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Organoid intelligence (OI) is an emerging scientific field aiming to create biocomputers where lab-grown brain organoids serve as ‘biological hardware’

In their article, published in Frontiers in Science, Smirnova et al., outline the multidisciplinary strategy needed to pursue this vision: from next-generation organoid and brain-computer interface technologies, to new machine-learning algorithms and big data infrastructures.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to upload your mind to a computer? To have a digital copy of your personality, memories, and skills that could live on after your biological death? This is the idea behind whole brain emulation, a hypothetical process of scanning a brain and creating a software version of it that can run on any compatible hardware. In this video, we will explore the science and challenges of whole brain emulation, the ethical and social implications of creating digital minds, and the potential benefits and risks of this technology for humanity. Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of whole-brain emulation!
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AI systems mass-producing cheap research would be bad news for an already struggling scientific ecosystem.

The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the length and the quality of our lives, and the technology that is commonplace in the modern world would have seemed like magic to our ancestors.

For all of these reasons and more, science is rightly celebrated and revered. However, a healthy pro-science attitude is not the same thing as “scientism”, which is the view that the scientific method is the only way to establish truth. As the problem of consciousness is revealing, there may be a limit to what we can learn through science alone.

Perhaps the most worked out form of scientism was the early 20th century movement knows as logical positivism. The logical positivists signed up to the “verification principle”, according to which a sentence whose truth can’t be tested through observation and experiments was either logically trivial or meaningless gibberish. With this weapon, they hoped to dismiss all metaphysical questions as not merely false but nonsense.

The Monty Hall Problem.

Goat or no Goat!

Matt Hodgson reviews Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI by Anil Ananthaswamy.

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A very dangerous position to be in the world community of scientist should gather in agreement those friendly to the values and principles of democracy to advance science for the good humanity and freedom.

The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

By Saima S. Iqbal

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Terry Tao is one of the world’s leading mathematicians and winner of many awards including the Fields Medal. He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Following his talk, Terry is in conversation with fellow mathematician Po-Shen Loh.

The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.

‘Earth Science to Action: How NASA connects space to village’ Learn from experts how NASA’s cutting-edge Earth observation and satellite technology is empowering communities worldwide to tackle climate change and natural disasters. This talk, organised by the SERVIR-HKH initiative at ICIMOD, features key speakers Dan Irwin (SERVIR Global Program Manager) and Ashutosh Limaye (SERVIR Chief Scientist) from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Learn how these advancements are bridging the gap between data and actionable insights for a thriving planet.

Science news, Egyptian crocodile news: Modern technology is helping us to learn more and more about our ancient past. I can only imagine what secrets technology might help reveal in the future.