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…