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Corresponding author of the paper Dr Ana Angelova Volponi, King’s College London, said: “As the field progresses, the integration of such innovative techniques holds the potential to revolutionise dental care, offering sustainable and effective solutions for tooth repair and regeneration.
Growing a tooth is one thing, I wonder how hard integrating it into a mouth will be. These teeth need to integrate with nerves and blood vessels.
Researchers in England have fully grown an adult tooth in the lab, and are investigating ways these teeth could be used in dentistry.
They mention people will own them outright after 6 years. So it's free electricity from that point onwards.
This is an innovative model. They are working with people on low incomes, renters and apartment dwellers. All people cut out of traditional rooftop solar. People will be paying $35 a month for two free-standing 7 by 4 feet panels. There doesn't seem to be any upfront cost, though a qualified electrician needs to install them.
If those two panels generate more than $35 worth of electricity a month, then this seems like a no brainer.
Bright Saver, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, aims to bring the European balcony solar trend to U.S. homes with low-cost, plug-in systems that require no interconnection and no permits in some places
Yes.
There are probably quite a few inflection points coming, and that is one of them.
I think another is when they are capable of most unskilled work (supermarket shelf stacking, cleaning, etc), but cost less to employ than humans paid Western-country minimum wages.
Humanoid robots, like all technologies, will be adopted on an s-curve. First, there will be just a few of them, and then rapidly they will be everywhere, as their adoption heads for market saturation.
Are humanoid robots ready for their s-curve take off phase? Seeing Xpeng's IRON humanoid in action might make you think they are. Xpeng say they expect to start mass-producing these next year, and say they are investing $13.8 billion to scale production.
IRON's specs look impressive. Xpeng says it operates at 3,000 TOPS of processing power with their Turing AI chip. For reference, Microsoft's baseline for an AI PC is 40 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second).
Xpeng's IRON robot demo at the Shanghai Motor Show highlights how fast robotics is advancing. Are humanoids ready for s-curve mass adoption?
The world is full of economic alliances with acronyms. The EU, ASEAN, and the G7 are just some. The EU functions more as a nation-state, while most are much looser. The BRICS alliance, founded in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, and China (hence the name) has significant differences from the others.
Its primary goal is to create an alternative to the existing global economic order dominated by the West/US. In particular, it seeks to create alternatives to the dollar-dominated world trade system, SWIFT interbank payment system, and IMF & World Bank.
So far, it hasn't made huge progress with this agenda. The US dollar's role in global trade is firmly embedded. The only other currency that comes close in volume/importance is the Euro. As China doesn't allow its currency to float freely or have open capital markets, the Chinese Renminbi can't currently replace the dollar's international role.
But is this about to change? The current US administration rejects much of the old global economic order. Ironic, considering it originally created it. Since 2009 China and Russia have even more reasons to want a global financial alternative the US doesn't have a role in. Maybe the US is helping them to create it?
As the US retreats from the post-WW2 global order it created, 22 countries are lining up to join the BRICS alliance, which seeks a new global order.
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming: Agents could make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale. We need to be ready.
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?
Alien life on exoplanets is in the news after possible biosignatures were found on K2-18b, 124 light-years away. The gas dimethyl disulfide hints at life, but it's not proof.
A new coronagraph design could boost the search for alien microbes by improving exoplanet atmosphere analysis. Detecting life through atmospheric chemistry will likely be how we first confirm it.
There are several space telescopes from ESA, NASA and China due for launch in the next ten years that will improve on current abilities. However, it's possible definitive proof may even come before then with current space telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope detected the dimethyl disulfide on K2-18b, and it is lined up to look at other alien-life candidate exoplanets in the coming months and years.
With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy
This requires the driver to charge using CATL's own 4C superchargers. Domestic, or most commercial charging won't happen as quickly. Still, this shows the direction of travel - EVs with long ranges that quickly charge. 4C superchargers don't seem to be available outside of China yet, but like everything else hi-tech, I'm sure it won't be long before China will be able to sell it to other countries.
Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China.
A three-year UBI study done in Germany shows that a guaranteed monthly check increased labor market exploration and increased work satisfaction.
The Road to Safe AGI: How Tech Giants Are Managing the Risks of Artificial General Intelligence: Google DeepMind & OpenAI reveal key strategies to manage risks and ensure the responsible rise of AGI.
Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings - Adults could one day grow their own replacement teeth instead of having fillings – as scientists make a key discovery. - Futurology Today
Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings - Adults could one day grow their own replacement teeth instead of having fillings – as scientists make a key discovery. - Futurology Today
New Fungus-Based Building Material Heals Itself, Paving the Way Toward Self-Repairing Structures.
Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings - Adults could one day grow their own replacement teeth instead of having fillings – as scientists make a key discovery.
You can't hide from ChatGPT – new viral AI challenge can geo-locate you from almost any photo – we tried it and it's wild and worrisome.
Australian researchers have achieved a breakthrough in treating Parkinson's Disease by grafting new neural tissue into the brain.
A new study published in Nature Machine Intelligence introduces a wearable AI system designed to assist blind and visually impaired individuals with real-time navigation.
This Astrum video does a good job of explaining things. In short, China's experimental work on its space station is all targeted at practical steps to help it build a Moon base, and have manned missions to the outer solar system.
In particular, they focus on 5 key areas. 1. Orbital Construction Technology, 2. Space Robotics & Automation, 3. Energy and Propulsion Innovation, 4. Life Support & Sustainability, 5. Generic Technology for Spacecraft.
They've already succeeded with key breakthroughs, including a system for producing oxygen that is far superior to the system on the ISS which needs a third of the ISS's energy to function.
America, partnered with Europe, is still pursuing its SLS/Orbital Gateway plans that look ever more doomed as time goes on. A wildcard are commercial space systems that could rapidly take-off. If not, by doggedly pursuing its plans, at some point China may pull into the lead in the space race.
China's experiments on the Tiangong space station back up its claims that it wants a human base on the Moon, and long-range manned missions to Mars and Jupiter.
I think it is true AI lacks true creativity, but the point is you don't need creativity for lots of commercial art.
Stock music, stock videos, video game environments, etc - the industries that made them have always employed creative humans, but they can be made by AI that doesn't have true creativity.
One-off gene-editing therapy could permanently lower cholesterol: In an early-stage trial, a single dose of a CRISPR treatment lowered cholesterol levels, possibly permanently.
This is a lab result on mice, so likely still years away from treatments available to humans.
Still, here's a thought to ponder. If gene editing treatments to make people smarter, kinder, and more sociable were widely available, do you think some people would feel threatened ?
Those traits and others correlate with political persuasions. People might argue that people being smarter, kinder, and more sociable are worse for society, in order to protect their political power base.
Interesting there's no mention of unemployment via AI/robotics in DW's reporting of this issue.
There are dozens of open-source robotics projects around the world, including another humanoid robot called Tiangong. Hugging Face's actions are significant because of the prominent role it plays among AI developers. It functions as a version of GitHub, but just for AI - except now it may do the same for robotics too. It has always been committed to open-source (its own tools are open-source).
That open-source AI has kept pace, and in some cases bettered, investor-funded AI has taken many by surprise. Could the same happen in robotics development?
Hugging face lets the public use a lot of the AI tools it hosts.
but this still makes me sad:
One piece of good news is that solar seems that it may be being adopted as a technology, on the familiar s-curve of technological adoption. So it may go from 6.9% to 50% much quicker than we expect.
That is a terrible guess, and it isn’t even remotely close on the scale of decades.
No. It's based on how technologies are adopted, which tends to follow an s-curve.
Level 4 self-driving cars are already on the road in China & the US.
Yes. The logic of al these changes with AI & robotics being able to do most work, is that some sort of socialism is the only economic system that will work in the future.
I suspect from now on we will see more and more strikes and protests like these. I'd guess by 2030 or so they will be a widespread global phenomenon. By that point, self-driving cars will rapidly be replacing most driving jobs too.
Most of us instinctively feel sympathy with the striking workers - deep down we know AI/robots will be coming for our jobs one day too.
But there's a paradox here. AI tends towards what economists call zero marginal cost, in plain language - near free.
What if AI Doctors as good as humans were nearly free & every human on the planet had access to their expertise. Surely, that is something to go on strike for - not against.