AlphaZero’s ‘alien’ superhuman-level program masters chess in 24 hours with no domain knowledge
Like a robot building a Ferrari from thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine
3D-printing biocompatible living bacteria
Applications include skin transplants and nanofilters that break down toxic substances
Why (most) future robots won’t look like robots
Plus: soft robots get superpowers (equivalent to a duck lifting a car)
Space dust may transport life between worlds
A hypervelocity bioparticle from Earth could have reached identified potential habitable planets
Take a fantastic 3D voyage through the brain with immersive VR system
Plus a "journey to the center of the cell" with 360 VR movies
Disturbing video depicts near-future ubiquitous lethal autonomous weapons
The technology described in the film already exists, says UC Berkeley AI researcher Stuart Russell
