The World Egg
New worlds, new humanity

Researchers have created an AI that, allegedly, has the cognitive ability of a human child at four years. I’m not convinced; the clips I’ve watched on YouTube don’t prove much to me. Anyway, it operates in Second Life, where it uses (at present) a robot avatar. No reason why it shouldn’t use a ‘human’ avatar, though, thus demonstrating that as reality and augmented reality blur with the Metaverse, we really won’t know who - or what - we’re talking to….

Salamanders can do it, zebrafish can do it, why can’t we? Yes, back to the topic of tissue regeneration - it seems that, for zebrafish at least, the solution lies in their microRNA (something I’m not exactly au fait with,but that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone!). Still, it’s another step towards limb and organ regeneration in humans…

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a smart video goggle system that records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video, and creates an easily searchable database of the recorded footage

Found via Slashdot, where some of the comments relating this to past cyberpunk novels are amusing.

Of course, it isn’t all funny; this would seem to bring universal, mobile, surveillance a step closer.

China’s People.com claims that the Tianjin Angsai Cell and Genome Project Company “has achieved unprecedented capacity to develop large-scale, lifesaving stem cell production with stocks of umbilical cord stem cells hitting nearly 5,000 samples“. It seems this is just a reprint from the official Xinhua news agency, but if it’s