An animated video posted this week has a voice-over that sounds like a late-night TV advert, however the pitch is straight out of the far future. The arms of an octopus-like robotic surgeon swirl, swiftly eradicating the head of a dying man and putting it onto a younger, wholesome physique.
This is BrainBridge, the animated video claims—“the world’s first revolutionary idea for a head transplant machine, which makes use of state-of-the-art robotics and synthetic intelligence to conduct full head and face transplantation.”
BrainBridge just isn’t an actual firm—it’s not included anyplace. Yet it’s not merely a provocative murals. This video is healthier understood as the primary public billboard for a massively controversial scheme to defeat demise that’s just lately been gaining consideration amongst some life-extension proponents and entrepreneurs. Read the total story.
—Antonio Regalado
Noise-canceling headphones use AI to let a single voice via
Modern life is noisy. If you don’t prefer it, noise-canceling headphones can cut back the sounds in your surroundings. But they muffle sounds indiscriminately, so you’ll be able to simply find yourself lacking one thing you really wish to hear.
A brand new prototype AI system for such headphones goals to unravel this. Called Target Speech Hearing, the system offers customers the flexibility to pick out an individual whose voice will stay audible even when all different sounds are canceled out.
