How Artificial Intelligence Saved a Man’s Life and Other Future Tech on 9-August-2016
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How Artificial
Intelligence Saved a Man’s Life
Artificial intelligence is gaining momentum every day, with
companies incorporating the technology into software systems for everyday use.
Don’t believe us? Read about the law
firm that hired an artificially intelligent lawyer to power through legal
research.
Joshua Neally from Springfield, Missouri, suffered a pulmonary
embolism while driving his Tesla Model X to his daughter’s birthday. The event,
a fatal blood vessel blockage, might’ve ended his life had it not been for the already-activated
Autopilot system on his self-driving Tesla Model X. The car drove Neally nearly
32 km straight to the hospital, where Neally drove the last few blocks to check
himself in.
"I'm very thankful I had it for this experience. If
something like that happens where I become unconscious or incapacitated while
I'm driving, I'm not going to cross over the interstate and slam into somebody
or slam into one of the big rock walls. It's not going to be perfect, there's
no technology that’s perfect, but I think the measure is that it's better and
safer," he says.
Hyperloop One Might
Build Underwater Hyperloop for Cargo Transport
Elon Musk really stirred up the tech industry with his
Hyperloop concept, something which soon became a reality just recently. Hyperloop
One, a Los Angeles-based started looking to become the first pioneers of the
concept, has just revealed its plans to build an underwater Hyperloop to
transport cargo, and even, people!
"Long Beach, near where I live, is a beautiful
California coastline that is basically covered with ports or cargo containers
and ships. Imagine if you could regain all of that coastline for parks and
homes and beaches by taking the port and putting the port 10 miles off shore,"
said Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X-Prize Foundation and Hyperloop One board
member.
"We've been talking to a lot of the port authorities
around the world about re-engineering their ports in this kind of fashion. Some
of the more interesting proposals that have come in have been [about] going
between Norway and Sweden - going through the water ways there," he added.
NIH to Restart Human-Animal
Chimera Research
With scientists & researchers clearly not happy with the
National Institute of Health (NIH) imposing a moratorium on the funding for human-animal
chimera research & human stem cell research, the NIH posted a new policy
that proposed various changes to the existing NIG guidelines for chimera
research.
“At the end of the day, we want to make sure this research
progresses because it’s very important to our understanding of disease. It’s
important to our mission to improve human health. But we also want to make sure
there’s an extra set of eyes on these projects because they do have this
ethical set of concerns associated with them,” said Carrie Wolinetz, Associate
Director of Science Policy at NIH.
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