Category: Technology
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Think stupid! (The foundation of thinking)
The brain detects 3D shape fragments (bumps, hollows, shafts, spheres) in the beginning stages of object vision – a newly discovered strategy of natural intelligence that researchers also found in artificial intelligence networks trained to recognize visual objects. (1) Artificial intelligence. Natural intelligence. What difference could they have? You see, the main characteristic of intelligence…
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Creating. Roaming free. (Will you kill me?)
Robots exploring deep bodies of water can only go so far before needing to recharge and upload data. Purdue University engineers have designed a mobile docking station system that would help them go farther. (1) How proud we are when creating something. Especially when creating something autonomous. Something that will roam free and independent. So…
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Through the mist…
Some years ago, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted many of our interactions online, with Zoom video calls replacing in-person classes, work meetings, conferences and other events. Will all that screen time damage our vision? Maybe not. It turns out that our visual perception is highly adaptable, according to new research. (1) Seeing through the mist.…
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Computer models. Predicting. Empty thoughts…
Researchers have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals. In a way, it is as if the computer tries to imagine what a human is thinking about. As a result of this imagining, the computer is able to produce entirely new information, such as fictional images that…
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Everything interacting…
Keeping qubits stable – those quantum equivalents of classic computing bits – will be key to realizing the potential of quantum computing. Now scientists have found a new obstacle to this stability: natural radiation. It’s around us all the time, and so this poses something of a problem for future quantum computers. Through a series…
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