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May 4, 2024
Using Artificial Intelligence To Think Outside The Box
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
Innovation often arises out of serendipitous relationships or discoveries. Can AI do that?
May 4, 2024
A sparse quantized hopfield network for online-continual memory
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
Brains and neuromorphic systems learn with local learning rules in online-continual learning scenarios. Designing neural networks that learn effectively under these conditions is challenging. The authors introduce a neural network that implements an effective, principled approach to local, online-continual learning on associative memory tasks.
May 4, 2024
What is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and why are people worried about it?
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: existential risks, robotics/AI
Machines that could think and learn like humans. A blessing for humanity, or an existential threat?
May 4, 2024
What are some applications of Neuromorphic Computing?
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
Definition Neuromorphic computing refers to an emerging field of technology that mimics the structure, dynamics, and efficiency of the human brain to build artificial neural networks and advanced computing systems. By reproducing the brain’s fundamental workings, neuromorphic computing aims to create more efficient and powerful hardware and software solutions for complex, real-time problems. This approach […].
May 4, 2024
SpaceX’s Groundbreaking Advancements in Space Technology
Posted by Chris Smedley in category: space travel
SpaceX is making significant advancements in their technology and preparations for future flights, including the potential game-changing horizontal tank setup and the bold move to catch the booster for Flight 5, marking a significant shift in the space launch industry Questions to inspire discussion What advancements i.
May 4, 2024
Mysterious space signals may come from a dead star with a planet
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space
Strange bursts of radio waves called FRBs have long been mysterious, and one of the most famous sources of these flashes may have an unexpected planet.
By Leah Crane
May 4, 2024
Can the known particles and interactions explain consciousness?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: neuroscience, particle physics
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
May 4, 2024
Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: engineering, military, sustainability
A solar geoengineering experiment in San Francisco could lead to brighter clouds that reflect sunlight. The risks are numerous.
By Corbin Hiar & E&E News
CLIMATEWIRE | The nation’s first outdoor test to limit global warming by increasing cloud cover launched Tuesday from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay.
May 4, 2024
The highest observatory on Earth sits atop Chile’s Andes Mountains — and it’s finally open
Posted by Robert Bosnjak in category: space
“The better astronomical observations of the real thing can be, the more accurately we can reproduce what we see with our experiments on Earth,” Riko Senoo, a graduate student at the University of Tokyo and a TAO researcher, said in the statement. “I hope the next generation of astronomers use TAO and other ground-based and space–based telescopes to make unexpected discoveries that challenge our current understanding and explain the unexplained,” added Masahiro Konishi, a research associate at the University of Tokyo.
Before the newly opened telescope was built, Yoshii and his colleagues also assembled and operated a 1-meter telescope on the mountaintop in 2009. Dubbed miniTAO, the tiny telescope imaged the center of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Two years later, miniTAO received the Guinness World Record for the highest astronomical observatory on Earth.