We are at a crucial crossroad for humanity. What can we do now to shape it towards AI enhanced future?
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Nov 14 2024
The Rise of Agentic AI: Transforming Daily Life by 2025
I was looking at the amazing computational advances of Nvidia’s new A200 chips, which will enable “agentic AI”. Agentic AI is where you can assign an AI assistant to independently take on an assigned task which could involve multiple steps and “modalities” i.e. text/visual/video/audio, access the internet live, check it results and report back – …
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Nov 08 2024
Endless Returns of the Longevity Dividend
I’m a big fan of Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva. A true pioneer in the world of slowing and reversing aging, she recently wrote an article called, Endless Returns: BioViva, Gene Therapy, and the Global Economy. The article explores the revolutionary potential of gene therapy in addressing aging and its economic implications. Longevity-enhancing interventions can …
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Oct 22 2024
AI-Enabled Robots as Companions and Assistants
AI-enabled robots are evolving to become essential companions and assistants in daily life, particularly addressing loneliness among the elderly. These robots will perform various tasks while providing emotional support. Despite ethical challenges, their benefits are expected to significantly enhance human quality of life.
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Jul 10 2024
Your Personal AI Health Care Assistant – (here shortly)
Image thx to Dall-E 3 Personal AI assistants are already showing up via smart chatbots that have been fed with appropriate data uploads. The chat bot can respond in an intelligent fashion from the corpus of data that was uploaded. May seem cute at first, but this is just the beginning. We are quickly moving …
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Jun 18 2024
The Future of Retirement: AI and the Quest for Longer, Healthier Lives
As we stand on the brink of unprecedented technological advancements, the concept of retirement is undergoing a radical transformation. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and breakthroughs in medical science are setting the stage for a future where living healthier, longer lives is not just a dream but an impending reality. Here are some of …
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Oct 01 2021
How The Pandemic Changes Retirement
The pandemic will very likely speed up the time when people’s healthy life span (or healthspan) is further extended. Impacts to retirement are huge.
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Apr 14 2020
Why Die? Pandemic Pushes Progress
Why Do We Pay More Attention to Viruses Vs. Aging? Pandemics lead to increased contemplation of death. A surprising result may be the acceleration of life extension and age reversal therapies! Recently, the number of world-wide casualties to Covid-19 went over 100,000. Somewhere over 80% of people who die from the virus are over the …
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Sep 27 2019
Will Health Extension Make Retirement Savings Unnecessary?
A continuing flow of promising research on aging points to a growing likelihood that healthy life spans will soon get a significant boost. It is also possible that initial progress in extending “health spans” by a few years will unfold further into “longevity escape velocity” – where remaining life span gets increased by more than 1 …
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Feb 09 2019
Technology Friend or Foe?
it is good to seek out,and learn from thought leaders who are in touch with the tremendous impacts that technological advances may have on our lives and our world
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- Poetry by History’s Greatest Poets or AI? People Can’t Tell the Difference—and Even Prefer the Latter. What Gives? November 19, 2024Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote: The air is thick with tension, My mind is a tangled mess, The weight of my emotions Is heavy on my chest. This apparently Plath-like verse was produced by GPT-3.5 in response to the prompt “write a short poem in the style of Sylvia Plath.” The stanza […]Andrew Dean
- A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From Scratch November 18, 2024All life on Earth is written with four DNA “letters.” An AI just used those letters to dream up a completely new genome from scratch. Called Evo, the AI was inspired by the large language models, or LLMs, underlying popular chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. These models have taken the world by […]Shelly Fan
- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 16) November 16, 2024COMPUTING IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done on Quantum Hardware John Timmer | Ars Technica “There’s a general consensus that we won’t be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade. It’s still an […]Singularity Hub Staff
- MIT’s New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation Whipped Up by Generative AI November 15, 2024A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train a robot dog using 100 percent synthetic data. Traditionally, robots have been hand-coded to perform particular tasks, but this approach results in brittle systems that struggle to cope with the uncertainty […]Edd Gent
- Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You November 14, 2024When I was a young kid, our neighborhood didn’t have any grocery stores. The only place to buy fruits and vegetables was at our local farmer’s market. My mom would pick out the freshest tomatoes and sauté them with eggs into a simple dish that became my comfort food. The tomatoes were hideous to look […]Shelly Fan
- Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key November 12, 2024In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages differently—with some assuming they convey […]Olaf Lipinski
- This Ambitious Project Wants to Sequence the DNA of All Complex Life on Earth November 11, 2024“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first announced. It seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi. Documenting these genomes is the first step to building an atlas […]Shelly Fan
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- Dietary Diversity Is Associated With Delayed Aging November 20, 2024An analysis of data from over twenty thousand people has indicated that greater dietary diversity is associated with slower biological aging [1]. Your health is what […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- Intranasal Spray Alleviates Early Alzheimer’s in Mice November 19, 2024A novel therapy based on induced neuronal stem cells shows promise in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease – and it can be administered intranasally [1]. Who needs cells? […]Arkadi Mazin
- Engineering T Cells to Fight Brain Cancer November 18, 2024Researchers publishing in Nature have reported a new advance in developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells to fight solid tumors in the brain. A difficult endeavor […]Josh Conway
- Study of Direct Reprogramming Challenges Consensus November 15, 2024Scientists have shown that in a direct cellular reprogramming scenario, neurons are produced almost exclusively by a rare subtype of multipotent cells. Their […]Arkadi Mazin
- Preventing Alzheimer’s Proteins From Accumulating November 14, 2024Boosting a key autophagy-related protein discourages a core component of Alzheimer’s from taking hold, according to a study published in Aging Cell. Taking out the trash Autophagy is the maintenance process of the cell, […]Josh Conway
- A Senolytic Accelerates Reproductive Aging in Aged Mice November 13, 2024In a new study, researchers tested the impact of the senolytic drug ABT-263 on the reproductive systems of old female mice. ABT-263 treatment did not rescue age-related changes in hormonal levels, further depleted ovarian reserves, […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- Rozalyn Anderson Explains Caloric Restriction November 12, 2024At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Rozalyn Anderson is studying one of the oldest-known and yet most powerful anti-aging interventions: caloric restriction (CR). Back in 1935, CR helped launch the entire longevity field when a pioneering study by Clive […]Arkadi Mazin