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Meet Benjamin Choi, a 17-year-old who built a $300 mind-controlled prosthetic arm that reads brainwaves through non-invasive electrodes

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com1 month ago010 mins

Each one of us spent the pandemic doing something that we normally wouldn’t have the time to. While some picked up numerous indoor hobbies, others studied hard enough to change career pathways. Benjamin Choi, a then 17-year-old kid, put his spare time during the phase to design an accessible device that does not require brain…

MIT AI researcher warns replacing Gen Z with automation could be a billion-dollar mistake

MIT AI researcher warns replacing Gen Z with automation could be making a billion-dollar mistake | World News

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com3 months ago07 mins

Companies racing to replace entry-level employees with artificial intelligence may be saving money in the short term, but they could be creating a much bigger problem for the future, according to an MIT research scientist. Andrew McAfee, who co-leads the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, has warned that automating away junior…

Meet Marvin Minsky: MIT professor who predicted today’s Anthropic-style multi-agent AI nearly 40 years ago and became the founding father of artificial intelligence | World News

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com3 months ago011 mins

Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works. In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one all-powerful brain but the result…