3D printing has moved from the printing of small prototypes to industrial manufacturing (like printing the blades for airplanes turbine) and has expanded the possibility of materials that can be printed. Bio-printing is not new, researchers, and doctors, have been printing tissues using cells, starting from skin up to cartilage …
Read More »How much data … is actually being used by our brain?
In the previous post I voiced my feeling that comparing the processing capability of a brain vs a computer or their storage capability is like comparing apples and oranges. You cannot compare the number of neurons/synapses of the brain to the number of bytes in a storage memory, nor the …
Read More »How much data … can be digested by our brain?
For at least 70 years scientists, researchers and lay people have been comparing the brain to the computer (actually, I remember that when I was young, taking the very first course on computers in high school, the computer was called “cervello elettronico”, Electronic Brain in Italian). The pursue of an …
Read More »At the border of science fiction
Although we are still far away from reading thoughts in a brain it seems that we may be inching forward. The latest I saw was the article “Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non invasive brain recording” published on Nature NeuroScience by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin. The …
Read More »Straight from the Brain
Ever hummed a tune in your head? I bet you have. Hence, you should agree that somewhere, somehow, your brain has recorded and stored that tune and it is able to play it back … on demand. Now the question is: could it be possible to let other people hear …
Read More »Is Generative AI a copycat or a creator?
As a follow up to yesterday post I would like to share some thought, mostly philosophical, on Generative AI. This is a relatively new branch of AI, initiated in 2018, that is using a sort of recurrent neural network with a twist. Basically it analyses in parallel many strings and …
Read More »64 million times better brain imaging
The quest to understand the wiring of the brain has been going on for several decades now. The Human Connectome Project has created a large data base of connections obtained by analysing thousands of slices of the brain and reconstructing the connections among millions and millions of neurones. However, even …
Read More »Computational photography is killing the Camera market – I
Well, digital cameras killed film cameras some 20 years ago (it took a decade for film camera to disappear but 20 years ago the trend was already clear…), now it is the turn of Computational Photography to kill, once and for all, the Digital camera market. Again, it will take …
Read More »The future is already in your ears
Earbuds have become so tiny and light that you can forget you are wearing them. For some, they have become an integral part of their “persona”. Let a few years go by and the broad adoption of aural augmented reality (getting augmented information through sound and voice, seamlessly, through earbuds) …
Read More »A glimpse on the “mind” of a jellyfish
Researchers have know for many years now that our basic brain components, the neurones, are functionally and physiologically very similar to neurones of all other species. That means that understanding the working of a snail neurone means understanding the working of “our” neurones. I know, it feels bad to know …
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