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KEEPING UP. “At the World Government Summit in Dubai in February, Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said that people would need to become cyborgs to be relevant in an artificial intelligence age. He said that a “merger of biological intelligence and machine intelligence” would be necessary to ensure we stay economically valuable.” https://lnkd.in/dXa8J2R View in LinkedIn

ELION MUSK AI DONATION. "Just days after joining hundreds of scientists in an open letter warning about the potential dangers of sophisticated artificial intelligence, Elon Musk donated $10 million towards a global research program to ensure AI remains beneficial to humanity." https://lnkd.in/dNjihef View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE explores an interesting article by Günther Witzany on DNA as a habitat for retroviruses, and its evolutionary consequences, titled Pragmatic turn in biology: From biological molecules to genetic content operators. Witzany, a philosopher, collaborated with virologist Luis Villarreal; in the words of Villarreal: “One of the most fundamental concepts to emerge for me in the last five years has come from talking to the philosopher Günther Witzany about the history of science and language.“ https://lnkd.in/dp4diBc View in LinkedIn

ADVANTAGEOUS ERRORS. “Mutations are replication errors with selective advantage, i.e., instabilities in this system represent irreversible thermodynamic processes.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

CONTEST OF THE GODS. "We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields...Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess would be best." (A.M. Turing, 1950). http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.php View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION-FUNCTION LOOP. “Nucleic acids (information) and proteins (function) represent a closed system, because there is no function without information, and information gets meaning from function.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn