Thursday, March 30, 2017

Acceleration Intelligence


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LATEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Global night-time lights provide unfiltered data on human activities and socio-economic factors
March 29, 2017

Night-time lights from space correlate to everything from electricity consumption and CO2 emissions, to gross domestic product, population and poverty. (credit: Image courtesy of NASA) Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have developed an online tool that incorporates 21 years of night-time lights data to understand and compare changes in human activities in countries around the world. The research is published in PLOS One. The tool compares the brightness … more…


Graphene-based neural probe detects brain activity at high resolution and signal quality
March 29, 2017

16 flexible graphene transistors (inset) integrated into a flexible neural probe enable electrical signals from neurons to be measured at high resolution and signal quality. (credit: ICN2) 
Potentially relevant to "neural lace" research
Researchers from the European Graphene Flagship* have developed a new microelectrode array neural probe based on graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) for recording brain activity at high resolution while maintaining excellent signal-to-noise ratio (quality). The new neural probe could lay the foundation for a future generation of in vivo neural recording implants, for patients with epilepsy, for … more…

NEW EVENTS

BICA-2017 BICA 2017

Dates: Aug 1 – 6, 2017
Location: Moscow, Russia

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NEW BOOKS

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory
author | Kariappa Bheemaiah

the-blockchain-alternative-cover Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, … more…


The Most Human Human: what artificial intelligence teaches us about being alive
author | Brian Christian

The-Most-Human-Human-Paperback-Front-Cover summary from publisher: Each year, the artificial intelligence community convenes to administer the famous — and famously controversial — Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange … more…

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Neuralink


Neuralink

NEWS
Musk startup Neuralink seeks to get brains to interface directly with computers
In a message fired off Tuesday on Twitter, Musk appeared to confirm he is creating a startup called Neuralink devoted to enabling brains to interface ...
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Neuralink
Neuralink is a US startup company developing implantable human-computer interfaces such as a neural lace. The company was founded in 2016 by ...
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The Elon Musk Post Series
Turns out the brain is obnoxiously not simple. But don't worry, there's a deadline. Long Neuralink piece coming out on @waitbutwhy in about a week.
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The latest information on Artificial Intelligence from the News, Publications, and Conferences – sponsored by AAAI, powered by AI technology.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Autonomous car

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NEWS
How Pedestrians Will Defeat Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars are already on the way; by some projections autonomous capability could even be standard by 2030. As drivers, cars will behave ...
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ARM enters driverless car race with latest design
ARM Holdings is joining the race to create technology to power driverless cars, widely regarded as the next major frontier for tech companies.
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Pennsylvania puzzles over how to regulate driverless car testing
Steve Mahan, who is blind, stands by the Waymo driverless car during a Google event, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco. The self-driving car ...
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Our utopian, dystopian future with self-driving cars
Self-driving is heralded as a way of improving traffic flows and decreasing road accidents. But what about the secondary effects of autonomous cars on ...
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Watch AutoX's Ultra-Cheap Autonomous Car System in Action
Autonomous cars seem like something reserved for high-end vehicles with advanced sensors, but one company is trying to pull them off using a bunch ...
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Autonomous vehicle suppliers face competition and consumer sentiment
Fully autonomous vehicles offer a host of benefits, from improved safety to lower fuel and insurance costs. While the mass rollout of the technology ...
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Will we be able to keep the driver of driverless vehicles awake at the virtual wheel?
Ready or not, here they come: driverless cars are set to merge into our collective lanes. What we once saw as a futuristic — and perhaps to many, ...
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Google's Waymo Poaches Ebay Exec to Negotiate Self-Driving Car Legislation
The bill appeared to prohibit their ability to operate an on-demand network of autonomous vehicles used by the public. That language was later ...
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Who will be the first to switch to autonomous cars?
Autonomous cars are coming. Some are already being tested on the road. Indeed, many auto manufacturers have publicly stated that they expect to ...