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This week, Basil is back, two AI robots fall in love over human demise, Flippy is evolving fast, a FDA says no baby blood for health, and a new neural communication method means everything is weird. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of FEB 7-13 YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-young-blood-parabiosis-20190219-story.html Privacy and security risks with genetic tests like 23andMe, Ancestry - Business Insider FDA officially warns against buying young blood - The Verge China's Xinhua launches world's first AI female news anchor — Quartz AI fake face website launched - BBC News FLIPPY’S FAM! Flippy is becoming self aware...self image vs task https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1087888/artificial-intelligence-self-aware-robot-arm-ai-columbia-lipson TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction?CMP=share_btn_tw AI creates cats that don't - and probably shouldn't - exist | Newshub Homenum Revelio! AI will destroy sperm donor anonymity DARPA Taps AI to Link Troops and Military Machines via Their Brain - The Merkle Hash AI wrote this story - Axios Sensors and Machine Learning Are Giving Robots a Sixth Sense Scientists Developed an AI So Advanced They Say It's Too Dangerous to Release CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! YouTube Unleashed a Conspiracy Theory Boom. Can It Be Contained? - The New York Times QAnon Returned, But Even His Supporters No Longer Are Interested BECAUSE SCIENCE! https://www.sciencealert.com/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECNOCHALYPSE With a Single 10-Word Tweet, Elon Musk Just Made a Stunning Announcement About How He Spends His Time | Inc.com Mark Zuckerberg not warned about worst crisis in Facebook's history - Business Insider FASHION! Sperm were the hot trend at London Fashion Week BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM A new CRISPR/Cas9 therapy can suppress aging Gene editing still has a few bugs in the system | Ars Technica Want a Happy Marriage? You May Want to Review Your Partner's Genetics First | Inverse CRYPTOCURRENCY AND B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN! Elon Musk says Tesla won't be getting involved with cryptocurrency SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-personal-data-collection/ Google says Nest microphone was 'never supposed to be a secret' - Business Insider Amazon Reportedly Has Lord of the Rings Writers in a Locked Office With a Guard and Fingerprint Scanner
On this episode, Basil is sick, China has a Flippy army restaurant, Norcal has a new Flippy burger joint, AI decodes rat speech with DeepSqueak, Trump signs AI EO, AI discovers hybrid in human genome, and Russia plans to exit the regular Internet for their own. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of FEB 7-13 YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! AncestryDNA genetic test review ancestry update - Business Insider FLIPPY’S FAM! Robot-made coffee, burgers in SF: on automation and jobs TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! Can AI love? Two robots just fell in love over talk of humanity’s demise | Verdict Artificial intelligence used to decode rodent chitchat - Science Focus - BBC Focus Magazine Monkeys With Superpower Eyes Could Help Cure Color Blindness | WIRED What Games Are Humans Still Better at Than AI? AI gets carded, China and US agree on robot wars, Amazon claims Rekognition is just fine BBC - Future - The robot that learned how to skate on ice They Asked if People Would Rather Kill a Human or a Sentient Robot China is unleashing killer robots and stealth drones that carry out targeted airstrikes without a human pressing the fire button DARPA wants smart bandages for wounded warriors | TechCrunch Robots and virtual reality are the future of sex | The Independent Baidu made a smart cat shelter that uses AI to tell cats and dogs apart - The Verge IBM’s AI competed against a human in a debate. The results are telling. - Vox Google and Microsoft Warn That AI May Do Dumb Things | WIRED Trump Signs Executive Order Promoting Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times This art has been created by AI. Will collectors want it? - Art & Culture - The Jakarta Post Meet Ai-Da, the world's first humanoid robot portrait artist | TechRadar Europe must avoid 'over-hasty' regulation on AI or risk missing out on economic benefits “Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data | Ars Technica CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! QAnon Finally Returns. What's Next For His Rowdy Followers? Why so many people believe conspiracy theories - BBC News BECAUSE SCIENCE! US Geologist REVEALS How Fast-Shifting North Magnetic Pole Will Affect Humanity Earth's magnetic shield booms like a drum when hit by impulses THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECNOCHALYPSE Bill Gates Gets Why People Are Doubting Billionaires—And He Has A Defense (Even For Mark Zuckerberg) SpaceX: Elon Musk Reveals Future Price Plan for a Return Ticket to Mars | Inverse Remember When Jeff Bezos Told Peter Thiel To 'Develop a Thick Skin'? Bill and Melinda Gates letter on at-home DNA tests like 23andMe - Business Insider SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs NASA to find aliens 'IN YEARS': Shock study reveals countdown to alien discovery Bible ALIEN SHOCK: Ancient ‘religious remains’ fuel extraterrestrial claim Tell RoboCallers you were abducted by aliens BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Gene Editing Tools Like CRISPR May Help Us Cure Herpes One Day UC Berkeley Team to Be Awarded CRISPR Patent | The Scientist Magazine® The Genetic Case for Monogamy | Psychology Today The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown 'Ghost' Ancestor in The Human Genome CRYPTOCURRENCY AND B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN! Software Giant Oracle Expands Its Enterprise Blockchain Platform SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Is Now a Company Nemesis Google, Facebook, Apple news should be regulated: UK government report Here's What Amazon's Eero Acquisition Means
This week, the Robot Take Over is REAL! We talk about the robots in the Superbowl, mind controlled robots, blockchain AI robot, the swarm robots, robot reporters and MORE! Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of Jan 29 - Feb 5 YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! This Genetic Testing Company Just Gave FBI Access to Its DNA Data FLIPPY’S FAM! Soon you'll be able to lose to this Jenga-playing robot New Self-Aware Robotic Arm Can Recognize and Repair Itself TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! San Antonio's dancing robots land 'America's Got Talent' shine for upcoming season Kylie Jenner Had Her Makeup Done by AI Robots for the Cover of 'Dazed Beauty' Here’s a Roundup of All the Super Bowl Ads About Robots and AI Creepy-Crawly Machine May be the World's Tiniest Four-Legged Robot | Digital Trends You Can Now Buy Sophia the Robot’s “Little Sister” Mind-controlled robot lets you weld metal without using your hands | New Scientist Robots’ lead role in Super Bowl ads hint at tech anxieties | Fox News The Rise of the Robot Reporter - The New York Times Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times New Star Trek-like 'Replicator' Prints 3D Objects With Light - ExtremeTech An autonomous robot swarm has self-organized by acting like natural cells - MIT Technology Review CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! Judge Implicates Rothschild Family Partners In Elitist Sex Cult – Collective Evolution Conspiracy theorist David Icke should be banned from Australia, minister told | News | The Guardian Fire at 'pizzagate' shop reignites conspiracy theorists who find a home on Facebook THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECNOCHALYPSE Forget the Super Bowl, SpaceX just fired its Mars rocket engine | Ars Technica This Elon Musk interview reveals if he prefers Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison - Big Think Tesla bought Maxwell Technologies for $218 million, but not for its ultracapacitors — Quartz Elon Musk is now proud owner of Stankmemes.com SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs Harvard prof doesn't back down from claims that alien spacecraft may be zipping past Jupiter orbit BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Scientists find new and smaller CRISPR gene editor: CasX CRYPTOCURRENCY AND B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN! $190 million gone forever? Crypto boss dies with passwords needed to unlock customer accounts | 5 Aspects of City Life Set to be Changed by Blockchain-powered Robots | CryptoGlobe SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Google hired microworkers to train its controversial Project Maven AI - The Verge Social media and mental health: UK proposes action - CNN BECAUSE SCIENCE! The magnetic field near the Arctic is acting weird - The Verge Scientists Just Defied Chemistry Basics by Flipping 'Left-Handed' Molecules With Light