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  • McDonald's Is Making a Plant-Based Burger; You Can Try It in 2021

    18 NOV 2020 · McDonald's Is Making a Plant-Based Burger; You Can Try It in 2021 . Fast-food chains have been doing what they can in recent years to health-ify their menus. For better or worse, burgers, fries, fried chicken, roast beef sandwiches, and the like will never go out of st...
    3m 57s
  • There Could Be 300 Million (or More) Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy

    8 NOV 2020 · There Could Be 300 Million (or More) Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy . The first planets discovered outside our solar system were strange, unfamiliar worlds. These were giants like Jupiter, hotter than Venus, tearing around their suns inside the orbit of Mercury. Astronom...
    6m 4s
  • Flippy the Fast Food Robot Just Went Commercial, and It's Selling Like Crazy

    6 NOV 2020 · Flippy the Fast Food Robot Just Went Commercial, and It's Selling Like Crazy . No doubt about it, the pandemic has changed the way we eat. Never before have so many people who hated cooking been forced to learn how to prepare a basic meal for themselves. With sit-down restaurants...
    4m 29s
  • This Baby Horse Was Cloned Using DNA That Was Frozen for 40 Years

    5 NOV 2020 · This Baby Horse Was Cloned Using DNA That Was Frozen for 40 Years . When Dolly the sheep was born in 1996, she instantly achieved worldwide fame for being the first-ever animal to be cloned from an adult cell. Since then, she hasn’t had many competitors for the title o...
    4m 36s
  • 3.2 Billion Images and 720,000 Hours of Video Are Shared Online Daily. Can You Sort Real from Fake?

    4 NOV 2020 · 3.2 Billion Images and 720,000 Hours of Video Are Shared Online Daily. Can You Sort Real from Fake? . Twitter over the weekend “tagged” as manipulated a video showing US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden supposedly forgetting which state he’s in while addressing a crowd. Biden’s “hello Minnes...
    8m 28s
  • OpenAI's GPT-3 Wrote This Short Film, and It's Strange and Fascinating

    23 OCT 2020 · OpenAI's GPT-3 Wrote This Short Film, and It's Strange and Fascinating . OpenAI’s text generating AI has gotten a lot of buzz since its release in June. It’s been used to post comments on Reddit, write a poem roasting Elon Musk, and even write an entire article in The Guard...
    3m 53s
  • A New Method Can Train AI Using Almost No Data

    22 OCT 2020 · A New Method Can Train AI Using Almost No Data . AI is continuously taking on new challenges, from detecting deepfakes (which, incidentally, are also made using AI) to winning at poker to giving synthetic biology experiments a boost. These impressive...
    5m 53s
  • Hey Google ... What Movie Should I Watch Today? How AI Can Affect Our Decisions

    21 OCT 2020 · Hey Google ... What Movie Should I Watch Today? How AI Can Affect Our Decisions . Have you ever used Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, or Amazon Alexa to make decisions for you? Perhaps you asked it what new movies have good reviews, or to recommend a cool restaurant in your neighborh...
    6m 41s
  • Can We Trust AI Doctors? Google Health and Academics Battle It Out

    20 OCT 2020 · Can We Trust AI Doctors? Google Health and Academics Battle It Out . Machine learning is taking medical diagnosis by storm. From eye disease, breast and other cancers, to more amorphous neurological disorders, AI is routinely matching physician performance, if not beati...
    8m 41s
  • Scientists Just Achieved Room Temperature Superconductivity for the First Time

    19 OCT 2020 · Scientists Just Achieved Room Temperature Superconductivity for the First Time . Superconductivity could be the key to groundbreaking new technologies in energy, computing, and transportation, but so far it only occurs in materials chilled close to absolute zero. Now researchers ha...
    3m 48s

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Feed descriptionA constant stream of SingularityHub's high-quality articles, read to you via an AI system. We chronicle technological progress by highlighting the breakthroughs, players, and issues shaping the future as well as supporting a global community of smart, passionate, action-oriented people who want to change the world.
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