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Jun 28, 2021

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed the world’s first use of AI & supercomputing in war!

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing, transportation

I doubt they were the first to use artificial intelligence in war. But it does discuss the AI technologies used in the recent conflict.

They used AI technology to identify targets for air strikes, specifically to counter the extensive tunnel network of their opponents.

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Jun 28, 2021

Mind reading helmet | Boston Dynamics | High Tech News

Posted by in categories: drones, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, security, space travel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDOt91JqqhM

Video from PRO ROBOTS. 😃

-robot avatars.

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Jun 28, 2021

The future starts with Industrial AI

Posted by in categories: business, education, robotics/AI

Generational shifts in the workforce are creating a loss of operational expertise. Veteran workers with years of institutional knowledge are retiring, replaced by younger employees fresh out of school, taught on technologies and concepts that don’t match the reality of many organizations’ workflows and systems. This dilemma is fueling the need for automated knowledge sharing and intelligence-rich applications that can close the skills gap.

Industrial organizations are accumulating massive volumes of data but deriving business value from only a small slice of it. Transient repositories like data lakes often become opaque and unstructured data swamps. Organizations are switching their focus from mass data accumulation to strategic industrial data management, homing in on data integration, mobility, and accessibility—with the goal of using AI-enabled technologies to unlock value hidden in these unoptimized and underutilized sets of industrial data. The rise of the digital executive (chief technology officer, chief data officer, and chief information officer) as a driver of industrial digital transformation has been a key influence on this trend.

Jun 28, 2021

Daily Crunch: SpaceX announces tentative plans to launch first orbital flight next month

Posted by in categories: finance, space travel

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Jun 28, 2021

See Ingenuity on the surface of Mars in NASA’s new 3D photo drop

Posted by in category: space

Well, that’s cool.

Jun 28, 2021

Meet Amazon’s robots

Posted by in categories: health, media & arts, robotics/AI

According to recent Occupational Safety and Health Administration data, workers at Amazon fulfillment centers were seriously injured about twice as often as employees in other warehouses. To improve workplace safety, Amazon has been increasing its investment in robotic helpers to reduce injuries among its employees. With access granted for the first time ever, “Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue visited the company’s secret technology facility near Seattle to observe some of the most advanced warehouse robots yet developed, and to experience how high-tech tools are being used to aid human workers.

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Jun 28, 2021

AI learns to predict human behavior from videos

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI, transportation

An outstanding idea, because for one there has been a video/ TV show/ movie, etc… showing every conceivable action a human can do; and secondly the AI could watch all of these at super high speeds.


Predicting what someone is about to do next based on their body language comes naturally to humans but not so for computers. When we meet another person, they might greet us with a hello, handshake, or even a fist bump. We may not know which gesture will be used, but we can read the situation and respond appropriately.

In a new study, Columbia Engineering researchers unveil a vision technique for giving a more intuitive sense for what will happen next by leveraging higher-level associations between people, animals, and objects.

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Jun 28, 2021

Harvard Scientists Pinpoint ‘Ground Zero’ of Aging in Mouse Embryo Study

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, life extension

In 2016, researchers at the Salk Institute showed that activating certain genes associated with embryonic development could “reprogram” the age of cells and boost the age of mice. Last year, they even managed to use the process to restore vision in old mice.

But the natural “reprogramming” described in the new Harvard study is unlikely to be exactly the same and may be far more comprehensive as it resets cellular age to ground zero, rather than simply reversing it by a few years.

Now that they know when this process happens, the researchers hope they can discover what the actual mechanism is, how similar it is to artificial cellular programming, and whether it can be induced in normal adult cells to rejuvenate them. That’s likely to be a long road, but could eventually lead to major breakthroughs in longevity science.

Jun 28, 2021

Video Game Voice Actors Alarmed

Posted by in categories: entertainment, information science, law, robotics/AI

Part of the problem mirrors the rise of automation in any other industry — performers told Input that they’re nervous that game studios might try to replace them with sophisticated algorithms in order to save a few bucks. But the game modder’s decision also raises questions about the agency that performers have over their own voices, as well as the artistry involved in bringing characters to life.

“If this is true, this is just heartbreaking,” video game voice actor Jay Britton tweeted about the mod. “Yes, AI might be able to replace things but should it? We literally get to decide. Replacing actors with AI is not only a legal minefield but an utterly soulless choice.”

“Why not remove all human creativity from games and use AI…” he added.

Jun 28, 2021

New study disputes the theory of aliens living in the clouds over Venus

Posted by in category: alien life

If microbes live in the Venusian skies, they must be able to survive with far less water than any known life found on Earth.


If there are microbes living in the Venusian skies, they have evolved to survive with far less water than any known life on Earth, a new study suggests.