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Scenario prompts 5 April 2024
The topics are spatial AI, necrotech, quantum computing, virtual reality, glow-in-the-dark plants, reclaiming your brain, mimicry, and automated bioacoustics.
Reclaim your brain!
Spatial AI is the Future of Human-Computer Interaction and the Metaverse
Spatial AI enables machines to perceive, reason, and act in our three-dimensional world
Chinese mourners turn to AI to remember and ‘revive’ loved ones
For as little as 20 yuan (£2.20), Chinese netizens can create a moving digital avatar of their loved on. Necrotech?
Quantum Computers Take a Major Step With Error Correction Breakthrough
Combine quantum computing with AI. QAI.
10 Years After Facebook Bought Oculus, What’s Next for Meta’s VR Plans?
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks about the past and future of VR, AR and AI.
Glow-in-the-dark petunias are just the beginning
https://www.fastcompany.com/91073850/glow-in-the-dark-petunias-are-just-the-beginning
After three decades of science, Light Bio figured out how to engineer a bioluminescent petunia. Next up: glowing roses, houseplants, and bouquets.
A newsletter about our uneasy relationship to phones becomes The Guardian’s fastest-growing email ever
Reclaim your brain.
The Origin of Mimicry
https://bzolang.blog/p/the-origin-of-mimicry?
Human engineering is fundamentally limited by our understanding.
Automated bioacoustics: Researchers are listening in on insects to better gauge environmental health
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-automated-bioacoustics-insects-gauge-environmental.html
Listening in on the insect world gives us a way to monitor how populations of insects are shifting, and so can tell us about the overall health of the environment
