This video comes with a fictional but quite plausible movie at the end. Yeah, it’s easy to see how AI could fuck us up big-time:
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.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Monday, August 28, 2023
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Simple Device Can Identify Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in Your Sleep
I'd like to get hold of one of these:
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
No AI Can Learn the Art of Medicine
“But let’s be clear—practicing medicine is an art, and no technology can take away that fact. When facing patients themselves, human interaction with a doctor is vital. Patient satisfaction and shared decision-making will continue to rely heavily on this humanism. Medicine is a profession that still requires compassion, reassurance, and most importantly, empathy. Even with the advent and ongoing evolution of AI and other large language models, empathy is best learned and communicated in the form of bedside teaching by humans—not AI or chatbots.”
I call horseshit on that. A.I. is already making huge inroads into all the arts, and in many cases doing it better than many professionals. And that’s NOW, when A.I. is just getting started. What do you want to bet A.I. won’t have a better bedside manner than any doctor within five years?
https://time.com/6306922/artificial-intelligence-medicine-doctors/
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
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Friday, August 18, 2023
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023
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Friday, August 11, 2023
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Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
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Sunday, July 23, 2023
Friday, July 21, 2023
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:
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Monday, July 17, 2023
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.”
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation
Well this does sound impressive:
Saturday, July 15, 2023
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Thursday, July 6, 2023
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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Friday, June 16, 2023
Monday, June 12, 2023
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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)”
Friday, June 2, 2023
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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.”
Friday, May 19, 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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/
Monday, May 15, 2023
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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/
Monday, May 1, 2023
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Saturday, April 29, 2023
AI vs MD: ChatGTP Outperforms Physicians in Providing High-Quality, Empathetic Healthcare Advice
AI has a consistently better bedside manner than human doctors:
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Nvidia & Unreal's HUGE AI Breakthroughs (Bigger Than ChatGPT)
Months of work with huge computers now done in seconds on an iPhone:
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Saturday, April 22, 2023
This Copper Drug Clears Alzheimer’s Brain Toxins and Boosts Memory
That sounds remarkably encouraging. “By improving the pumps, the brain can finally clear out the trapped waste. Over 56 days, the treatment ...
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“Our AI tools dramatically accelerated the discovery process, which uncovered five entirely new porous transition metal oxide structures tha...
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Terminator, here we come: https://www.techspot.com/news/102769-darpa-unleashes-20-foot-autonomous-robo-tank-glowing.html