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A US$500 billion accelerator of human progress — mansoor hanif, executive director, emerging technologies, NEOM.

Mansoor Hanif is the Executive Director of Emerging Technologies at NEOM (https://www.neom.com/en-us), a fascinating $500 billion planned cognitive city” & tourist destination, located in north west Saudi Arabia, where he is responsible for all R&D activities for the Technology & Digital sector, including space technologies, advanced robotics, human-machine interfaces, sustainable infrastructure, digital master plans, digital experience platforms and mixed reality. He also leads NEOM’s collaborative research activities with local and global universities and research institutions, as well as manages the team developing world-leading Regulations for Communications and Connectivity.

Prior to this role, Mr Hanif served as Executive Director, Technology & Digital Infrastructure, where he oversaw the design and implementation of NEOM’s fixed, mobile, satellite and sub-sea networks.

An industry leader, Mr Hanif has over 25 years of experience in planning, building, optimizing and operating mobile networks around the world. He is patron of the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP), a member of the Steering Board of the UK5G Innovation Network, and on the Advisory Boards of the Satellite Applications Catapult and University College London (UCL) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dept.

Prior to joining NEOM, Mr Hanif was Chief Technology Officer of Ofcom, the UK telecoms and media regulator, where he oversaw the security and resilience of the nation’s networks.

As Director of the Converged Networks Research Lab at BT, he led research into fixed and mobile networks to drive convergence across research initiatives.

Mr Hanif has held several other roles at EE (formerly Everything Everywhere), a UK-based telecommunications company, and was responsible for the technical launch of 4G and integration of the Orange and T-Mobile networks as Director of Radio Networks and board member of Mobile Broadband Network Limited. In addition, he held positions at both Orange Moldova and Vodafone Italy, overseeing network optimization, capacity expansion and the planning and implementation of new technologies.

Mr. Hanif holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London (UCL) and a Diplôme D’ingénieur from the École Nationale Superieure de Télécom de Bretagne.

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A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions.

Robots can deliver food on a college campus and hit a hole-in-one on the golf course, but even the most sophisticated robot can’t perform basic social interactions that are critical to everyday human life.

MIT.

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A futuristic Pill will soon have the ability to fix any issue with the Human body, cure any disease and even make you live longer. This advancement in Biology is made possible with the help of Artificial Intelligence in the form of Google’s Alphafold 2.0 which solved Protein Folding and created a huge medical database of all proteins for all scientists and researchers to use for free.

Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein chain is translated to its native three-dimensional structure, typically a “folded” conformation by which the protein becomes biologically functional. People like David Sinclair are using it to increase longevity and create future medicine and pills to give human actual superpowers.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 A “Once in a Lifetime” Invention.
00:59 What is Protein Folding?
03:48 How AI Revolutionized the Medical Industry.
05:58 What this means for the future of Medicine.
08:07 Current Problems with AlphaFold 2.0
09:07 Last Words.
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#longevity #medicine #proteins

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It has often been proclaimed that Moore’s Law is dead, but with recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence, computer chips may now be designed 10x faster than before and that in turn, is going to save Moore’s Law and the exponentially increasing processing powers of CPU’s and GPU’s.

These Chips designed by an Artificial Intelligence, are also going to help in the ongoing computer chip shortage. Faster and more quickly desgined chips are definitely a good thing and we might soon be able to see the benefits.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 What is Moore’s Law.
01:35 The announcement.
03:06 What has been accomplished.
05:16 Even more advantages.
06:32 Last Words.
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#ai #mooreslaw #cpu

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Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, macro-historian, Professor, best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus,” and one of the world’s most innovative and exciting thinkers, has a few hypotheses of his own on the future of humanity.

He examines what might happen to the world when old myths are coupled with new godlike technologies, such as artificial intelligence and genetic engineering.

Harari tackles into today’s most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future.

According to Harari, we are probably one of the last generation of homo sapiens. Within a century earth will be dominated from entities that are not even human, intelligent species that are barely biological. Harari suggests the possibility that humans are algorithms, and as such Homo sapiens may not be dominant in a universe where big data becomes a paradigm.
Robots and AI will most likely replace us in our jobs once they become intelligent enough.

Although he is hopeful that AI might help us solve many problems, such as healthcare, climate change, poverty, overpopulation etc, he cautions about the possibility of an AI arms race.

Furthermore Dr. Yuval Noah Harari suggests this technology will also allow us to upgrade our brains and nervous systems. For example, humans will be able to connect their minds directly to the internet via brain implants.

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I think intelligent tool making life is rare but there is plenty of room for those far, far in advance of us. Robert Bradbury, who thought up M-Brains, said he did not think truly hyper advanced entities would bother communicating with us. Being able to process the entire history of human thought in a few millionths of a second puts them further away from us than we are from nematodes. But then that might not be giving them credit for their intelligence and resources, as they might wish to see how well their simulations have done compared to reality.

Foresight Intelligent Cooperation Group.

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Anders Sandberg, Oxford University.

Game Theory of Cooperating with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Future Civilizations.

Anders Sandberg’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on management of low-probability high-impact risks, estimating the capabilities of future technologies, and very long-range futures. Anders is a Senior Research Fellow on the ERC UnPrEDICT Programme. Topics of particular interest include global catastrophic risk, cognitive biases, cognitive enhancement, collective intelligence, neuroethics, and public policy. He is research associate to the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He is on the advisory boards of a number of organisations and often debates science and ethics in international media. Anders has a background in computer science, neuroscience and medical engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, Sweden, for work on neural network modelling of human memory.

JOIN VISION WEEKEND 2021 (US & France, Dec 2021)

Where: Starting at the Internet Archive, a rocket company, and ship in San Francisco on Dec 4 & 5 culminating at a laboratory for the future disguised as a stunning castle outside of Paris on Dec 11 & 12.

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Even though it appears like something out of the Ironman films, the exoskeleton is finding a niche in everyday life, such as helping people lift heavy objects and supporting medical rehabilitation.

It is unclear if the technology will break out of specific use cases, as it is expensive and does not fit naturally into day-to-day life.

A technology company in China uses robotics and artificial intelligence to provide paraplegics with a feeling they may have forgotten: walking.

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World Robot Expo 2021 in Beijing: https://youtu.be/PUaQmT-lZWw.

You are on the PRO Robots channel and today we present you a digest from the Gitex 2021 robot exhibition in Dubai. Hearing, understanding and thinking like humans robotic assistants, humanoid robots, robotic surgeons, cars of the future and other innovations, as well as the main trends in Hi-Tech industry from the exhibition of technology GITEX 2021 in Dubai. Watch the video to the end and write in the comments, which technology and development impressed you more than others?

0:00 In this video.
0:23 Alfred the humanoid robotic neurologist.
1:00 iLaser.
1:28 Exoskeleton from Human In Motion.
1:40 Alba robotic chair.
1:51 RobotoGym.
2:00 Robot assistants from Neura Robotics.
3:05 Alex, a humanoid robot.
3:20 Roboy humanoid robot.
3:38 Mission Critical 5-G
4:05 Unmanned flying car on the Etisalat platform.
4:23 Mercedes-Benz Vision Avtr.
5:24 Haptx Glove with 133
5:44 Robotic Hands.
6:01 Tactile robotic arms from Shadow Robotics.
6:15 Delivery robotics.
6:40 Robodogs.
6:50 Pepper robots.
7:09 New AutoML platform.
7:27 Intelligent retail solutions.

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