The news I love to blog about!

Incredibly exciting news. News that reaches me on a very personal level. This news - news of an intelligent, problem solving robot at Aberystwyth in the UK has reached my ears.



I know very little about the project, I do know that it has worked and isolating gene's and their functions in brewers yeast. The advantage to the automation is that it could carry out 1000 individual gene experiments a day, deriving information from a massive encyclopedia of varied samples gene mutations in the yeast.

The noted discovery in the article from New Scientist explains that the robot dubbed ADAM had identified several genes and hypothesized which 3 encode an enzyme important in producing the amino acid lysine - it was tested by humans and was accurate.

Although this is on a small scale, and the experiments were part of a series, the robot was still able to guide the direction of new experiments it performed from what it new in the previous set of experiments. A learning system. The incredible efficiency of this new intelligence is increasing so rapidly. The tools that will be available to us in 5 years, 10? It's unimaginable.

The Prof. at Cambridge who's quoted in the article imagines "robots may even be capable of conducting truly independent research".

I postulate that the December 12, 2012 doomsday prediction will be the advent of machine intelligence. When I search for 'Artificial' on 2012predictions.net I find nothing. When I Google predictions that early very few items can be found.

At any rate we are on track to have it sooner than we realize.


The other thing from today's news I wanted to talk about is the unanimous approval and submission of an immediate press release from a company called VisionCare discusses a new form of micro technology lens design. This company, according to their website, have tested this in 200 clinical trials.

More and more proof everyday that we are the ultimate, evolving species.