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AI Is The New Secret Weapon In The Quest For Better Batteries
Compared to all the electronics that power the tiny computer in your pocket; battery technology is downright disappointing. Not only does your smartphone need charging every day, but in a few years, its battery will be barely able to hold a charge at all. So how long will your device last? Researchers at Standford University…
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Self-Driving Cars Can’t Choose Who To Kill Yet, But People Already Have A Lot Of Opinions
That people would generally prefer to minimise casualties in a hypothetical autonomous car crash has been found to be true in past research, but what happens when people are presented with more complex scenarios? And what happens when autonomous vehicles must choose between two scenarios in which at least one individual could die? Who might…
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MIT’s New AI-Powered Software Can Extract Individual Instruments From Videos With A Single Click
An instructor of mine once compared mixing a song to baking a cake. The various tracks are the ingredients, and once everything is mixed and baked, as with a cake, those ingredients can’t be deconstructed. Or can they? AI researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have created an app that can isolate…
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MIT Backs Away From Startup That Aims To Preserve Your Brain And Memories After You Die
3D representation of a brain slice following ASC preservation. A prominent research lab at MIT has terminated its relationship with Nectome, a new startup with the stated mission of preserving human brains such that they can be digitised and uploaded into a computer in the future, effectively bringing the dead back to life. But while…