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Scenario prompts 9 July 2024
Today’s prompts are animal consciousness, neuromorphic architecture, mind-reading AI, Dune I and II, plants as a mining tool, killer bots, will.i.am, artificial blood, hyper-enabled soldiers, designer mice (for testing), and Ray Kurzweil’s new book.
The ‘smart’ animal club keeps getting bigger
https://www.popsci.com/environment/smartest-animals/
There is a realistic possibility of consciousness in other, less remarkable vertebrates, like reptiles, amphibians, and fish, and possibly even cephalopods and other animals without a backbone.
A new brain-inspired artificial dendritic neural circuit
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-brain-artificial-dendritic-neural-circuit.html
Researchers recently introduced a new neuromorphic computational architecture designed to replicate the organization of synapses (i.e., connections between neurons) and the tree-like structure of dendrites (i.e., projections extending from the body of neurons).
Mind-reading AI turns thoughts into pictures with unprecedented accuracy
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mindreading-ai-turns-brain-signals-into-pictures
This mind-reading technology development has the potential to pave the way for new treatments for vision loss.
How ‘Dune’ Became a Beacon for the Fledgling Environmental Movement—and a Rallying Cry for the New Science of Ecology
Dune, widely considered one of the best sci-fi novels of all time, continues to influence how writers, artists, and inventors envision the future.
Power from flower: Albanian farm plants suck EV battery metal from soil
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nickel-accumulating-plants-for-ev
A plant can accumulate up to 2 percent of its body weight in nickel.
A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/technology/ukraine-war-ai-weapons.html
The weaponisation of consumer technology.
will.i.am on why AI Could Be the Key to the Creative Revolution
https://www.lbbonline.com/news/william-on-why-ai-could-be-the-key-to-the-creative-revolution
Use AI to dream up new shit.
There will be blood
https://www.science.org/content/article/ultimate-blood-substitute-us-military-betting-46-million
Artificial blood.
AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream
https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-hyper-enabled-operator/
The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces.
World’s first mouse model with fully functional human immune system developed
https://interestingengineering.com/science/first-mouse-model-human-immune-system
This new approach may offer a viable alternative to the use of non-human primates in immunological and microbiological research.
We are now entering the steep part of the exponential
https://www.ronimmink.com/we-are-now-entering-the-steep-part-of-the-exponential/
I was looking forward to “The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI”. About how several key areas of change that are continuing to accelerate simultaneously.
