Emerging Technology From the arXiv - MIT Technology Review
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week.Scalability in Neural Control of Musculoskeletal Robots
When DARPA ran a competition to find Twitter bots designed to influence online debates, it inspired a new generation of anti-bot strategies.One of the more disturbing phenomena on Twitter is the proliferation of bots that generate tweets automatically in an attempt to spread spam, to make money illicitly through click fraud, and, most worryingly, to...
Physicists have worked out how to measure the magnetic fields generated by single nerves from outside the body and at room temperature.Biologists have known that nerves produce and respond to electrical signals since the 18th century, when Luigi Galvani discovered that the muscles in a frog’s leg twitch when stimulated by a spark.
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week.Deep Neural Networks predict Hierarchical Spatio-temporal Cortical Dynamics of Human Visual Object Recognition
Nobody knew how to identify people’s emotional states by looking at their brain waves. Then a machine learning algorithm stepped in. When it comes to communication, humans are hugely sensitive to each other’s emotional states. Indeed, most people expect their emotional state to be taken into account by their correspondents. And when this happens, communication...
Political speeches are often written for politicians by trusted aides and confidantes. Could an AI algorithm do as well? “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” —John F. Kennedy, 1961
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