Elon Musk’s Neuralink to livestream special project update on July 16

Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the venture working to bridging the gap between potential superhuman artificial intelligence (AI) and the human brain itself, is finally providing an update on the research it’s been doing since its formation in 2016. The event will take place on July 16th in San Francisco for a select audience, and a live stream will be provided as well, according to the company’s official Twitter account.

“We’re having an event next Tuesday in San Francisco to share a bit about what we’ve been working on the last two years, and we’ve reserved a few seats for the internet,” the company posted. “It will also be livestreamed, for those who don’t have the chance to come!”

An update on Neuralink’s research activity was teased in September last year by Musk during a live interview. “I think [Neuralink will] have something interesting to announce in a few months that’s at least an order of magnitude better than anything else, probably better than anyone thinks is possible,” he revealed.

https://www.teslarati.com/neuralink-project-demo-event-livestream-july-16/

Could Neuralink Lead To The Technological Singularity?
https://interestingengineering.com/could-neuralink-lead-to-the-technological-singularity


The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.1548.pdf


The 7 Basic Rules of Quantum Mechanics
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/the-7-basic-rules-of-quantum-mechanics/

OUR REALITY COULD BE A “HOLOGRAM” CREATED BY QUANTUM PHYSICS

Ever since Einstein posited that space and time were inextricably linked, scientists have wondered where the cosmic web called spacetime comes from.

Now, ongoing research in quantum physics may finally arrive at an explanation: A bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglement could be the underlying basis for the four dimensions of space and time in which we all live, according to a deep dive by Knowable Magazine. In fact, in a mind-boggling twist, our reality could be a “hologram” of this quantum state.

Quantum Realm

When two particles are able to simultaneously and instantaneously react to one another despite being separated by vast differences, they’re said to be entangled. But according to the rules of spacetime, that would mean the particles sometimes send communications faster than the speed of light — seemingly pitting quantum physics against the speed of light, which is the universe’s speed limit.

“But they actually don’t send any message at all,” wrote Tom Siegfried in Knowable, citing a year’s worth of physics research published in the journal Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics by Harvard researcher Brian Swingle. “So how do entangled particles transcend the spacetime gulf separating them? Perhaps the answer is they don’t have to — because entanglement doesn’t happen in spacetime. Entanglement creates spacetime.”

Fuzzy Physics

The math behind this idea is dense and complicated, but if you zoom out, the idea is that the math that describes the four dimensions we experience — length, width, depth, and time — is the same as the math underlying a three-dimensional quantum state.

It’s comparable to how a two-dimensional image projects a three-dimensional hologram, according to the research article, which concedes that these are still untested hypotheses.

“But it could be that physics is on the brink of peering more deeply into nature’s foundations than ever before,” writes Siegfried, “into an existence containing previously unknown dimensions of space and time.”

READ MORE: A quantum origin for spacetime [Knowable Magazine]

A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism

The 15-puzzle asks players to slide numbered tiles around a grid. When the numbers are replaced by the spins of electrons, the puzzle can be used to explain how permanent magnets work.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-childs-puzzle-has-helped-unlock-the-secrets-of-magnetism-20190124/

Five Machine Learning Paradoxes that will Change the Way You Think About Data

https://towardsdatascience.com/five-machine-learning-paradoxes-that-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-data-e100be5620d7