough Paves Way Next-Generation Lithium Metal Batteries That Charge Very Quickly

https://scitechdaily.com/stanford-breakthrough-paves-way-next-generation-lithium-metal-batteries-that-charge-very-quickly/

Easily Recyclable and Compostable – A New Plastic With Excellent Mechanical Stability

https://scitechdaily.com/easily-recyclable-and-compostable-a-new-plastic-with-excellent-mechanical-stability/

How a NASA nuclear rocket engine could unleash the solar system

https://mashable.com/article/nasa-nuclear-thermal-rocket-test

High Blood Pressure Medication Shown To Slow Aging and Extend Lifespan

Hmm, interesting…

https://scitechdaily.com/high-blood-pressure-medication-shown-to-slow-aging-and-extend-lifespan/

ChatGPT passes exams from law and business schools

ChatGPT has already passed the medical school exams, and now it’s passed the law school exams—only barely, but it’s a brand new technology. Give it a few more years and it will surpass the best humans:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/tech/chatgpt-passes-exams

Electric Vehicle Batteries Could Meet Grid-Scale Storage Needs by 2030

https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/23/electric-vehicle-batteries-could-meet-grid-scale-storage-needs-by-2030/

Affordable Cultured Meat Is a Step Closer With New Approval

https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/20/affordable-cultured-meat-is-a-step-closer-with-new-approval/

CRISPR’s Wild First Decade Only Scratches the Surface of Its Potential

https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/25/crisprs-wild-first-decade-only-scratches-the-surface-of-its-potential/

Alleviating Symptoms: Brain Stimulation Could Help Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/alleviating-symptoms-brain-stimulation-could-help-treat-alzheimers-disease/

Experiment Proves Bacteria Really Eat Plastic – Broken Down Into Harmless Substances

https://scitechdaily.com/experiment-proves-bacteria-really-eat-plastic-broken-down-into-harmless-substances/

18 Times More Power: MIT Researchers Have Developed Ultrathin Lightweight Solar Cells

Wow!

“They are one-hundredth the weight of conventional solar panels, generate 18 times more power-per-kilogram, and are made from semiconducting inks using printing processes that can be scaled in the future to large-area manufacturing.”

https://scitechdaily.com/18-times-more-power-mit-researchers-have-developed-ultrathin-lightweight-solar-cells/

Research Shows Gut Bacteria Affect Brain Health – Reveals New Approach to Treating Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/research-shows-gut-bacteria-affect-brain-health-reveals-new-approach-to-treating-alzheimers-disease/

300% More Capacity: New Battery Technology Could Significantly Lower Energy Storage Costs

https://scitechdaily.com/300-more-capacity-new-battery-technology-could-significantly-lower-energy-storage-costs/

Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Learning How to Reverse Aging

VERY interesting:

“We’re not making stem cells, but turning back the clock so they can regain their identity,” says Sinclair. “I’ve been really surprised by how universally it works. We haven’t found a cell type yet that we can’t age forward and backward.”

“But in some cases the existing cells are just not functioning, so if you reboot them, they are fine. It’s a new way to think about medicine.”

That could mean that a host of diseases—including chronic conditions such as heart disease and even neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s—could be treated in large part by reversing the aging process that leads to them.”

https://time.com/6246864/reverse-aging-scientists-discover-milestone/

Space-Based Solar Power Hardware Was Just Launched Into Orbit for Testing

Great potential, though vulnerable:

https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/06/hardware-to-test-space-based-solar-power-was-just-launched-into-orbit/

GPT-3’s Next Mark: Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Through Speech

https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/10/gpt-3s-next-mark-diagnosing-alzheimers-through-speech/

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough: New Therapeutic Target Found

https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-new-therapeutic-target-found/

New Study Uncovers Potential Target for Stopping 90% of Cancer Deaths

https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-uncovers-potential-target-for-stopping-90-of-cancer-deaths/

New Technology Creates Carbon-Neutral Chemicals Out of Thin Air

https://scitechdaily.com/new-technology-creates-carbon-neutral-chemicals-out-of-thin-air/

A New Approach to Halting the Effects of Aging: Boosting Immune Cells Improves Brain Waste Clearance

https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-approach-to-halting-the-effects-of-aging-boosting-immune-cells-improves-brain-waste-clearance/

Revolutionary Cancer Vaccine Simultaneously Kills and Prevents Brain Tumors

https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionary-cancer-vaccine-simultaneously-kills-and-prevents-brain-tumors/

The Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: The World Has Changed Fast—What Might Be Next?

This is pretty breathtaking:

https://singularityhub.com/2022/12/29/the-brief-history-of-artificial-intelligence-the-world-has-changed-fast-what-might-be-next/

Breakthrough Test for Alzheimer’s: New Biomarker Can Detect Neurodegeneration in Blood

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-test-for-alzheimers-new-biomarker-can-detect-neurodegeneration-in-blood/

Alzheimer’s Mystery Solved: “Angry” Immune Cells in Brain and Spinal Fluid Identified As Culprit

Another encouraging angle to test:

https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-mystery-solved-angry-immune-cells-in-brain-and-spinal-fluid-identified-as-culprit/

Breakthrough! Receptor “Decoy” Drug Neutralizes COVID-19 Virus Including Omicron and Other Variants

Nice!

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-receptor-decoy-drug-neutralizes-covid-19-virus-including-omicron-and-other-variants/

Nanotech Scientists Created Something Unexpected: Tiny Metallic Snowflakes

https://scitechdaily.com/nanotech-scientists-created-something-unexpected-tiny-metallic-snowflakes/

New Research: This Activity Can Reduce the Risk of Metastatic Cancer by 72%

“We assume that this happens because the organs must compete for sugar resources with the muscles, known to burn large quantities of glucose during physical exercise. Consequently, if cancer develops, the fierce competition over glucose reduces the availability of energy that is critical to metastasis. Moreover, when a person exercises regularly, this condition becomes permanent: the tissues of internal organs change and become similar to muscle tissue. We all know that sports and physical exercise are good for our health. Our study, examining the internal organs, discovered that exercise changes the whole body so that the cancer cannot spread, and the primary tumor also shrinks in size.”

https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-this-activity-can-reduce-the-risk-of-metastatic-cancer-by-72/

Another $3.5 billion notch in America's widening "battery belt"

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/14/redwood-materials-south-carolina

One Million Times Faster Than Current Technology: New Optical Computing Approach Offers Ultrafast Processing

https://scitechdaily.com/one-million-times-faster-than-current-technology-new-optical-computing-approach-offers-ultrafast-processing/

U.S. Government Scientists Confirm Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Energy

This is an extremely important milestone, even if commercial fusion reactors are still decades away:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough_n_63989b16e4b019c69625fa4d

New Blood Test Can Detect “Toxic” Protein Years Before Alzheimer’s Disease Symptoms Emerge

https://scitechdaily.com/new-blood-test-can-detect-toxic-protein-years-before-alzheimers-disease-symptoms-emerge/

New AI chatbot is scary good

A.I. is coming to fruition…but when will it become sapient? Or will that be unnecessary and unknowable?

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/05/chatgpt-scary-good-ai-chatbot

Cancer Weakness Discovered: New Method Pushes Cancer Cells Into Remission

https://scitechdaily.com/cancer-weakness-discovered-new-method-pushes-cancer-cells-into-remission/

Wormhole simulated in quantum computer could bolster theory that the universe is a hologram

One of the weirdest things about quantum physics:

https://www.livescience.com/physicists-create-holographic-wormhole

Alzheimer's drug lecanemab hailed as momentous breakthrough

Well, not exactly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63749586

Cambridge Scientists Detect Signs of Dementia Nine Years Ahead of Diagnosis

https://scitechdaily.com/cambridge-scientists-detect-signs-of-dementia-nine-years-ahead-of-diagnosis/

This AI Supercomputer Has 13.5 Million Cores—and Was Built in Just Three Days

https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/22/this-ai-supercomputer-has-13-5-million-cores-and-was-built-in-just-three-days/

Diabetes Drug Linked to a Decreased Risk of Dementia

https://scitechdaily.com/diabetes-drug-linked-to-a-decreased-risk-of-dementia/

Unlocking the Mysteries of a Protein Linked to Alzheimer’s – Scientists Identify a Potential Treatment

https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-a-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-scientists-identify-a-potential-treatment/

Lab-grown meat is OK for human consumption, FDA says

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/health/fda-lab-meat-cells-scn-wellness/index.html

Biofuel Research: Full Decarbonization of U.S. Aviation Sector Is Within Grasp

https://scitechdaily.com/biofuel-research-full-decarbonization-of-u-s-aviation-sector-is-within-grasp/

A New Brain Model Could Pave the Way for Conscious AI

https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-brain-model-could-pave-the-way-for-conscious-ai/

ESA SOLARIS: Wireless Power Beamed Down From Space

https://scitechdaily.com/esa-solaris-wireless-power-beamed-down-from-space/

These Sleek Houses Are 3D Printed From Recycled Plastic. Prices Start at $26,900

https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/04/these-sleek-houses-are-3d-printed-from-recycled-plastic-prices-start-at-26900/

Scientists Build the First Crucial Components of a Molecular Computer

https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/07/scientists-build-synthetic-molecular-machines-that-can-read-data/

Carbon Nano-Onions are About to be a Big Deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGo68YtnKsw&feature=youtu.be

Carbon Nanotubes Could Revolutionize Everything From Batteries and Water Purifiers to Auto Parts and Sporting Goods

https://scitechdaily.com/carbon-nanotubes-could-revolutionize-everything-from-batteries-and-water-purifiers-to-auto-parts-and-sporting-goods/

“Unexpected” – Scientists Discover an Anti-Aging Mechanism

“It is possible that aging may be slowed down or cured simply by transferring telomeres.”

https://scitechdaily.com/unexpected-scientists-discover-an-anti-aging-mechanism/

What causes Alzheimer's? Study puts leading theory to 'ultimate test'

“"My prediction is it will work, and it will work fantastically," he says. "If we can really prevent the plaques from starting and taking off and those downstream changes from going, my prediction is those people will never get Alzheimer's."”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/11/01/1133107703/alzheimers-study-tests-amyloid-hypothesis

AI Helped Design a Clear Window Coating That Can Cool Buildings Without Using Energy

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-helped-design-a-clear-window-coating-that-can-cool-buildings-without-using-energy/

Beaming Clean Energy From Space – Caltech’s “Extraordinary and Unprecedented Project”

https://scitechdaily.com/beaming-clean-energy-from-space-caltechs-extraordinary-and-unprecedented-project/

The First Plant-Based Steak in the US Hit Stores This Week

https://singularityhub.com/2022/10/27/the-first-plant-based-steak-in-the-us-just-hit-stores-this-week/

Why Are Women More Susceptible to Alzheimer’s? Scientists May Finally Have an Answer

https://scitechdaily.com/why-are-women-more-susceptible-to-alzheimers-scientists-may-finally-have-an-answer/

Accelerating Plant Growth With Film That Converts UV Light to Red Light

https://scitechdaily.com/accelerating-plant-growth-with-film-that-converts-uv-light-to-red-light/

Derivative of “Love Hormone” Oxytocin Reverses Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/derivative-of-love-hormone-oxytocin-reverses-cognitive-impairment-in-alzheimers-disease/