Geoffrey Hinton, pioneer of the back-propagation method of training computers, “says his breakthrough method should be dispensed with, and a new path to AI found.” | learn more
You may recall Elon Musk’s new venture to create a BMI that’s directly connected to your brain. The team at CNTRL-Labs thinks that’s a bit more than the market will bare, so instead they’ve figured out how to read your […]
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy just took a job as Director of AI at Tesla. He made this great presentation analyzing the state of and prospects for AGI. | learn more
A team from Stanford has made progress on a system they call radiative sky cooling. Originally created in 2013, their latest real-world test … “found that throughout the summer the panels cut the power needed to cool the building by more […]
Two things scientists are trying: 1) suck up carbon dioxide from the air, and 2) dim sunlight by releasing special material from high altitude balloons. | learn more
A study published in Nature Energy quantifies the climate and air quality benefits of wind and solar energy. It’s important to be skeptical of these calculations, but also worth reading the argument. | learn more
The WSJ explores the poor and less-literate users that will make up the next consumers of the internet. The safe prediction is that they’ll be using video and voice to interact with devices, rather than reading and typing. Note: the WSJ […]
“Finnish researchers have created a batch of single-cell protein that is nutritious enough to serve for dinner using a system powered by renewable energy. The entire process requires only electricity, water, carbon dioxide, and microbes.” | learn more
Yes, we already have self-flying drones, but what to do about the legacy equipment that’ll be in service for decades? A DARPA program has created a system that can do the job of a real pilot, with video inputs of […]
Researchers at the University of Washington have applied neural networks to create lip-synced video from an audio clip. They faked a video of Obama that’s eerily realistic. The long-term implications are pretty eye-opening. | learn more