SingularityU Warsaw Chapter

12/10/2021

In the last few months, robots have learned some pretty cool new skills, including performing a sweet coordinated dance routine and making pizzas from start to finish. Now there’s another accomplishment to add to the list: a bipedal robot named Cassie just ran a 5K.

Made by Agility Robotics, which was spun out of Oregon State University, Cassie was developed using a $1 million grant from DARPA. The robot is basically a pair of mechanical legs with a battery pack sitting on top. Thanks to

The robot covered the whole distance, a course circling around the university campus, on a single battery charge in just over 53 minutes.

28/09/2021

One of the biggest barriers standing in the way of useful quantum computers is how error-prone today’s devices are. Now, Google has provided an experimental demonstration of how to correct this problem and scale it up for much larger devices.

The power of quantum computers comes from their ability to manipulate exotic quantum states, but these states are very fragile and easily perturbed by sources of noise, like heat or electromagnetic fields. This can introduce errors into calculations, and it’s widely accepted that error correction will need to be built into these devices before they’re able to carry out any serious work.

For the first time, they demonstrated that adding more qubits resulted in an exponential increase in the ability to suppress errors.

16/09/2021

Do people still have important roles to play in our technology-driven future? What separates companies that can put cutting-edge technologies to use from those that fail or stagnate? In this informative, inspirational, wide-ranging and practical talk during Masters&Robots Dr. McAfee will address these questions. He'll show how minds and machines can best come together, how companies are using artificial intelligence to improve innovation, ex*****on, and customer service, and why in the future we'll need people more than ever before. Drawing on cutting-edge science and real-world examples, he'll show the great promise of technological progress, and how we've hardly yet begun to realize its benefits.
Join us on September 21-22!
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15/09/2021

How to recognize the need for change and embrace it during difficult times? How to build a sense of self-worth and empower our ability to determine own choices? How to be steadfast in influencing on social change for themselves and others? And finally how to raise children to be geniuses and live a happier, healthier, and fun-filled life? There is only one person who can answer these questions. For the very first time in Poland we will talk with Maye Musk – the world's most famous innovator’s mother and woman with an extraordinary personal and professional history, who continues to be an inspiration to many generations.
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14/09/2021

Companies cannot remain stagnant. They must evolve or they will die.
Thus are you interested how a range of powerful technologies are transforming the world and drive a period of significant disruption and/or opportunity depending on the company’s as well as our mindset?
At Masters&Robots Peter Diamandis, recently named by Fortune Magazine one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, will explains the rapid growth of key exponential technologies, including Spatial Web and Web 3.0 and how it will transform every aspect of our lives, from retail and advertising, to work and education, to entertainment and social interaction.
Peter will also discuss the ‘Space Race’ that is currently happening: individuals concentrating massive wealth, the explosion of material sciences, and how the field of artificial intelligence has taken simulation to the next level.
Have you ever thought how would Longevity and age reversal change your life? Your plans? How much impact you could create in the world? At his keynote Diamandis will elaborate on the fact that we are edging closer toward a dramatically extended health span where 100 years-old can become the new 60.
Diamandis will also do a deep dive into Quantum computing - imagine a computer that could crack the most sophisticated network in a mere few seconds. Perfectly model complex weather and biological systems. What could you do with such computational power? Invent new drugs? Create simulations of multiple universes? What about optimizing your investment portfolio?
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09/09/2021

The most impactful conference is fast approaching! Meet the Masters & Robots speaker:
Esra'a Al Shafei is a Bahraini human rights activist, an outspoken defender of free speech, and founder of Majal.org, a network of digital platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices. Together with her team, they build digital projects that creatively facilitate the struggle for social justice in the Middle East and North Africa.

Najbardziej inspirująca konferencja zbliża się wielkimi krokami! Poznajcie kolejną prelegentkę Masters&Robots:
Esra'a Al Shafei jest bahrajską działaczką na rzecz praw człowieka, obrończynią wolności słowa i założycielką Majal.org, sieci platform cyfrowych, które wzmacniają niedostatecznie słyszane i marginalizowane głosy. Wraz z jej zespołem budują projekty cyfrowe, które ułatwiają walkę o sprawiedliwość społeczną na Bliskim Wschodzie i w Afryce Północnej.

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07/09/2021

Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth book sleeve, and smell that familiar book smell as you flick through the pages. To you, the book is made up of a range of sensory appearances.

But you also expect the book has its own independent existence behind those appearances. So when you put the book down on the coffee table and walk into the kitchen, or leave your house to go to work, you expect the book still looks, feels, and smells just as it did when you were holding it.

Physicist Carlo Rovelli argues the world is a web of interrelations, and objects do not have their own individual existence independent from other objects.

02/09/2021

Art in the era of artificial intelligence is fascinating. Constantly changing interactive works provide amazing aesthetic experiences. During Masters & Robots we will learn more about this type of art - one of the speakers is Refik Anadol - Media Artist, Director and Pioneer in The Aesthetics of Machine Intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. He analyzes the challenges, and the possibilities, that ubiquitous computing has imposed on humanity, and what it means to be a human in the age of AI.

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Sztuka w dobie sztucznej inteligencji to fascynujące zagadnienie. Ciągle zmieniające się interaktywne prace zapewniają niesamowite doświadczenia estetyczne. W czasie Masters&Robots będziemy mogli bliżej spotkać się z tym rodzajem sztuki - jednym z mówców jest Refik Anadol, artysta, reżyser i pionier w dziedzinie estetyki inteligencji maszynowej. Jego dorobek artystyczny lokuje kreatywność w punkcie styku bytów fizycznych i cyfrowych. Artysta analizuje wyzwania i możliwości, jakie wszechobecna cyfryzacja narzuciła ludzkości i co to znaczy być człowiekiem w erze sztucznej inteligencji.

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31/08/2021

Imagine if you could power your kettle using the energy generated from the vegetable cuttings quietly breaking down in your kitchen’s compost bin. That reality might not be so far off with the growth of biogas technology.

Biogas is a green alternative to fossil fuels that not only helps to reduce toxic emissions but also provides cheap, clean energy. It’s made up of a mixture of methane, carbon dioxide and a little hydrogen sulfide and water v***r, all of which is produced by microbes that live on organic raw material within an airtight digester container.

The efficiency of the system depends on the size and insulation capability of the digester, as well as the quantity of methane produced from the “feedstock,” which can be anything from carrot leaves and onion peels to residue from gardening.

Imagine if you could power your kettle using the energy generated from the vegetable cuttings quietly breaking down in your kitchen’s compost bin. That reality might not be so far off with the growth of biogas technology. Biogas is a green alternative to fossil fuels that not only helps to reduce ...

26/08/2021

Masters & Robots conference will take place in two months, so we are happy to present another expert who will give her speech on the virtual stage, dr. Poppy Crum!

Expert in Technology-Driven Innovation & Human Evolution, Stanford University Adjunct Professor, Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories, Neuroscientist, and Technologist.
She is a visionary futurist and neuroscientist whose work sits at the intersection of technology advancement and human evolution. Her presentations focus on how personalized technology will continue to shape us as humans.

https://mastersandrobots.tech/en/speakers/poppy-crum
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Konferencja Masters&Robots odbędzie się już za dwa miesiące, dlatego z przyjemnością przedstawiamy kolejną ekspertkę, która wystąpi na wirtualnej scenie, dr Poppy Crum!

Ekspertka w dziedzinie innowacji opartych na technologii i ewolucji człowieka, adiunkt na Uniwersytecie Stanforda, główna naukowczyni w Dolby Laboratories, neurobiolożka i technolożka.
To wizjonerska futurystka i neurobiolożka, której praca znajduje się na przecięciu postępu technologicznego i ewolucji człowieka. Jej prezentacje skupiają się na tym, jak spersonalizowana technologia będzie nadal kształtować nas jako ludzi.

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24/08/2021

It’s the dog days of summer. You bite down on a plump, chilled orange. Citrus juice explodes in your mouth in a refreshing, tingling burst. Ahh. And congratulations—you’ve just been vaccinated for the latest virus.
That’s one of the goals of molecular farming, a vision to have plants synthesize medications and vaccines. Using genetic engineering and synthetic biology, scientists can introduce brand new biochemical pathways into plant cells—or even whole plants—essentially turning them into single-use bioreactors.

Using genetic engineering and synthetic biology, we can introduce new biochemical pathways into plant cells, turning them into single-use bioreactors.

19/08/2021

Meet Maye Musk, the next Masters&Robots’ speaker! She is a role model, trend maker and rule changer with a fascinating family. Maye is a respected dietitian who gives talks all over the world about health, nutrition, business and aging. Her book, A Woman Makes A Plan, is an international best-seller, and in over 70 countries with more to come. Now in her 70s, she is the oldest Covergirl who travels the world doing high-fashion campaigns.

Meet Maye Musk, the next Masters&Robots’ speaker! She is a role model, trend maker and rule changer with a fascinating family. Maye is a respected dietitian who gives talks all over the world about health, nutrition, business and aging. Her book, A Woman Makes A Plan, is an international best-seller, and in over 70 countries with more to come. Now in her 70s, she is the oldest Covergirl who travels the world doing high-fashion campaigns.

🤖 Get your ticket: http://mastersandrobots.tech/

Poznajcie Maye Musk, prelegentkę Masters & Robots! Wraz ze swoją fascynującą rodziną jest role model, kreuje trendy i zmienia zasady. Maye to uznana dietetyczka, która na całym świecie wygłasza przemówienia na temat zdrowia, odżywiania, biznesu i starzenia się. Jej książka, A Woman Makes A Plan, została międzynarodowym bestsellerem wydanym w ponad 70 krajach, a wkrótce pojawi się także w kolejnych. Obecnie Maye ma 70 lat i jest najstarszą Covergirl, która podróżuje po świecie, biorąc udział w kampaniach modowych.

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Fot. Susan Bowlus