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SAS Delphi results – Self-Aware Machines

Area 6 – Self-Aware Machines Technology makes possible to create smaller and smaller objects that can self coordinate to achieve complex goals. Each component is an autonomous system on its own and is relatively cheap to manufacture and deploy. When clustered with many other similar (or exact replica) components the context …

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SAS Delphi results – Context Aware Machines

Area 5 – Context Aware Machines The drive towards autonomous systems requires machines to become context aware. Technology (sensors and AI) is supporting increasing levels of awareness. In the coming decades we can expect machines to increase their awareness to levels that may compare to the awareness of living beings, …

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TTM 2018 Overview – II

Keeping on the reporting from TTM 2018. Neuroscience and Brain The evolution of Brain Machine Interfaces is expected to progress at an accelerated pace in the coming decade, thanks to a multitude of research endeavor in many parts of the world. Work is progressing both in the area of non-invasive …

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TTM 2018 Overview – I

Yesterday I participated at the first day of Technology Time Machine in San Diego, an exciting event stimulating my grey cells. Get the final program.  Here I am sharing a few notes. Streaming of the talks will be available soon at the TTM website. It started with a keynote from …

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SAS Delphi results – Bio-augmented Machines

Area 4 – Bio augmented Machines The use of bio (carbon based and living cells) has been on the researchers’ bench for a while with experiment on merging neurons on chip to leverage on qualitatively different sort of computation. The evolution of bio-interfaces will support a variety of interactions potentially …

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SAS Delphi results – Augmented Humans

Area 3- Augmented Humans Bio-engineering and smart materials are converging in creating implants that can monitor life functions and expand life functionality, like eye implants first designed to recover sight might eventually provide 10x sight capability and extend human sight in the ultraviolet/infrared range (and beyond). DNA and RNA engineering …

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EquBot: your robot financial advisor

In a comprehensive list of jobs at risk of automation brokerage clerks have a 99% probability of seeing their job disappearing in the next 10 years. Ok. but that is about clerks… Financial Advisors have to be way smarter and in that list they are considered to have ONLY 58% …

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From farm to factory

Just last month I reported on Vertical farming as an alternative agriculture. Now I saw a news on fully robotised agriculture, looking much more like a factory than a farm. Iron Ox, an appropriate name I would say, a California company based in San Carlo, is demonstrating a completely automated …

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