Stjärnstoft Curiosity #5: Space mission to save humanity, CRISPR babies & AI discoveries
By: André Hedetoft
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Space Exploration, Biotechnology, Games, CRISPR

Welcome to Stjärnstoft Curiosity #5

This week’s roundup of the best in Artificial Intelligence, Future of entertainment, Human evolution, and New cutting edge technology that we at Stjärnstoft Studios are curious and fascinated by.

Artificial Intelligence:

AI is Industrializing Discovery “One of the defining characteristics in an industrial revolution is the fundamental shift from a bespoke, artisan process to an industrialized, engineerable, repeatable one. We are in the middle of a revolution driven by AI and machine learning that is industrializing discovery itself.” — André

Can We Use Machine Learning To Generate Text Adventure Stories? “An exploration of training a neural network to generate a backstory for my unfinished text adventure game.” — LOI

New AI Systems Are Here to Personalize Learning “Automation could displace 75 million jobs by 2022, while at the same time creating 133 million new roles. If employees can’t be retrained quickly for jobs in the changing economy, society is likely to face some degree of turmoil.” — Ulf

Future of entertainment:

How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real “Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to a strange new world: the present.” — Ulf

How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games “ One of the more extreme randomizers out there actually combines two games in a way that makes you have to beat both over the course of a single playthrough. In the Super Metroid x Link to the Past Randomizer mod, you use special randomized doorways to navigate between the worlds of Hyrule and Zebes, collecting items in one to help you progress further in the other.” — LOI

Future of humanity:

Scientists Are Contemplating a 1,000-Year Space Mission to Save Humanity “Perhaps without the Luna there would be no NASA, no Apollo mission, no Mars rover. Without these leaps of imagination, without speculating about what the future could be before we get there, we never arrive at anywhere different to the present. And maybe, one day a man or woman on a distant planet will look back at this research, antiquated as it will seem, and say the same.” — André

How to Engineer Biology “Engineers at NASA in 1962 could perhaps imagine going to the moon, but how would they even start? The short answer: By breaking the problem down into parts, and then breaking the process down into steps. And then by having versions (to borrow from the analogy of software). It wasn’t Apollo 1 that went to the moon, but Apollo 11. Put together, those steps created the stuff of dreams.” — LOI

China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research “Earlier this year a source sent us a copy of an unpublished manuscript describing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, born last year in China. Today, we are making excerpts of that manuscript public for the first time.” — Ulf

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