Turtles are not inside their shells. They are their shell. "Ghost in the shell" is a dumb notion.
Turtles are not inside their shells. They are their shell. "Ghost in the shell" is a dumb notion.
Is Modern Media Destroying Our Memories?
It seems as though the more we embrace external technologies, the more our memory faculties deteriorate. But the truth might just be scarier.
How this AI-powered auto-completer is helping developers write 25% less code
The Israel-based startup was found in 2015 by Dror Weiss and Eran Yahav. Codota’s free-to-use autocomplete plug-in supports major languages such as Java, Python, Javascript, PHP, and Rust across major IDEs such as Eclipse and Android Studio. Yahav told me that Codota differs from other code completion AIs as it’s able to predict the next token completion by leaning on an AI-based code ‘dictionary.’
Design Methods: Or how to augment group creativity.
Douglas Engelbart's vision of "Augmenting the Human Intellect" is ultimately egotistical and short-sighted. Consider "Augmenting the Human Capacity for Love - Compassion, Simplicity and Humility".
Stanford researchers propose AI in-home system that can monitor for coronavirus symptoms
During the “COVID-19 and AI” livestream event run by the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI (HAI), Stanford professor and HAI codirector Dr. Fei-Fei Li presented a concept for an AI-powered in-home system that could track a resident’s health, including for signs of COVID-19, while ensuring privacy.
#Comment: A highly intrusive "AI" in your living room, constantly analysing your bio-signals and sending it to its shadowy corporate owners. What could possibility go wrong? But don't worry and smile - cause comments like this will soon be banned by A.I, so we can feel better:
Microsoft claims its AI framework spots fake news better than state-of-the-art baselines
In a study Microsoft propose an AI framework — Multiple sources of Weak Social Supervision (MWSS) — that leverages engagement and social media signals to detect fake news. They say that after training and testing the model on a real-world data set, it outperforms a number of state-of-the-art baselines for early fake news detection.
Google Is Publishing Location Data From 131 Countries To Show How Coronavirus Lockdowns Are Working (Buzzfeed) - COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports (Google)
These Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential. The Reports were developed to be helpful while adhering to our stringent privacy protocols and protecting people’s privacy.
Related: Moscow To Launch Mandatory Surveillance App To Track Residents In Corona Lockdown
Related: S Korea unleashes all-out policy assault on virus - ‘Big Brother’ on steroids.
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Intel is using A.I. to build smell-o-vision chips (Intel, 2020)
With machine learning, Loihi can recognize hazardous chemicals “in the presence of significant noise and occlusion,” Intel said, suggesting the chip can be used in the real world where smells — such as perfumes, food, and other odors — are often found in the same area as a harmful chemical. Machine learning trained Loihi to learn and identify each hazardous odor with just a single sample, and learning a new smell didn’t disrupt previously learned scents. Intel claims Loihi can learn 10 different odors right now.
How smell, emotion, and memory are intertwined, and exploited (Harvard, 2020)
Researchers explore how certain scents often elicit specific emotions and memories in people, and how marking companies are manipulating the link for branding.
The Application of Cognitive Science in Military Science - A Narrative Review - by Khodabakhsh Ahmadi, Nasirudin Javidi (Journal of Military Medicine January 2020)
Abstract: The current review aims to explore the applications of cognitive science in military science to answer the question of what cognitive science is currently used in the military. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary and scientific study of the mind and its processes that examines the structure, process, and cognitive functioning of the mind. The main subcategories of cognitive science are cognitive modeling, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive linguistics, philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.
The applications of cognitive science in the military field are examined at two levels: first, at the level of human resources, and second, at the level of military equipment. At the level of human resources, increasing the energy efficiency of the soldiers' bodies and increasing the hours of continuous activity, increasing the speed of repairing war injuries, increased wakefulness, reduced fear and pain sensation in the nervous system, control of mind and behavior, night vision technology, the full integration of technology with the nervous system, the bolt project (eliminating the limitations Language differences), developing DNA diagnosis system, humanoid robots, hunter robots, transfer robots, Peteman Human Beatles, Nanobut Robots, Body Refactoring Project and Artificial Eye Project.
The use of cognitive sciences in the field of military equipment includes: cognitive weapons, auxiliary skeleton, health trackers, cyber-insects, Exacto project, Heldes project, Earth project, Alpha-Doug project, one-Shot project, Z-Man project, Vulture project Stratospheric airship, UFP project and bird robot in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).Cognitive science plays a crucial role in the development of military science and technology, both in the field of manpower and in the field ofmilitary equipment. Therefore, more research is needed on how to expand this science. We hope to see more growth and prosperity in the Armed Forces.
Upgraded Google Glass Helps Autistic Kids “See” Emotions (Spectrum IEEE)
A team at Stanford has been working for six years on this assistive technology for children with autism, which the kids themselves named Superpower Glass. The system provides behavioral therapy to the children in their homes, where social skills are first learned. It uses the glasses’ outward-facing camera to record the children’s interactions with family members; then the software detects the faces in those videos and interprets their expressions of emotion. Through an app, caregivers can review auto-curated videos of social interactions.
Tiny Qoobo - The headless robot cat
We're Living in 12 Monkeys - Documentary by Truthstream Media
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The AI system on the Tianhe-1 computer can go through hundreds of images generated by computed tomography (CT) and gave a diagnosis in about 10 seconds, according to the National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin, which hosts the machine. The accuracy of the analysis was higher than 80 per cent “and increasing steadily every day”. China has offered free use of the machine around the world, but US Centres for Disease Control says it does not recommend using scans to diagnose Covid-19.
Spinal cord injury patients can imagine resuming many activities because of new technologies (washingtonpost)
At age 16, German Aldana snaped his spine just below his neck. For the next five years, he could move only his neck, and his arms a little. Researchers with the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis carefully opened Aldana's skull and, at the surface of the brain, implanted electrodes. Then, in the lab, they trained a computer to interpret the pattern of signals from those electrodes as he imagines opening and closing his hand. The computer then transfers the signal to a prosthetic on Aldana's forearm, which then stimulates the appropriate muscles to cause his hand to close. The entire process takes 400 milliseconds from thought to grasp.
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Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth: Thought-controlled music!
Chinese government rolls out coronavirus ‘close contact detector’ app (BBC)
The “close contact detector” notifies users if they have had exchanges with any individuals who have been confirmed or suspected of carrying the virus. All users need to do is scan a QR code with an app like Alipay or WeChat. People at risk are then advised to stay at home or inform local health authorities.
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Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn’s Inferno is a participatory performance in which performers wear robotic harnesses that control their arms in time with synchronised music and light.
I Tried Listening to Podcasts at 3x and Broke My Brain - by Steve Rousseau (medium)
At 2x, the experience of listening to audio began to change: Though I could understand the words, they seemed to have less emotional resonance. At these high speeds, my brain seemed to shift away from assessing people's feelings towards baseline comprehension. At the end of each sentence, I'd feel a little twinge of joy, not because of anything happening in the podcast, but just because I had understood the words.