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The extraordinary potential of anti-sound

The extraordinary potential of anti-sound

Sound has frequency, intensity, phases, etc. But an indispensable part of sound is its unseen side: silence.

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April 8, 2024, Great North American Eclipse

The great North American eclipse has arrived. The next coast-to-coast eclipse of this scale will probably be in 2045. Let's enjoy this one!

Artificial Intelligence and Hidden Learning: The Big Risk of “Weights”

Artificial Intelligence and Hidden Learning: Are “Weights” a risk?

If we still do not know exactly how artificial intelligence doses the weights in learning within the hidden layers, can we really predict its evolution?

From early photographs to generative AI: Manipulated reality and privacy risks?

From early photographs to generative AI: Manipulated reality and privacy risks?

The challenge now is finding out what the rules are?

Root Legacy: To the Edge of Consciousness

Root Legacy: To the Edge of Consciousness - Cyberpunk/SciFi novel

He has broken through their defenses. They won't forgive him. But he is not alone.

Artificial intelligence, science fiction and everyday life

Artificial intelligence, science fiction and everyday life

Generative AI products can produce written, graphical, and audio content or software programs with minimal human involvement, but also flat creative output and minimize the importance of human emotions and feelings involved in the creative process.

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

The fictional genre known as cyberpunk has deep political and cultural roots, with great authors such as William Gibson and Neal Stephenson shaping its development and success. 'Cyberpunk is a comet that has passed through the skies of speculative fiction and exploded in its heyday. We will long sail

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The imminent biological disintegration as a result of the radioactive catastrophe, the need for a 'belief', even if it is illusory (TV cult), the dumbing down of consciousness and ability to choose caused by the mass media.

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Babybot: Awareness and presence

Babybot: Awareness and presence

BabyBot, was born at the robotics laboratories of the University of Genoa and is the spearhead of the ADAPT project funded by the European Commission to explore the technological frontiers of artificial intelligence.

Building soldiers or re-creating the human being

Building soldiers or re-creating the human being?

The term robot was coined by the Czech writer Karel Capek. It first appeared in a novel called 'RUR' (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920). In Czech, 'robota' means 'work,' with emphasis on the fact that it is involuntary, i.e., forced, dependent work. In Polish, worker is translated as 'robotnik'.

Ghost in the Shell and the Root of Memory

Ghost in the Shell and the Root of Memory

when the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a compromise between the sedentary and the nomadic ethic, then we may find ourselves, among other things, in the ostentatious reworking of Japanese director Mamoru Oshii’s famous (but virtually misunderstood) anime: Ghost in the Shell.