3D printing has attracted media attention with products from small plastic devices to big items like cars and houses. Now, science has achieved remarkable success in printing human organs from our own cells which work not only in the lab but in humans. We will soon be able to create banks of human spare parts.
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Brain-Machine Interface
The Matrix Is Becoming Reality
The ultimate application of AI is to connect the human brain to a hard disk. The goal is to be able to upload and download information between the two media. It would expand the capacity of human “knowledge” to the near infinite. But what else does it do? How about emotions? Or ethics? As we are getting closer to mastering this technologically? Are we ready socially?
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Online Productivity
Let The Computer Work For You
As we spend more and more time online, we often get lost in the enormous amount of data available. However, there’s help.
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Swarm Intelligence
Better Decisions
Swarm intelligence is part of the general “crowd wisdom” phenomenon known in nature among ants, bees, starlings, sardines and other fauna species. Artificial intelligence and robots are now being combined into new products that are self-learning and self-organizing and with algorithms that make swarms better decision makers than individuals and even experts.
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Weapons of Math Destruction
The Threat of Algorithms
AI algorithms are used extensively in loan applications, credit scores, having your CV examined during a job search, being accepted into a university program, etc.
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Future of Education
Schools in The Digital Age
We are all familiar with the traditional K-12 education. It has been a pillar of the Western societies for a century and has been the foundation for the high standard of living we enjoy today.
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