In this edition, the top news starts with:
Taking profiling to a whole new level, we can now digitally, racially and socially profile so well the ACLU is involved…
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17379968/amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-surveillance-aclu
One shining star at Big Think seems to have not paid attention to Artificial General Intelligence systems like ICOM; that are emotion based, with subjective experience…
A professor at Tufts University is pushing battery technology further. Improved battery technology could change the world in many ways.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/05/20/a-battery-that-could-change-the-world
Carnegie Mellon University has a new self-healing material that is able to spontaneously fix itself; promising electronic circuits that could repair themselves and continue to function in spite of significant damage.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521131748.htm
Helping to bring the AI overlords faster, Samsung is opening a massive AI research center in the UK.
AI Decentralized launches a new plan to power 100 blockchain powered scams… er… I mean ‘projects’….
Intel atop Bing AI ads, IBM Watson tops Google AI ads.
Lastly, the Singularity Index or S.I. is flat at 995.23, a lot of it having to do with market turmoil.
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