Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:16:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 The winners in the AI race will be the ones who spend the most, says Elevation’s Roger McNamee https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/the-winners-in-the-ai-race-will-be-the-ones-who-spend-the-most-says-elevations-roger-mcnamee https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/the-winners-in-the-ai-race-will-be-the-ones-who-spend-the-most-says-elevations-roger-mcnamee#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:16:09 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/the-winners-in-the-ai-race-will-be-the-ones-who-spend-the-most-says-elevations-roger-mcnamee

Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, joins ‘Money Movers’ to discuss tech’s bull run and the ongoing AI race.

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OpenAI and Microsoft are dueling over AGI. These real-world tests will prove when AI is really better than humans https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/openai-and-microsoft-are-dueling-over-agi-these-real-world-tests-will-prove-when-ai-is-really-better-than-humans https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/openai-and-microsoft-are-dueling-over-agi-these-real-world-tests-will-prove-when-ai-is-really-better-than-humans#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:15:46 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/openai-and-microsoft-are-dueling-over-agi-these-real-world-tests-will-prove-when-ai-is-really-better-than-humans

The most important AI partnership in the world partly revolves around whether OpenAI achieves AGI. I propose several practical tests.

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XAI plans to release Grok 4 on Wednesday (TSLA: NASDAQ) https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/xai-plans-to-release-grok-4-on-wednesday-tsla-nasdaq https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/xai-plans-to-release-grok-4-on-wednesday-tsla-nasdaq#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:15:32 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/xai-plans-to-release-grok-4-on-wednesday-tsla-nasdaq

Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, plans to release its latest model, Grok 4, on Wednesday, July 9.

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Brain chips get smarter. Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets competition https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/brain-chips-get-smarter-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-competition https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/brain-chips-get-smarter-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-competition#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:15:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/brain-chips-get-smarter-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-competition

Recent advances suggest the technology is hitting its stride. The UC Davis team’s speech synthesis system represents a fundamental shift from previous approaches. Rather than translating brain signals into text and then synthesizing speech — a process that created significant delays — UC Davis’ system converts thoughts directly into sounds with near-instantaneous 10-millisecond latency.

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Meanwhile, researchers at Carnegie Mellon achieved real-time control of individual robotic fingers using non-invasive EEG technology, wearing a cap that reads brain signals through the skull. This suggests that future brain interfaces might not require surgery at all for certain applications.

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A signal that never repeats—how the brain creates bookmarks to map time https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/a-signal-that-never-repeats-how-the-brain-creates-bookmarks-to-map-time https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/a-signal-that-never-repeats-how-the-brain-creates-bookmarks-to-map-time#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:13:30 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/a-signal-that-never-repeats-how-the-brain-creates-bookmarks-to-map-time

The brain doesn’t merely register time—it structures it, according to new research from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience published in Science.

The research team led by NTNU’s Nobel Laureates May-Britt and Edvard Moser, from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, is already known for their discovery of the brain’s sense of place.

Now they have shown that the brain also weaves a tapestry of time: The brain segments and organizes events into experiences, placing unique bookmarks on them so that our lives don’t become a blurry stream, but rather a series of meaningful moments and memories we can revisit and learn from.

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Japan builds glove that steers drones remotely with hand gestures https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/japan-builds-glove-that-steers-drones-remotely-with-hand-gestures https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/japan-builds-glove-that-steers-drones-remotely-with-hand-gestures#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:13:07 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/japan-builds-glove-that-steers-drones-remotely-with-hand-gestures

Tokyo researchers create 6-DoF hand-control system using gestures and motion tracking for precise drone operation in complex spaces.

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AI model analyzes speech to detect early neurological disorders with high accuracy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-model-analyzes-speech-to-detect-early-neurological-disorders-with-high-accuracy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-model-analyzes-speech-to-detect-early-neurological-disorders-with-high-accuracy#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:12:40 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-model-analyzes-speech-to-detect-early-neurological-disorders-with-high-accuracy

A research team led by Prof. Li Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel deep learning framework that significantly improves the accuracy and interpretability of detecting neurological disorders through speech. The findings were recently published in Neurocomputing.

“A slight change in the way we speak might be more than just a slip of the tongue—it could be a from the brain,” said Prof. Hai, who led the team. “Our new model can detect early symptoms of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Wilson disease, by analyzing voice recordings.”

Dysarthria is a common early symptom of various neurological disorders. Since speech abnormalities often reflect underlying neurodegenerative processes, voice signals have emerged as promising noninvasive biomarkers for the early screening and continuous monitoring of such conditions.

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3D Printing of Renaissance Prosthetic Hand Unlocks Technology of the Past https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/3d-printing-of-renaissance-prosthetic-hand-unlocks-technology-of-the-past https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/3d-printing-of-renaissance-prosthetic-hand-unlocks-technology-of-the-past#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:12:24 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/3d-printing-of-renaissance-prosthetic-hand-unlocks-technology-of-the-past

By Heidi Hausse & Peden Jones/The ConversationTo think about an artificial limb is to think about a person.

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AI That Thinks Like Us: New Model Predicts Human Decisions With Startling Accuracy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-that-thinks-like-us-new-model-predicts-human-decisions-with-startling-accuracy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-that-thinks-like-us-new-model-predicts-human-decisions-with-startling-accuracy#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:08:40 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-that-thinks-like-us-new-model-predicts-human-decisions-with-startling-accuracy

A new AI model mimics human thinking with striking accuracy, even in unfamiliar scenarios. Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have created an advanced artificial intelligence system capable of mimicking human decision-making with impressive precision. The model, named Centaur, was trained using data f

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AI Maps the Mood of Your City — And It’s Surprisingly Accurate https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-maps-the-mood-of-your-city-and-its-surprisingly-accurate https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-maps-the-mood-of-your-city-and-its-surprisingly-accurate#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:08:16 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/ai-maps-the-mood-of-your-city-and-its-surprisingly-accurate

What if a city’s mood could be mapped like weather? Researchers at the University of Missouri are using AI to do exactly that—by analyzing geotagged Instagram posts and pairing them with Google Street View images, they’re building emotional maps of urban spaces.

These “sentiment maps” reveal how people feel in specific locations, helping city planners design areas that not only function better but also feel better. With potential applications ranging from safety to disaster response, this human-centered tech could soon become part of the city’s real-time dashboard.

Human-Centric City Vision

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