what ai can replace interactive robotic seal that comforts and calms. built for animal-assisted teraphy to people in care facilities, the nhs has trialledit with dementia patients. objects like this can become more beneficial to ageing societies than having real pets as they have no demands.
what is cryptocurrency in ai?
this mini-computer is making money right now by mining bitcoin (although, due to its modest size, the amount is likely to be very small). bitcoin is a 'cryptocurrency' - a decentralised digital currency generated through the calculation of complex math problems.
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3d printed martian homes what could living on mars look like? the architects foster + partners designed these modular martian homes in response to a nasa backed competition. in order to send the minimum amount of material from earth, the base is comprised of an inflatable shelter that is then covered in regolith, the loose soil and rocks found on mars's surface. a team of robots would assemble the buildings before the astronauts' arrival.
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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SUSPECTS DNA LEFT BEHIND AT THE CRIME SCENE a criminal genetic profile for forsenic investigation
is this process ethical? investigators are increasingly able to calculate the physical characteristics of suspects from the dna they leave behind at crime scenes. but some question the accuracy of the technology, and worry what implications these inexact predictions might have for racial and gender profiling. is it ethical to create criminal profiles based on scientific, yet still spectulative, processes of data analysis?
Advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence now promise to radically extend our lifespans. The idea of reawakening after death or uploading one's mind onto a computer used to be the stuff of fiction, but pioneering research in this field is currently in progress. experimental and extremely expesnive, the potential for life extension also opens up ethical and financial issues. there are more generous ways to think about immortality, such as preserving the genetic material of other species or recording artefacts and documents for posterity. but perhaps the more striking possibility is that the technologies we create will outlive us. ai researchers predict an intelligence explosion in the future where machines could gain their own autonomy, potenitally becoming an entirely new species: a global consciousness of interconnected computerised intellects.
The reason humans are on top of the food chain is not down to sharp teeth or strong muscles. Human dom tirely due to our ingenuity and intelligence. We can get the better of bigger, faster, stronger animals be and use tools to control them: both physical tools such as cages and weapons, and cognitive tools like tioning. This poses a serious question about artificial intelligence: will it, one day, have the same advanta rely on just "pulling the plug" either, because a sufficiently advanced machine may anticipate this move a is what some call the "singularity": the point in time when human beings are no longer the most intellig as long as we don't let artificial intelligence get out of hand, it will only make our lives easier and supp
minance is almost enecause we can create e training and condiage over us? We can't and defend itself. This gent beings on earth. port us in the future.