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Scenario prompts 1 Augustus 2024
Today’s prompts are robot suicide, interspecies chatbots, the biology of belief, AI start ups, autonomous farming, gorillas become hooked on smartphone videos, single cell data, embryo gene-editing, origami bots, block chaining car titles, smart, self-watering, self-fertilizing soils, brain implants, and my book about books about AI.
Programming biology with your mind?
Discussing the first robot suicide in history
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/discussing-first-robot-suicide-history-marco-van-hurne-rvwie/
Anthropomorphism?
How AI could help us talk to animals
https://www.vox.com/videos/364124/ai-talk-communicate-animals-machine-learning
Why AI researchers think we’re close to getting interspecies chatbots.
Your facial features gradually change to go with your name, researchers find
https://futurism.com/neoscope/facial-features-go-with-names
Yup. Your internal language determines your physiology. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/the-immune-mind/
VCs are still pouring billions into generative AI startups
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/vcs-are-still-pouring-billions-into-generative-ai-startups/
Part of data colonisation?
The Journey to the Fully Autonomous Farm
https://www.rtinsights.com/the-journey-to-the-fully-autonomous-farm/
As autonomous tractors are being introduced on the farm today, their deployment underscores how farmers are often at the forefront of adopting new technology.
Zoos concerned as gorillas become hooked on smartphone videos
https://futurism.com/the-byte/zoos-gorillas-smartphones
Visitors are urged not to show their smartphones to the animals, who are often so riveted that it begins to change their behavior as they seek out more and more screen time from the humans they encounter.
Researchers develop a tool for visualizing single-cell data
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-tool-visualizing-cell.html
Bioinformatica.
A controversial Chinese CRISPR scientist is still hopeful about embryo gene-editing. Here’s why.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/31/1095509/he-jiankui-hopeful-gene-editing/
For now, he’s planning to experiment only on mice, monkeys, and nonviable human embryos.
Feet-less ‘Transformer’ robots shape-shift into 1,000 forms with origami magic
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/origami-inspired-shape-shifting-transformer-bots
Using only three motors, researchers transformed cubes into 1,000+ configurations, including multistory buildings, bridges, and tunnels.
California’s DMV is using the blockchain to prevent fraud
https://qz.com/california-dmv-blockchain-car-title-fraud-ava-labs-web3-1851609271
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles is taking a new step to prevent fraud — simply uploading 42 million car titles to the blockchain.
A scientific leap towards smart, self-watering, self-fertilizing soils
Scientists have developed little beads called hydrogels that can capture water from the ambient air, and use it to irrigate soil—while simultaneously dosing the surrounding plants with nutrients.
Neuralink rival Synchron’s brain implant now lets people control Apple’s Vision Pro with their minds
It’s now possible for patients with limited physical mobility to control the device using only their thoughts.
A book about books about AI
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
So far, taking the perspective from 22 books/authors covering intelligence (there are many forms), work, synthetic biology, transhumanism, economics, spiritualism, digital transformation, data, etc. When you go through the books again, you start to wonder if we are asking the right questions. Pre-order to stay in the loop.
