This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 10)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Inside DeepMind's Epic Mission to Solve Science's Trickiest Problem
Greg Williams | Wired UK
"For Hassabis, Suleyman and Legg, if the first nine years of...
The Age of Solar Energy Abundance Is Coming in Hot
Every five days, the sun provides the Earth with as much energy as all proven supplies of oil, coal, and natural gas. If humanity...
Three Invaluable Ways AI and Neuroscience Are Driving Each Other Forward
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis once pointed to the human brain as a paramount inspiration for building AI with human-like intelligence. He’s not the only one....
Watch China’s New Hybrid AI Chip Power an Autonomous Bike
When I lived in Beijing back in the 90s, a man walking his bike was nothing to look at. But today, I did a...
Three Invaluable Ways AI and Neuroscience Are Driving Each Other Forward
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis once pointed to the human brain as a paramount inspiration for building AI with human-like intelligence. He’s not the only one....
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
Why Companies and Armies Are Hiring Science Fiction Writers
Are you a science fiction writer? Do you have command of the French language? If you can answer yes to both questions, a new...
Where Death Ends and Cyborgs Begin, With Futurist Zoltan Istvan
Transhumanism is a growing movement but also one of the most controversial. Though there are many varying offshoots within the movement, the general core...
The Newest Way to Go Green? Retrofit Your Old Car to Make It Electric
Thanks to a rapid decline in lithium-ion battery prices and increases in their energy storage density, we’re headed into the age of the electric...
What If We Visualized Humanity’s Future in Millennia Instead of Centuries?
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” It’s a classic job interview question, designed to probe your level of ambition and aspiration. And...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 3)
NEUROSCIENCE
Facebook Is Funding Brain Experiments to Create a Device That Reads Your Mind
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"The research is important because it could...
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