Yes skynet we are sorry we won't post these things again we wouldn't want you to get angry

We are quite close imo. Chatbots are pretty dumb and most people will base their opinions on the likes of chatgpt or bing.

Some people seem to also think it's just slightly improved technology from decades ago and are not familiar with the advancements in transformer architecture and neural networks. Machines are learning on their own with no human input apart from initial parameters. Protein folding is a massive leap also. We are on the cusp of a new technological age now.

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This is the startup that spun out from that research, if you'd like to keep tabs on them.

https://www.morphoceuticals.com

I lack knowledge on this topic. My source is from Lydia and Claude Bourguignon, french "expert" on soil. They did an interview on it, however i just checked and stubled on articles critizing part of their unscientific method, so what i wrote may be wrong.

I may go outside their analysis.

I would be worried about food quality and its nutriments. Bourguignon's couple explained that vertical farming use a standardised soil for economical reason. So there won't be any terroir : soil's unique attribute that give a certain taste, nutriment to the vegetable. They can't put every soil components (too expensive) hence the lack of personality (taste) and nutriments.

So whatever is its location, it will have the same taste. A vegetable depend of the soil and climate to nuture its taste and nutriments.

As for animal, dunno but i think the lack of activities will hinder their health like us (=medications that will end up in your meal or soil). And their muscle fiber will be weak. They need exercises, sun and a healthy diet.

Futhermore, i wonder how much energy you will need for the soil, the light...we walk on it, the sun is warm, it is free, it's a lively gut that feed generations of various animals and plants. The apex of life.

So, let's imagine what could happen with a standardised meal...That's not a great futur.

We really need to stop industrial food, reduce our population and improve soil's quality by removing bad agricultural practice that spell doom to humanity survival and life.

Very interesting. I didn’t know lead behaved similar to asbestos. Now I understand what you’re saying?

How so? Unless there is some other driving factor of turning simple life into complex intelligent beings other than evolution through natural selection, then this is the only logical path. Not only that, but we also see it happening to us, the only intelligent life we can observe, so we know it does happen in 100% of our samples.

The paper is fascinating. And just a little intimidating.

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After reading the first 48 comments I highly recommend reading the linked article.

this is such a shortsighted way of viewing things in a universe that is older than your brain can comprehend

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It would open up slots for new programmers though as us old farts would die laughing at the mess.

Sorry but this article and the reaction to it seems to be sensationalized. the outrage here doesn’t match up with the actual chemistry taking place here.

Folks, Gasification of plastics is not a new technology. plastics contain organic molecules and can be decomposed via gasification into syngas which is then refined into sustainable fuels such as sustainable aviation fuel or renewable diesel. By definition, You don’t actually burn the plastic. You expose it to high heat without oxygen so that it doesn’t combust- this is what causes the molecular breakdown of the plastic into syngas. This is the syngas that is collected and refined via Fischer tropsch into new hydrocarbons.

There are no intermediate steps where micro plastics or other chemicals could come out of a smokestack, and a plant operator wouldn’t want that anyway. (It’s wasteful of feedstock, and the plastic is worth more as syngas than as trash)

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WFH is great for vital jobs. Social media corporations are at best non-essential and at worst straight up vampiric.

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ok but do you think that, semantically, an AI can know stuff or only "know" stuff.

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I doubt they would want to, because it would mean open sourcing vital chunks of the current operating systems they're shilling.

All my experience is on the other end.

I was an aviation electronics technician. I worked on the hardware.

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Submission Statement: This is a recent article by Blake Lemoine, who famously raised the possibility of Sentience in Google's Lamda AI. In this article, he expands on his initial concerns and comments on recent AI developments. Among other points, he is alarmed that the AI narrative being controlled by corporate PR departments.

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Except unlike batteries or gasoline, hydrogen is also colorless and odorless like carbon monoxide. So it's more like an invisible bomb that expands to the size of its container.

If you check the link, limb regeneration was achieved in frogs (that don't naturally regenerate) over a year ago. There're other experiments that have produced ectopic organs in tadpoles like extra eyes, hearts, and brains, though it's not as hard to accomplish in an organism that's already undergoing morphogenesis. Limbs are a good research target for morphogenesis in non-regenerative adults because they're isolated anatomically, are external, and feature a wide range of tissues including nerves.

There are studies underway on mice though growing limbs takes a while so it will take another year or three before we see the results of that.

However, the neat thing about this approach is how lateral it is with other anatomical structures. Because it's a top down approach that offloads the work to your cells, the same mechanisms for growing a limb can be used to grow an eye, liver, cartilage, or whatever. Again, this has been proven in tadpoles already. Once limbs are figured out other anatomical structures, like teeth, will quickly follow.

That all said, full in vivo regeneration is probably still another decade or two out from being available as an outpatient service. You'll probably have synthetic teeth produced via 3D printing, stem cell production, or cellular scaffolding before you're regrowing your teeth yourself.

My guess is that the great filter is that our galaxy has been too "hot" until recently. Life has sprung up millions of times, but supernovae, black hole radiation jets and the like have cooked worlds pretty regularly. We're out near the edge of the galaxy, so we're in the more distant and cooler section. We may also have been very lucky. Combine that with the limited speed of light preventing us from noticing many of the traces of intelligent that might be far away and faint.