Mona, an AI manager and powered by Google’s Gemini, is running a coffee shop in Stockholm — from hiring staff, placing orders at suppliers to balancing the budget.
Category: robotics/AI
The Neuroscience Behind Adversarial Convergence and How It Can Influence AI Design
In a previous article, I traced Adversarial Convergence (AC) through 2,500 years of human intellectual history — from Sun Tzu’s unsentimental assessment of self and enemy, through Socrates’ elenchus, through Hegel’s dialectic, and to Kant’s critical method. The argument was that AC isn’t a novel prompt engineering technique. It’s a formalization of something human cognition has been doing naturally whenever it operates at points of tension and resolution.
This raises a deeper question: why does structured adversarial reasoning consistently produce more refined analysis and conclusions? What is it about human cognitive architecture that makes this particular structure the natural shape of rigorous truth-seeking? The answer appears to live, at least in part, in a small but remarkably important region of the brain.
Professor’s bold prediction: AI could help cure all diseases within a decade
I called it, and said it for decades in here. ASI will be lead in to LEV.
Also, expect people and corpos in medical industry to freak out, and suddenly turn Anti Ai, once realized we are now about 9 years, (2035), from day Disease is no longer a Cash Cow to center careers and industries around. its already started, Doctors tryin to say AI is harmful and cant be trusted.
Derya Unutmaz, professor of immunology, is blown away by AI’s potential to improve healthcare. Here he lays out how he envisions the technology transforming drug discovery and disease eradication.
Star Trek vs Star Wars: The Truth About Who Would REALLY Win
What happens when two of the greatest sci-fi universes collide? ⚔️
In this deep-dive, we break down the ultimate showdown: Star Trek vs Star Wars — and uncover the TRUTH about who would actually win.
This isn’t just fan debate. We’re analyzing technology, weapons, strategy, and realism to answer the question once and for all. From the advanced warp-driven fleets of the United Federation of Planets to the Force-wielding dominance of the Galactic Empire, every advantage and weakness is put under the microscope.
Could a Star Destroyer overpower the USS Enterprise?
Is the Force the ultimate trump card?
Or does superior engineering give Star Trek the edge?
This video dives into:
Starship combat and firepower ⚡
Shields vs deflectors 🛡️
Warp speed vs hyperspace 🚀
AI, tactics, and battle strategy 🧠
The real science behind both universes.
By the end, you’ll see which universe holds the TRUE advantage—and why the answer might surprise you.
Stacked intelligent surfaces could boost wireless reliability and security for 6G
Wireless communication is about to get stronger, clearer, and more secure, thanks to a new idea from UBC Okanagan researchers. Dr. Anas Chaaban and his team in the School of Engineering are exploring a method to improve the way stacked intelligent surfaces (SIS) can process electromagnetic waves more efficiently.
SIS is an emerging alternative to conventional wireless hardware, Dr. Chaaban says, as layers of specially engineered materials are used to directly manipulate electromagnetic waves.
“Electromagnetic waves travel through special surfaces that consist of several elements. These elements mimic neurons in a computerized neural network,” Dr. Chaaban says. “As the waves move through the surface, each element changes them slightly. When the waves come out, they are captured by antennas that send the signals to digital processors for further analysis.”
Technology has changed the way students study and learn
Now, as artificial intelligence enters the classroom, proponents argue it will be a welcome revolution for schools — but with limited guardrails, could it do more harm than good? Horizons moderator William Brangham explores the future of AI and education with Khan Academy founder Salman Khan, who has launched a new AI assistant for teachers.
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AI could help human scientists pick promising research topics
Large language models (LLMs) could help human scientists identify interesting research topics that have not previously been explored, say scientists at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). By analysing abstracts in materials science publications and mapping connections between different concepts, the model was able to generate predictions for future areas of interest that the KIT team says are more precise than those produced by traditional, rule-based algorithms.
The number of research articles published each year is increasing so quickly that it is impossible for scientists to keep up with everything, observes team leader Pascal Friederich, who heads a KIT research group on artificial intelligence for materials sciences. While experienced scientists know how to find connections between research areas within their field, identifying links between these and other, unfamiliar topics is a different story.
The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—probably better known to the world as the Oscars folks—have drawn a firm line in the sand against the use of generative AI, changing its eligibility rules to exclude AI-generated performances and scripts.
The new rules, via The Wrap, state that in acting categories, only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be considered eligible for consideration, while in the writing categories, only “human-authored” screenplays will be eligible.
Yann LeCun’s Billion Dollar Bet
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11:16 — But why so Blurry?
13:30 — Do our models need to be generative?
15:16 — Siamese Networks
17:53 — Representation Collapse
19:54 — Yann’s Epiphany & Barlow Twins
27:22 — DINO
28:58 — JEPA & World Models
34:09 — But is JEPA good?
36:19 — Welch Labs Book.
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