This robotic combat vehicle willl be supporting troops and tanks in the future. đ
The Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle acts as an âintelligent wingmanâ to ground troops. Explore it here.
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Meet Assembloids, Mini Human Brains With Muscles Attached
The result was a bizarre, Lego-like human tissue that replicates the basic circuits behind how we decide to move. Without external prompting, when churned together like ice cream, the three ingredients physically linked up into a fully functional circuit. The 3D mini-brain, through the information highway formed by the artificial spinal cord, was able to make the lab-grown muscle twitch on demand.
In other words, if you think isolated mini-brainsâknown formally as brain organoidsâfloating in a jar is creepy, upgrade your nightmares. The next big thing in probing the brain is assembloidsâfree-floating brain circuitsâthat now combine brain tissue with an external output.
The end goal isnât to freak people out. Rather, itâs to recapitulate our nervous system, from input to output, inside the controlled environment of a Petri dish. An autonomous, living brain-spinal cord-muscle entity is an invaluable model for figuring out how our own brains direct the intricate muscle movements that allow us stay upright, walk, or type on a keyboard.
Neuralink reveals the âFitbit for your brainâ
Elon Muskâs Neuralink showcases working implanted brain computer and promises future health benefits.
Elon Musk company Neuralink has been researching how directly interfacing with the brain could be used as therapy for chronic and debilitating medical conditions, as well as exploring how technological augmentation could expand and develop the capabilities of the human brain.
Longevity. Technology: Neuralink have been decidedly cagey about their progress, despite having $158m, in funding, $100m of which comes from Musk himself [1]. Tonightâs live broadcast featured misbehaving pigs (Iâm looking at you here, Gertrude!) and a glimpse of the future of robotic surgery, but Elon Musk continued to operate at his self-proclaimed âspeed of thoughtâ pushing the boundaries between brains and technology.
Prior to todayâs update, the last real news was in July last year, when they announced they were developing a âsewing machine-likeâ device that could implant incredibly thin (4 to 6 ÎŒm) threads in the brain. The company also demonstrated a system that read information from a lab rat via 1500 electrodes and revealed they planned to start experiments with humans in 2020 [2].
Humans would be unable to control an artificial superintelligence
We are fascinated by machines that can control cars, compose symphonies, or defeat people at chess, Go, or Jeopardy! While more progress is being made all the time in artificial intelligence (AI), some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable superintelligent AI. Using theoretical calculations, an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, shows that it would not be possible to control a superintelligent AI. Their study is published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
Suppose in the not-too-distant future that a research team builds an AI system with intelligence superior to that of humans, so it can learn independently. Connected to the Internet, the AI would have access to all of humanityâs data. It could replace existing programs and take control of all machines globally.
Would this produce a utopia or a dystopia? Would the AI cure cancer, bring about world peace, and prevent a climate disaster? Or would it destroy humanity and take over the Earth?