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  Sérgio Figueiredo Jr

  

  Humanoid robots are getting close to reality

  The Economist

  Asked a question, Ameca fixes you with sapphire-blue eyes. Does that face contain a hint of a smile? “Yes, I am a robot,” is the reply. Another …

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  Sérgio Figueiredo Jr

  

  

  Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air

  The Wall Street Journal. - Christopher Mims

  The idea of a perpetual machine—one that, once set in motion, never stops—is preposterous. The energy it needs must come from somewhere. But a twist on the idea, where energy is sponged from the environment to power ultra-efficient devices, isn’t a fantasy. Some people even call it perpetual …

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  Sérgio Figueiredo Jr

  

  Entire human chess knowledge learned and surpassed by DeepMind's AlphaZero in four hours

  The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton,

  Hundreds of years of chess knowledge was learned and then surpassed by Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence algorithm in just four hours, it has emerged. The astonishing programme AlphaZero quickly mastered the ancient game, before coming up with completely new strategies, which are now being …

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  Sérgio Figueiredo Jr

  

  Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain

  MIT Technology Review - M. Mitchell Waldrop

  AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually …

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  Sérgio Figueiredo Jr

  

  Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity

  The Atlantic - Derek Thompson

  How the secretive Silicon Valley lab is trying to resurrect the lost art of invention I. The Question A snake-robot designer, a balloon scientist, a liquid-crystals technologist, an extradimensional physicist, a psychology geek, an electronic-materials wrangler, and a journalist walk into a room. The …

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  Sérgio Figueiredo Jr

  

  How To Make 500,000 Cars Without Humans

  Forbes - Jon Markman

  Elon Musk is obsessed with speed. From rockets to hyperloops to electric cars, fast is kind of his thing. Now he wants to apply the same aesthetic to manufacturing. Critics argue it’s another pipe dream, born out of necessity. Tesla, his controversial car business, is supposed to deliver 400,000 …