AI is yet again making significant strides in the field of biology by accelerating evolution. It is making better CRISPR tools (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) at an unprecedented…
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One thing which is being told increasingly these days is that we are living in the Singularity. Let us understand what it actually means. Ray Kurzweil in his book The…
Antibiotic resistance is becoming increasingly common. In layman terms, it simply means that certain microorganisms, or bacteria, develop the ability to become immune to the antibiotics that humans take to…
Human learning at its core involves understanding and refining of accurate predictive models of reality. This is done through a constant feedback mechanism and compressing knowledge to make it understandable….
What would be the legal system applicable on Mars? That is a question that has fascinated countless individuals. We have the redundant Outer Space Treaty (OST) and the Moon Treaty,…
Moravec’s Paradox holds that AI finds tasks that humans consider hard as easy, while tasks humans find easy remain hard for AI. This was true during the initial days of…
Human languages are lossy compression. Lost in translation is not just a phrase but a reality. If you explain in words an image to your friend, you can provide only…
Recently, the Trump Administration passed two very interesting Executive Orders titled “Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation” and “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks.” The first order…
Recently, Elon Musk posted about making antimatter to travel to other star systems, and Jared Isaacman replied to his post stating that he supports antimatter propulsion. This created a lot…
The field of science, tech, and mathematics is advancing at an unprecedented pace today. Often, there is news that cogent solutions to old unsolved problems of math, physics and chemistry…