stories on progress « the Kurzweil Library

AlphaZero’s ‘alien’ superhuman-level program masters chess in 24 hours with no domain knowledge

Like a robot building a Ferrari from thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine

3D-printing biocompatible living bacteria

Applications include skin transplants and nanofilters that break down toxic substances

New technology allows robots to visualize their own future

Why (most) future robots won’t look like robots

Plus: soft robots get superpowers (equivalent to a duck lifting a car)

Using light instead of electrons promises faster, smaller, more-efficient computers and smartphones

New nanomaterial, quantum encryption system could be ultimate defenses against hackers

Space dust may transport life between worlds

A hypervelocity bioparticle from Earth could have reached identified potential habitable planets

Using microrobots to diagnose and treat illness in remote areas of the body

Take a fantastic 3D voyage through the brain with immersive VR system

Plus a “journey to the center of the cell” with 360 VR movies

Disturbing video depicts near-future ubiquitous lethal autonomous weapons

The technology described in the film already exists, says UC Berkeley AI researcher Stuart Russell

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