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AI Psychosis

Unknown is if they will remain uniquely human. Research in artificial intelligence is making spectacular progress; for manyresearchers, this progress is along the path to developing human-like general AI. This leads to a troubling thought: will a human-like AI inherit human-like disorders of thought?

Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns

Robots Are Trying To Pick Strawberries. So Far, They’re Not Very Good At It

Apple Now Has More Self-Driving Car Permits Than Tesla, Uber, and Waymo

How brain stimulation can boost memory if paired with learning

Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs

China tests driverless tanks that could be powered by AI

Understanding Deep Learning through Neuron Deletion

Deep neural networks are composed of many individual neurons, which combine in complex and counterintuitive ways to solve challenging tasks, ranging from machine translation to Go. This complexity grants neural networks their power but also earns them their reputation as confusing and opaque black boxes. Understanding how deep neural networks function is critical for explaining their decisions and enabling us to build more powerful systems.

Relativity Space reveals its ambitions with big NASA deal

Founded in late 2015, Relativity remained in stealth mode until last year, but now it is starting to come out of the shadows. And in doing so, the California-based company is revealing some pretty outsized ambitions. One day, in fact, the company intends to 3D print a rocket on Mars for a return trip to Earth.

Nanofibers Dramatically Improve Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration

The discovery that wounds in the fetus can heal without scarring has prompted scientists to work on designing new biomaterials based on the properties of the fetal skin as promising regenerative strategies.