AI Gives Cops the Drop on Pyschopaths

Cops Can Tell If You’re a Psychopath by Your Head Movement Thanks to New AI

AI Gives Cops the Drop on Pyschopaths

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

In a move that should frighten no one who isn’t frightened by the notion of a state using technology to classify you as a pyschotic by merely documenting your head gestures while you walk to your car, scientists have now enable police to determine if someone is psychotic by merely tracking their head movement in a crowd and having it analyzed by artificial intelligence algorithm finder who will be able to faithfully determine that yes, indeedy do, that person is, in fact psychotic.

Ok, so they’re not quite sweeping crowds and figuring this out, yet, but they are using this device to analyze the head bobs of people being interviewed by the police at hq. The experiments have begun right here in America, in New Mexico, with a study done among prison inmates.

AI could detect signs of psychopathy based on head movements, study finds

From www.dailymail.co.uk
2021-08-10 09:17:30

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Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can detect signs of psychopathy based on head movements.

Using head tracking algorithms, experts in New Mexico found evidence that male prison inmates with higher levels of psychopathy kept their head more stationary during police interviews…..

The study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, represents an ‘important first step’ in demonstrating the feasibility of using computer vision in conjunction with psychology, the authors claim.

‘I’ve been interviewing individuals high on psychopathic traits for more than 20 years,’ study author Kent A. Kiehl, a psychology professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, told PsyPost.

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China’s Genetic Scientists Might Be Violating Human Rights of Minorities

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

China is exposing the private medical information of minority families and exposing experiments being done on these families without their consent in a series of genetic studies published in Chinese scientific peer-reviewed journals. This is what was alleged in a paper discovered in 2017 bio bioinformationist Yves Moreau. What Moreau discovered was a paper called “Human Genetics.” In this paper, Moreau discovered what seemed to be basic ethical standards violations, which led him down a rabbit hole of other such Chinese genetics reports with even more ethical and scientific issues created for reasons that don’t appear to reflect objective scientific curiousity.

Genetic papers containing data from China’s ethnic minorities draw fire |

From www.sciencemag.org
2021-08-10 05:00:00

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When Yves Moreau, a bioinformatician at KU Leuven in Belgium, noticed a 2017 paper in Human Genetics that described the “male genetic landscape of China” based on a set of almost 38,000 Y-STR sequences, he saw a red flag. Y-STR stands for Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat polymorphism, bits of repetitive DNA often used in forensic investigations. Some of the samples came from Uyghurs and other minorities in China, and Moreau was skeptical that they had given informed consent for the use of their genetic data or understood that China might use it to profile their people. In June 2020, he asked the journal’s editors to retract the “indefensible” paper.

Springer Nature, its publisher, launched an investigation that is still ongoing. So last month, Moreau stepped up the pressure: He wrote to the journal’s entire editorial board to complain about the lack of progress. For Moreau, the paper is just one of many studies, primarily in forensic genetics, that deserve scrutiny because of consent problems in China and the potential for abuse of the data. He says he has flagged about 28 papers at six journals over the past couple of years.

And his campaign is gaining traction. Eight of 25 members of the editorial board of Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, published by Wiley, recently resigned to protest the lack of progress in investigating a number of papers flagged by Moreau, as The Intercept reported last week.

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Flexodes Could Revolutionize Charging Speed of Lithium Batteries

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

More Efficient, Superfast Charging Lithium Batteries Closer To Markets

From scienceblog.com
2021-08-10 15:21:23
Texas A&M
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With the support of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Office of Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, Texas A&M University researcher Choongho Yu, professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, and entrepreneurial partner Ranga Vasudevan have successfully launched a lithium-based battery technology startup called Flexodes…..

The basis of the commercial venture is research from Yu’s laboratory on lithium-sulfur batteries. In particular, Yu’s team has patented the design of a 3D trench-wall carbon nanotube framework for the battery’s electrodes. These high-performing electrodes dramatically increase the battery’s ability to store charge.

The electrodes also discharge easily, generating large quantities of current to power up devices rapidly. The experts added that batteries built with their technology are more resistant to the formation of finger-like deposits called dendrites that cause most commercially available lithium-based batteries to overheat and rupture.

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High Speed Autonomous Drone Racers Get Better with AI Trainer

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

System trains drones to fly around obstacles at high speeds — ScienceDaily

From www.sciencedaily.com
2021-08-10 15:34:49

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If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete to see which vehicle is better trained to fly fastest through an obstacle course. But the faster drones fly, the more unstable they become, and at high speeds their aerodynamics can be too complicated to predict. Crashes, therefore, are a common and often spectacular occurrence.

But if they can be pushed to be faster and more nimble, drones could be put to use in time-critical operations beyond the race course, for instance to search for survivors in a natural disaster.

Now, aerospace engineers at MIT have devised an algorithm that helps drones find the fastest route around obstacles without crashing. The new algorithm combines simulations of a drone flying through a virtual obstacle course with data from experiments of a real drone flying through the same course in a physical space.

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Write What You Want and Have AI Convert It to Usable Code

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

From theverge.com
2021-08-10 13:24:24
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AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding.

In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. Users type English commands into the software, like “create a webpage with a menu on the side and title at the top,” and Codex translates this into code. The software is far from infallible and takes some patience to operate, but could prove invaluable in making coding faster and more accessible.

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Combine Magnets and Concrete and Get Car-Powering Roads

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Magment may one day be the road you drive on that you expect will also be a source for you to get power for your car and all the stuff you have that can be charged wirelessly. That’s the hope of this start-up company and Indiana’s Department of Transportation.

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

From singularityhub.com
2021-08-09 10:00:12
Edd Gent
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Last month, Indiana’s Department of Transport (INDOT) announced a collaboration with Purdue University and German company Magment to test out whether cement with embedded magnetized particles could provide an affordable road-charging solution.

Most wireless vehicle charging technologies rely on a process known as inductive charging, where electricity pumped into a wire coil creates a magnetic field that can induce an electric current in any other nearby wire coil. The charging coils are installed at regular intervals under the road, and cars are fitted with a receiver coil that picks up the charge.

But installing thousands of miles of copper under the road is obviously fairly costly. Magment’s solution is to instead embed standard concrete with recycled ferrite particles, which are also able to generate a magnetic field but are considerably cheaper. The company claims its product can achieve transmission efficiency of up to 95 percent and can be built at “standard road-building installation costs.”

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Let Your Car Power Your Home

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

If you own an electric vehicle, you might one day be able to transfer excess power from your car built up while you drive to your home.

Energy stored in electric car batteries could power your home or stabilise the grid — and save you money

From www.abc.net.au
2021-08-09 15:00:00

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The service is called V2G, or “vehicle to grid”, and it could be an important component of Australia’s electricity grid in coming years, plus a way for car owners to make a little extra income.

The concept is fairly straightforward: electric vehicles (EVs) are essentially very large batteries on wheels. Most of the time they sit idle.

With V2G, the batteries in parked EVs are hooked up to a special “bi-directional charger” and coordinated through a central server to export power to the grid during periods of high demand (namely, the evenings, when people turn on appliances).

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Is AI Beginning to Perform Cognitively By Its Own Initiation?

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks – A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks

From techxplore.com
2021-08-09 11:40:55
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A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks efficiently.

By examining MRI data from a large Open Science repository, researchers reconstructed a brain connectivity pattern, and applied it to an artificial neural network (ANN). An ANN is a computing system consisting of multiple input and output units, much like the biological brain. A team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute trained the ANN to perform a cognitive memory task and observed how it worked to complete the assignment

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Light Could Make Your Skin Electric

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Team develops technique for printing circuits on irregular surfaces with pulses of light

From techxplore.com
2021-08-09 11:43:20

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Led by Penn State, an international team of researchers has developed a low-cost, low-heat transfer technique that can print biodegradable electronics on a variety of complex geometries and, potentially, human skin. They published their findings today in Materials Today.

“We are trying to enable direct fabrication of circuits on freeform, 3D geometries,” said Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Penn State’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM). “Printing on complicated objects can allow a future Internet of Things where circuits can connect various objects around us, whether they be smart home sensors, robots performing complex tasks together, or devices placed on the human body.”

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Glue Tournequet Could Stop the Bleeding of Even Gaping Wounds

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly. A new adhesive that mimics the sticky substance barnacles use to cling to rocks may offer a better way to treat traumatic injuries.

From mit.edu
2021-08-09 13:16:44
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Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed a strong, biocompatible glue that can seal injured tissues and stop bleeding.

The new paste can adhere to surfaces even when they are covered with blood, and can form a tight seal within about 15 seconds of application. Such a glue could offer a much more effective way to treat traumatic injuries and to help control bleeding during surgery, the researchers say.

“We are solving an adhesion problem in a challenging environment, which is this wet, dynamic environment of human tissues. At the same time, we are trying to translate this fundamental knowledge into real products that can save lives,” says Xuanhe Zhao, a professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior authors of the study.

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