In an interview at Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Neil Jacobstein shared some groundbreaking developments in artificial intelligence for healthcare.
Jacobstein is Singularity University’s faculty...
The miniaturization of electronics has been progressing steadily for decades, but IBM just took a major leap. The company has created what it's calling the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How the AI Cloud Could Produce the Richest Companies Ever
Peter Burrows | MIT Technology Review
“Amazon, Google, and Microsoft—and to a lesser extent companies...
In 47 CE, Scribonius Largus, court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius, described in his Compositiones a method for treating chronic migraines: place torpedo...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
China Wants to Shape the Global Future of Artificial Intelligence
Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
“China’s booming AI industry and massive government investment in...
In 2017, artificial intelligence attracted $12 billion of VC investment. We are only beginning to discover the usefulness of AI applications. Amazon recently unveiled...
Stem cell therapy is highly attractive in its intuitive simplicity: you clean out injured cells, plop down a gang of healthy replacements, sit back,...
Shanghai is a city full of life. With its population of 24 million, Shanghai embraces vibrant growth, fosters rising diversity, and attracts visionaries, innovators,...
COMPUTING
Google Thinks It's Close to 'Quantum Supremacy.' Here's What That Really Means.
Martin Giles and Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
“Seventy-two may not be a...
Exponential technologies (AI, VR, 3D printing, and networks) are radically reshaping traditional retail.
E-commerce giants (Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba) are digitizing the retail industry, riding the...
Everyone’s talking about deep fakes: audio-visual imitations of people, generated by increasingly powerful neural networks, that will soon be indistinguishable from the real thing....
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Inside the Alexa Prize
James Vlahos | Wired
“The fevered quest for conversational AI has pitted Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft in a battle...
In an article in Science published in 1912, Professor Giacomo Ciamician noted that “Coal… offers solar energy to humanity in its most concentrated form…...
COMPUTING
Serious Quantum Computers Are Finally Here. What Are We Going to Do With Them?
Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
"'The thing driving the hype is...
There’s an unsettling premise at the heart of Joe Brewer’s life’s work.
Brewer is a change strategist dedicated to ensuring a thriving global civilization exists...
In an interview at Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Shoshana Ungerleider spoke about the taboo topic we all eventually confront—death.
Ungerleider is an...
BIOTECH
In the Future We Won’t Edit Genomes—We’ll Just Print Out New Ones
Bryan Walsh | MIT Technology Review
“'Over the next 10 years synthetic biology is...
Upgrading our biology may sound like science fiction, but attempts to improve humanity actually date back thousands of years. Every day, we enhance ourselves...
The longevity field is bustling but still fragmented, and the “silver tsunami” is coming.
That is the takeaway of The Science of Longevity, the behemoth...
It’s been a long time coming. For years Waymo (formerly known as Google Chauffeur) has been diligently developing, driving, testing and refining its fleets...
