this is literally the first time in human history that there are more people over 65 than children under 5
i don't know who needs to hear this but there's no scenario where this demographic inversion ends well
this is literally the first time in human history that there are more people over 65 than children under 5
i don't know who needs to hear this but there's no scenario where this demographic inversion ends well
🚨Ship 40 is now resting on the back of a true GIANT!
It looks tiny compared to the ship! They both have a journey of almost 13.000 nautical miles ahead of them! 🤯
ETA Starbase, TX: Sometime toward the end of September/early October.
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i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication
and what it's already found is insane...
> AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back more, revealing a form of personal naming once thought almost uniquely human
> AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other
> AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands
> AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means
> an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds
> Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species
> AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks
> a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language
Competições de humanoides e robôs é o esporte raiz de verdade!
Tipo, quem vai querer ver humanos fingindo se baterem? Ninguém pode lutar de verdade no ring!
As pessoas querem ver os oponentes massacrados, detonados, isso que é épico!
O coliseu foi o precursor dos jogos de verdade, mas se os competidores morrerem não vão ter muitos competidores para competirem, e pega mau ver gente morrendo no jogos. Nas robôs podem destruir seus oponentes nas competições, isso que dá emoção!
As competições humanas vão perder a graça rapidamente!
Os esportes roboticos vão ser 10x a 100x maiores que os esportes humanos, e gera muito mais e emoções no público.
A vida com trilha sonora é um psicodélico eletrônico viciante!
Tenho passado o dia com fones, e o dia comum e chato se torna muito mais dahora.
Imagina se tivéssemos uma IA gerando trilha sonora em tempo real, com BCI, e pudéssemos andar por aí como se a vida fosse um filme?
U.S. company Satyress is developing threehalves, a centaur-style robot designed for dangerous environments such as wildfires, rubble searches, toxic areas and confined spaces. The system combines a humanoid upper body with a quadruped mobility platform. #USA#Robotics#UGV#AI
.@_robtoews predicts humans will be able to communicate through telepathy by 2030.
He argues the breakthrough has already been demonstrated in research labs, where scientists have translated thoughts directly into words using BCIs.
"I would actually say that telepathy has been achieved today. What I would define as telepathy is if you can think thoughts and have your thoughts translated into words that other people can read or hear. That's already been accomplished by BCIs."
"Eddie Chang, who's one of the world's leading BCI researchers at UCSF, runs the neurosurgery department. His lab has demonstrated in recent years that you can implant BCI chips into people's brains, tell what they're trying to say, and turn those brain signals into actual words."
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The next space telescope will be 100X larger than the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Starship will enable multiple daily flights.
We will be able to build things of monumental scale in the weightlessness of orbit.
We need to start thinking big about space.
What is the largest source of electricity in each country?
Coal generates one-third of the world’s electricity, more than any other source.
But zoom into the country level, and the picture is much more varied. The map shows which source generated the most power in each country in 2024 or 2025 (the latest year available).
Thanks to large reserves, coal dominates across Asia. It’s the largest source in China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia. These are huge power producers, which is why coal is so dominant at a global level.
Across most other regions, it’s mostly a mix of gas and hydropower. On islands and parts of North Africa, it’s oil.
Europe has the most diverse mix, with nuclear power dominating generation in countries such as France and Finland, and solar and wind overtaking fossil fuels as the largest sources in countries such as Spain and Germany.
Solar and wind are growing quickly in many countries; when these sources are combined as “variable renewables”, they become the largest source in six more countries: the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Pakistan.
(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie.)