By Devin Coldewey@techcrunch

An in silico playground for creatures that learn, mutate, and evolve establishes the importance of morphological intelligence and suggests a new way to optimize embodied AIs.

Which company aims to help install 40,000 more destination chargers?

Bastian Stark agreed to add MGs to the dealership in north Bavaria where he is general manager. He sold three hybrids before even putting up a sign.Credit...Felix Schmitt for The New York Times

By Esther Ajao, News Writer

Amruta Pai, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ashutosh Sabharwal

I think my career shows that you can do a lot with a physics degree – and the things you do can be very varied.”

So many of Google’s technology developments have had major impacts in the commercial world but the company’s impact on scientific computing has been far less pronounced. Teams at the search engine giant are trying to bridge that gap by creating software tools that blend the best of two worlds — traditional numerical simulations and modern machine learning.

Our brains recognize patterns. When we see an animal, we can identify the image in a flash, instantly matching size, shape, and past experiences with similar creatures through a complex series of neuronal connections to arrive at a classification. Thus, we know a gorilla from a greyhound. In 1979, Kunihiko Fukushima designed an artificial multi-layered neural network with learning capabilities that could mimic the brain’s visual network, an insight that has become the basis of modern artificial intelligence technology. Fukushima’s work bridging electrical engineering and neuroscience has led to an array of practical applications from self-driving cars to facial recognition, from cancer detection to flood prediction, with many more to come. 

The popularity of self-driving cars or autonomous cars or driverless cars is increasing day by day. Just imagine a city with such cars dropping and picking people, there would be no hustle looking for parking spaces, getting traffic tickets, or no need for multiple cars per household too. Isn’t that amazing? And so the self-driving car trends in 2022 are even more exciting!

By Lachlan Colquhoun