On the show this week:
- Space Rocks
- It Thinks It Can’t
- Still, Life
- Mind interfering with Matter
- There Are No Words
CQ: Which will come first: Homo Sapiens Roboticus, in which symbiotic AI are merged with human beings, or Roboticus Sapiens, in which free-will robots exist on their own right? Why?
Full list of 22 articles after the jump!
- Space Rocks:
- Apparently, evidence you can’t see may be evidence you need..: ScienceAlert – New paper claims that the EM Drive doesn’t defy Newton’s 3rd law after all
- Short answer: they don’t reject, they just use different “facts” and “methods” from which to draw conclusions.: Little Atoms – Why are people who reject conventional science so in love with its trappings?
- It involves rockets.: The Washington Post – Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ mission to Mars
- Are we overthinking this?: Quartz – As Silicon Valley lays plans to colonize Mars, researchers offer a blueprint for governing it
- Ah, the scent of lonely, lonely space..: New Scientist – I smelled comet 67P’s deadly pong and lived to tell the tale
- Well, I guess its our move, first..: LiveScience – E.T. Phones Earth? 1,500 Years Until Contact, Experts Estimate
- It Thinks It Can’t:
- (EXTRA) What if they make more sense than we do?: New Scientist – Why you should worry about intelligent machines
- (EXTRA) I’ve seen worse.: io9 – (O) Watch This Fascinatingly Incoherent Short Film Written By a Neural Network
- (EXTRA) Games will never be the same, and neither will sociopolitical pseudoreligious debates..: New Scientist – Forget killer robots: This is the future of supersmart machines
- (EXTRA) Anything that puts formulaic music composers out of business can’t be all that bad.: The Verge – (O) Google’s art machine just wrote its first song
- (EXTRA) Clearly, we will always depend on machines more capable than ourselves — once we are clever enough to build them.: Gizmodo – The World’s Oldest Computer May Have Been Used to Predict the Future
- (EXTRA) From roBOT to roBAT?: RocketNews24 – (O) Japan’s better farming through precision drone strikes
- Still, Life:
- (EXTRA) Figures: where were they when I needed them?: Nova Next – (O) Some Genes Don’t Turn On Until After You Die
- (EXTRA) Not a metaphor.: Unknown source: – (O) This 25-year-old lived for more than a year without a heart
- (EXTRA) Hoorah! The supercomputers may not only let us live, but live better!: LiveScience – AI Boosts Cancer Screens to Nearly 100 Percent Accuracy
- (EXTRA) If we stop getting cancer, will we stop understanding it?: The UK Independent – ‘Universal cancer vaccine’ breakthrough claimed by experts
- (EXTRA) Can you really tell that they aren’t sleeping all the time?: LiveScience – Do Trees Sleep at Night?
- Mind interfering with Matter:
- (EXTRA) Short answer: they aren’t, but people won’t tell you about them.: The Boston Globe – Why alien abductions are down dramatically
- (EXTRA) Short answer: it’s hard to undo what’s been done for so long (but not impossible).: LiveScience – Male Doctors, Female Nurses: Subconscious Stereotypes Hard to Budge
- (EXTRA) Short answer: the natural world is capable of following basic rules, and so are architects.: Gizmodo – Submerged ‘Lost City’ is Actually a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon
- There Are No Words:
- (EXTRA) The world doesn’t know the words?: LiveWire/The Conversation – (O) What’s Causing Mysterious ‘Worldwide Hum?’
- (EXTRA) Cthulhu doesn’t know the words either, but he knows the tune all too well..: Gizmodo – (O) An Unearthly Sound Is Emanating From the Caribbean Sea
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