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Dec 2, 2017

Google’s Artificial Intelligence Built an AI That Outperforms Any Made

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jNRJkNjSljA

Google’s AutoML project, designed to make AI build other AIs, has now developed a computer vision system that vastly outperforms state-of-the-art-models. The project could improve how autonomous vehicles and next-generation AI robots “see.”

In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s capable of generating its own AIs. More recently, they decided to present AutoML with its biggest challenge to date, and the AI that can build AI created a “child” that outperformed all of its human-made counterparts.

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Dec 2, 2017

Biohackers brush off FDA warning on DIY gene therapy

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The agency seeks a crackdown on companies offering kits to produce gene therapies for self-administration.

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Dec 2, 2017

Aging Expert: The First Person to Live to 1,000 Has Already Been Born

Posted by in categories: biological, climatology, life extension, sustainability

SENS Research Foundation co-founder Aubrey de Grey believes in a world in which we no longer age. At a London event, he explained that he believes the first person who will live to be 1,000 has already been born, and we’ll solve this “aging problem” within 20 years.

Aging has plagued biological organisms since life first began on planet Earth and it’s an accepted and universally understood part of life. Sure, things like climate change pose significant threats to society, but aging will almost certainly still exist even if we ever manage to stop damaging our environment.

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Dec 2, 2017

Undoing Aging with Molecular and Cellular Damage Repair

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, life extension

Dr. Aubrey de Grey Summarizes Rejuvenation Research at the MIT Technology Review. To learn more about the work of Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the SENS Foundation visit http://www.sens.org/


Since the dawn of medicine, aging has been doctors’ foremost challenge. Three unsuccessful approaches to conquering it have failed: treating components of age-related ill health as curable diseases, extrapolating from differences between species in the rate of aging, and emulating the life extension that famine elicits in short-lived species. SENS Research Foundation is spearheading the fourth age of anti-aging research: the repair of age-related damage, that is, rejuvenation biotechnology.

The Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) approach was first proposed in 2002. “Senescence,” here, refers to the actuarial phenomenon—the trend that individuals within a population suffer from an increasing morbidity and mortality rate in (typically exponential) relation to their chronological age. “Negligible” is used in a statistical sense: we consider a level of senescence negligible if no age-related contribution to mortality is statistically demonstrable within a population, given the “background noise” of age-independent mortality (such as unfortunate encounters with motor vehicles). Finally, by “Engineered,” we indicate that this state is achieved by the deliberate application of biomedical therapies, and is not the normal situation. The goal of SENSE is thus unambiguously defined; we seek methods to convert a population experiencing a non-negligible level of senescence into one experiencing a negligible level.

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Dec 2, 2017

Alibaba launches US$1.5 billion fund to help fight poverty in China

Posted by in category: futurism

At a conference attended by the company’s 36 partners at its headquarters in Hangzhou, executive chairman Jack Ma announced it would set up the Alibaba Poverty Relief Fund, with the money to be donated over the next five years.


Jack Ma says commitment to poverty relief was inspired by Deng Xiaoping.

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Dec 1, 2017

Could intelligent machines of the future own the rights to their own creations?

Posted by in category: futurism

There are some strong arguments for giving machines the rights to their creations.

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Dec 1, 2017

Can We Restore Thymus Function to Cheat Death?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Researchers announce successful preliminary results of a clinical trial to restore thymus function, which could boost aging immune systems.

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Dec 1, 2017

Can These New Advancements in Cryonics Revive Our Bodies After Freezing?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, life extension, Ray Kurzweil

Summary: Cryonics has long been a non-starter due to technical limitations. A week-old radical proposal by a Russian cryonics firm to freeze people before death, combined with technological advances in Cryopreservation: Also called cryobanking. The process of cooling and storing cells, tissues, or organs at very low or freezing temperatures to save them for future use. Used in cryonics and the storage of reproductive cells in fertility treatments. [Source – NCI].” class=” glossaryLink “cryopreservation are shaking up the cryonics industry. When will cryonics be ready for prime time? [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on LongevityFacts.com. Follow us on Reddit | Google+ | Facebook. ]

Google’s most famous technologist, Ray Kurzweil, has signed up for cryonics, saying:

“My primary strategy for living through the 21st century and beyond is not to die”

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Dec 1, 2017

You Wont Believe What These Transhumanists Are Doing

Posted by in category: transhumanism

You won’t believe the things that these transhumanists are doing to prepare for merging with machines, from mind uploading to cybernetics.

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Dec 1, 2017

Scientists have created a silicon beating heart

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical

The soft artificial heart was created from silicone using a 3D-printing, lost-wax casting technique; it weighs 390 grams and has a volume of 679 cm3. “It is a silicone monoblock with complex inner structure,” explains Cohrs. This artificial heart has a right and a left ventricle, just like a real human heart, though they are not separated by a septum but by an additional chamber. This chamber is in- and deflated by pressurized air and is required to pump fluid from the blood chambers, thus replacing the muscle contraction of the human heart.

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