Zvonimir Fras

robotics

⚔️ Enabling Robot Wars ⋆ 🤖 AI of the week ⋆ 📋 When people copy you

Swarms of robots fighting in the sky, on the ground, and underwater. AI news by the shovel. A good reason to ignore copycats...

space

🌕 About the Moon landing this week 🚀 ⋆ AI of the week ⋆ 🤑 Economy simplified

Chandrayaan-3 lands on the Moon's south pole, a bunch of AI updates this week, and the economy simplification, but in a fun way.

robotics

👀 World’s most powerful general-purpose humanoid? ⋆ 🎹 Radical piano redesign ⋆ 🤓 Ambition vs entitlement

Humanoid robots keep popping up everywhere. AI keeps getting better to power that hardware. And here I am, talking about a piano design, ambition, and entitlement.

music

🎸 Concert Magic Unveiled ⋆ AI of the week ⋆ Value of your attention

Bracelets that transform concerts into magic, explore the latest AI advancements, and learn the value of focusing your attention

health

👀 Can this be the cure for cancer? ⋆ 🤖 AI of the week ⋆ 🛰️ Voyager 2's Cosmic Comeback

New drug called AOH1996 can block a protein that helps cancer cells grow and repair their DNA. Using the Deep Space Network, a globe-spanning network of radio antennas, NASA sent a command on August 4th to redirect Voyager 2's antenna toward Earth.‌

science

It's probably nothing... ⚛️ Revolutionary Science ⋆ 🎨 AI Artistry and ⋆ 🏋️ the Sweetness of Struggle

This might be the most important discovery of our lifetimes! 🤯 OpenAI removed its safety filters to test the model’s full potential. If you seek out and do difficult, challenging things, and struggle through them, your life is going to feel longer and more fulfilling in retrospect.

AI

As if regular AI wasn't enough... ⋆ 🤖 This week in AI ⋆ 🏝️ The unseen costs of pursuing desires

We tricked a rock into thinking by putting lightning inside it. AI updates of the week. You can't do everything you want. Shorten the list down.

longevity

Yes, I'm skeptical too - A pill 💊 to reverse aging? ⋆ This week in AI 🤖 ⋆ Your beliefs shape your world 🌏

Life is information. When corrupted, we age & die. It's been a week of new beginnings, increased commitment, and show of progress. Beliefs are placebos.

transportation

Has the time come? First flying ✈️ car 🚗 gets FAA approval for testing ⋆ 👪 People like you more than you think ⋆ 🧙‍♀️ Follow your curiosity

Not your uncle's flying car. Marty's got a thing or two to look forward to. Research that tells you people like you more than you think. Curiosity is great, use it as compas.

personal

Ok, I'll share, this was my week

Had a crazy week, here's the deetz.

placebo

🎨 Spice up your creativity - with a placebo ⋆ 🌎 Things are getting hot in here ⋆ 🧬 Why live longer

You already know placebos work. So let's put them to good use. North Atlantic Ocean is 0.7°C warmer than ever on this date.

productivity

👾 Secret destroyer of productivity ⋆ 🦾 The possible dark side of AI ⋆ 🧭 Passion vs values

It affects people’s productivity and cognitive function. These are the skills you need to manage tasks, like paying attention and remembering things. AI quotes to keep you up at night.

VR

What spatial computing era will look like ⋆ This week in AI ⋆ Rebooting Productivity - Slow vs Fast

It's stunning, that this will be old one day. AI advancement didn't pause for Apple's revolution in computing. We basically just throw an unlimited amount of work at individuals and say it's up to you to self-regulate.

AI

👽 The Alien at the Convention: The Power of Weak Ties ⋆ ⌛ The Countdown to a New Era ⋆ 🚀 Trading Small Troubles for Big Wins

What do aliens have to do with your acquaintances and entrepreneurship? How to live in an era of extreme uncertainty? Why do you need to let small bad things happen to get huge good things done?

brain implant

👣 Brain-spine implant helps a man walk again ⋆ 🪄 Juicing gadgets outa thin air ⋆ 🧩 The AI shift

At some point, you might want to integrate with computers to stay competitive. Or whatever other reason... The tech is coming along. There’s a new device that pulls electricity straight from the air. The world has already changed beyond recognition.

AI

🤖 ⚠️ This is what AI worries are really about ⋆ 🚗 Full self-driving cars are here ⋆ 🚀 Attempting impossible

It's a perfect summary of why people are worried about advanced AI so much. Which robotaxi to hitch a ride in? Some things are impossible until they're not.

interesting

🏝️ Could this help solve climate change? ⋆ This is 🍌🍌!! ⋆ 🧙‍♂️ Nugget of wisdom

Flooding areas like the Qattara Depression could help mitigate climate change, while banana candy tastes different because it mimics an extinct banana variety. What? Yes. Read for more.

AI

🧠 This AI can read your mind (Yes, for real) ⋆ 🤖 AI Updates of the week ⋆ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 You're your own best friend

No, you can't download and use it. Yet. It requires scanning you in the fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine and training the system on your brain.

heart

🫀 Beating heart transplant 🤯 ⋆ 🤖 AI updates of the week ⋆ 🏀Wisdom from the court

As if transplanting a heart 🫀 isn't hard enough, Stanford Medicine surgeons did it while it was still beating 🤯 Couldn't pick a favorite AI update of the week, so here we are.

AI

🎨 VisualGPT ⋆ 🍩 This is your brain on junk food, and you can fix it ⋆ 🦀 What you can learn about growth from crabs

Dive into the world of VisualGPT, understand how junk food affects your brain, and learn growth lessons from crabs

AI

🎵 AI generated song goes viral (LISTEN HERE) ⋆ 🎮 Gaming & generative AI Agents

The song is called Heart on My Sleeve and it sounds like a real collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd. Researchers from Stanford and Google created a Sims-like sandbox environment, with 25 AI agents.

AI

How AI shields us from solar 🌞storm havoc ⋆ 🤖 Step closer to AI uprising

There's so much talk about large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, and text-to-image AI like Midjourney and stable diffusion, that you can forget there are other ones. Today we change that. But we also don't forget GPT, and it raps.

growth

🤫 My Secret to Achieving Big Goals ⋆ 🤖 AI Updates Of The Week ⋆ 🤔 Following your own curiosity

It consists of 3 crucial elements in a 4 step process. You'd be surprised how much you're capable of when you compound your efforts. A bunch happened with AI.

future

🎨 Art tools of the future today 🧠 Meaty cyberpunk future 🤖

Adobe joins the generative AI race. And it's glorious. Scientists got tired of the regular artificial intelligence and put their resources together to build a living computer with 80 000 mouse brain cells. 1964: ARTHUR C CLARKE predicts the future.

AI

💬 GPT-4 ⋆ 🧙 Midjourney v5 ⋆ What matters in the long run

It was a packed decade in AI this week...