Tom Wakeford and Jackie Haq discuss the dangers of keeping private the debate into the consequences of
artificial life research (26 June, p 26).
Not exact matches
IBM Fellow and Vice President of Healthcare and
Life Sciences
Research Ajay Royyuru, however, thinks
artificial intelligence can go even further and help us understand the most complex entity on the planet — ourselves.
They have signed an open letter offering cautious advice for the field of
artificial intelligence, which was published this week by the Future of
Life Institute, a
research organisation in Boston.
In recent years, researchers in
artificial intelligence (AI) have used this computational firepower on the scads of data accumulating online, in academic
research, in financial records, and in virtually all walks of
life.
More than 7 million Americans are
living with an
artificial (prosthetic) knee (4.7 million) or hip (2.5 million), which may have significant future implications in terms of the need for ongoing patient care, according to new
research presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).
After two decades of basic
research on designing tiny
artificial machines in test tubes, the field has recently reached a new milestone where the functionality of these tiny machines was evaluated in
live bodies.
Genome editing — which can directly manipulate the genome information of various organisms without leaving an
artificial strand — has seen rapid progress in recent years and it is gradually becoming a revolutionary tool in fields ranging from
life sciences to advanced medical
research.
Wistar researchers also create new tools for melanoma
research, including three - dimensional «
artificial skin» that serves as a model for studying how
living tumors behave, as well as a proving ground for new therapeutics.
Prof. Su's current
research fields include the design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated
living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of
living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting,
artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.
Genome editing - which can directly manipulate the genome information of various organisms without leaving an
artificial strand - has seen rapid progress in recent years and it is gradually becoming a revolutionary tool in fields ranging from
life sciences to advanced medical
research.
The exhibit raises questions about regenerative medicine, DNA manipulation, and scientific antibody
research, and features an artificially - engineered antibody that bears the name «Lynn Hershman» in its molecular structure, providing a glimpse into the groundbreaking ways in which natural and
artificial life are increasingly dissolving in the age of synthetic technology.
It continues to the present with her newest projects, among which is the Infinity Engine, a functioning genetics laboratory that proposes possible scenarios for the future of
life on Earth, not «sci - fi,» as Hershman Leeson puts it, but «sci - tru,» based on biogenetic
research,
artificial intelligence, cloning, mutations, transgenic experiments and regenerative medicine.
Strijbos shows two kinetic light sculptures - Axon and Homeostase that are the result of a broader
research on
artificial life and generative composition.
While its known it poses a risk to both
life and
artificial satellites, I've not heard of any
research which attempts to correlate huge increases of radiation and significantly weakened magnetosphere protection with climate
research.
The 2018 Budget reaffirmed this commitment, with one of the five innovation superclusters focusing on
artificial intelligence - powered supply chains that would create jobs and develop
research to improve standard of
living.
For instance, Waymo is Alphabet's self - driving car arm, DeepMind focuses on
artificial intelligence, and Verily
researches healthcare and
life sciences.
There will also be a
research platform that examines the effects of
artificial gravity on
living tissues and plants.
Jan. 13: After the first conference held by the Future of
Life Institute on the «future of
artificial intelligence» in Puerto Rico on Jan. 2 - 4, prominent scientists and researchers from industry and academia issue an open letter calling for AI and smart machine
research that is «robust and beneficial» to humanity and linking to a document outlining «
research directions that can help maximize the societal benefit of AI» including numerous questions on «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»