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Jan 17, 2021

Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI

The “Luda” AI chatbot sparked a necessary debate about AI ethics as South Korea places new emphasis on the technology.

Jan 17, 2021

Telescopes on Far Side of the Moon Could Illuminate the Cosmic Dark Ages

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

The far side of the moon is poised to become our newest and best window on the hidden history of the cosmos. Over the course of the next decade, astronomers are planning to perform unprecedented observations of the early universe from that unique lunar perch using radio telescopes deployed on a new generation of orbiters and robotic rovers.

These instruments will study the universe’s initial half-billion years—the first few hundred million or so of which make up the so-called cosmic “dark ages,” when stars and galaxies had yet to form. Bereft of starlight, this era is invisible to optical observations. Radio telescopes, however, can tune in to long-wavelength, low-frequency radio emissions produced by the gigantic clouds of neutral hydrogen that then filled the universe. But these emissions are difficult, if not downright impossible, to detect from Earth because they are either blocked or distorted by our planet’s atmosphere or swamped by human-generated radio noise.

Scientists have dreamed for decades of such studies that could take place on the moon’s far side, where they would be shielded from earthly transmissions and untroubled by any significant atmosphere to impede cosmic views. Now, with multiple space agencies pursuing lunar missions, those dreams are set to become reality.

Jan 17, 2021

Scientists Make Pivotal Discovery in Quantum and Classical Information Processing

Posted by in categories: engineering, quantum physics

Scientists tame photon-magnon interaction. Working with theorists in the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have achieved a scientific control that is a first of its kind. They demonstrat.

Jan 17, 2021

‘This deserves our attention.’ New data highlight LGBTQ scientists’ workplace challenges

Posted by in category: futurism

Researchers hope large study spurs more support for LGBTQ scientists.

Jan 17, 2021

Branson’s Virgin rocket takes satellites to orbit

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Sir Richard Branson’s rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.

Jan 17, 2021

Is the Physical World a Neural Network?

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Part of the Divine Mind, and so we are.


The most recent observations at both quantum and cosmological scales are casting serious doubts on our current models. For instance, at quantum scale, the latest electronic hydrogen proton radius measurement resulted in a much smaller radius than the one predicted by the standard model of particles physics, which now is off by 4%. At cosmological scale, the amount of observations regarding black holes and galactic formation heading in the direction of a radically different cosmological model, is overwhelming. Black holes have shown being much older than their hosting galaxies, galactic formation is much younger than our models estimates, and there is evidence of at least 64 black holes aligned with respect to their axis of rotation, suggesting the presence of a large scale spatial coherence in angular momentum that is impossible to predict with our current models. Under such scenario, it should not fall as a surprise the absence of a better alternative to unify quantum theory and relativity, and thus connect the very small to the very big, than the idea that the universe is actually a neural network. And for this reason, a theory of everything would be based on it.


As explained in Targemann’s interview to Vanchurin on Futurism, the work of Vanchurin, proposes that we live in a huge neural network that governs everything around us.

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Jan 17, 2021

Scientists confirm quantum response to magnetism in cells

Posted by in categories: chemistry, quantum physics

University of Tokyo scientists observe predicted quantum biochemical effects on cells.

Jan 17, 2021

Laser Switching? Just Add DNA

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Team creates a microlaser whose wavelength can be switched by injecting single-stranded DNA into the cavity—and switched back with another, complementary DNA strand.

Jan 17, 2021

Accelerating AI computing to the speed of light

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already an integral part of our everyday lives online. For example, search engines such as Google use intelligent ranking algorithms, and video streaming services such as Netflix use machine learning to personalize movie recommendations.

As the demands for AI online continue to grow, so does the need to speed up AI performance and find ways to reduce its energy consumption.

Now a University of Washington-led team has come up with a system that could help: an core prototype that uses phase-change material. This system is fast, energy efficient and capable of accelerating the used in AI and . The technology is also scalable and directly applicable to cloud computing.

Jan 17, 2021

Virgin Orbit set to try and send satellites to space for the first time

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Virgin Orbit, a sister company of Richard Branson’s space tourism effort, is set to try to send its rocket into orbit for the first time ever on January 17th after failing to do so last year. It will also attempt to send satellites into space for the first time. The four-hour launch window opens at 1PM ET.