Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots.”
This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists...
The Brain Predicts Reward Like an AI, Says New DeepMind Research
The idea of reinforcement learning—or learning based on reward—has been around for so long it’s easy to forget we don’t really know how it...
World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes
Renewable energy statistics just keep topping each other. Solar power is getting cheaper. Battery storage capacity is getting better. And wind farms are getting...
Precision Fermentation: What It Is, and How It Could Make Farming Obsolete
Concerns around the environmental impact of modern farming are causing us to reassess our relationship with food. But are claims that lab-grown food will...
If Machines Want to Make Art, Will Humans Understand It?
Assuming that the emergence of consciousness in artificial minds is possible, those minds will feel the urge to create art. But will we be...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 18)
BIOTECH
Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism
Matt Simon | Wired
"A xenobot is a one-of-a-kind organism: It’s both a living thing made of...
Mojo Vision’s Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Kick off a Race to AR on Your...
The digital world has been creeping closer to your face. Was a time when a laptop was about as personal as you got with...
The Future of Money: AI Investors, Crowdlending, and the Death of Cash
Every day, roughly 60 percent of all market trades are made by computer. When the market turns volatile, this can climb to as high...
Imagining the Smart Cities of 2050
Tomorrow’s cities are reshaping almost every industry imaginable, and birthing those we’ve never heard of.
Riding an explosion of sensors, megacity AI ‘brains', high-speed networks,...
How Google’s New Weather AI Will Make Sure You Never Get Caught in the...
Among the many things we’ve become addicted to on our smartphones is checking the weather. If you’re anything like me, you open a weather...
Scientists Discovered ‘Mini-Computers’ in Human Neurons—and That’s Great News for AI
With just their input cables, human neurons can perform difficult logic calculations previously only seen in entire neural networks. To restate: human neurons are...
IBM’s Plan to Design Solid-State Batteries Using Quantum Tech
Batteries are the key to decarbonizing both transport and the grid, but today’s technology is still a long way from living up to this...
The Weird, the Wacky, the Just Plain Cool: Best of CES 2020
As you know if you've ever been to, heard of, or read about the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, there's no shortage of...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 11)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Can an AI Be an Inventor? Not Yet.
Angela Chen | MIT Technology Review
" believes there will be more and more cases where AI...
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