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Hospitals and airplanes ban the use of cell phones, because their electromagnetic transmissions can interfere with sensitive electrical devices. Could the brain also fall into that category? Of course, all our thoughts, sensations and actions arise from bioelectricity generated by neurons and transmitted through complex neural circuits inside our skull. Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out …

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Google has fired engineer Blake Lemoine on Friday after Lemoine expressed concern early in June that Google's LaMDA artificial intelligence had become sentient. LaMDA is short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications and was programmed by Google as a chatbot that mimics speech by ingesting trillions of words from around the internet. LaMDA is described by …

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La Mancha Negra (The Black Stain) is a mysterious black substance that has oozed from roads in Caracas, Venezuela, first appearing in 1986.[1] Since the appearance of La Mancha Negra, it has caused multiple car accidents and claimed many lives.[2] Determining the cause of the substance has proven difficult and there are still no definitive explanations,[3] despite almost two decades of …

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Source: The Guardian Gray goo (also can be spelled as: grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves,[1][2] a scenario that has been called ecophagy (the literal consumption of the ecosystem).[3] The original idea assumed machines were …

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is about to start smashing subatomic particles together at unheard-of energy levels to reveal more of the secrets of the universe. Ten years ago, the collider unearthed the so-called ‘God particle’, the Higgs boson. From next Tuesday, it will start again — running for four years at an all-time-high energy of …

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A Google engineer who argued that the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) is sentient has been placed on personal leave. A spokesperson for the company declined to elaborate on the reasons behind the suspension, noting that it is “a longstanding, private personnel matter.” Multiple news outlets have reported that Blake Lemoine, the senior software engineer from …

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