Sérgio Figueiredo JrTechnology Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air The Wall Street Journal. - Christopher MimsA world covered in sensors that don’t require batteries is near at hand The idea of a perpetual machine—one that, once set in motion, never stops—is preposterous. The energy it needs must come from somewhere....
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Entire human chess knowledge learned and surpassed by DeepMind's AlphaZero in four hours The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton and Leon WatsonHundreds of years of chess knowledge was learned and then surpassed by Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence algorithm in just four hours, it has emerged. The astonishing programme AlphaZero quickly...
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain MIT Technology Review - alley AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually …
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Derek ThompsonA snake-robot designer, a balloon scientist, a liquid-crystals technologist, an extradimensional physicist, a psychology geek, an electronic-materials wrangler, and a journalist walk into a room. The turns...
Sérgio Figueiredo Jr How To Make 500,000 Cars Without Humans Forbes - Jon MarkmanElon Musk is obsessed with speed. From rockets to hyperloops to electric cars, fast is kind of his thing. Now he wants to apply the same aesthetic to manufacturing. Critics argue it’s another pipe dream,...
