Moravec‘s Paradox

Show notes On the podcast this week, Canadian Musician Editor-in-Chief Mike Raine is joined by Audioshake Co-Founder and CEO Jessica Powell. Audioshake is a new company that’s using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to “demix” songs, essentially taking a finished track and deconstructing it into high-quality vocal and instrumental stems that…

For the athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, travel entailed … robots. Everywhere. These machines prepared and served noodles, rice and burgers, and roamed hallways to take the temperatures of passersby. They even passed the Olympic flame underwater. Yet even if you’re not an Olympian, your travels these…

20th Television The band is fully back together as John DiMaggio is officially set to return as the crass robot Bender for the “Futurama” reboot on Hulu. DiMaggio has closed a deal to reprise his iconic role along with other minor characters in the series – ensuring the entire original…

Researchers have demonstrated bio-integration of organic electrochemical neurons with cells of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) to induce lobe closure upon input stimuli. Their results may have implications for the future development of brain-machine interfaces and soft robotics. The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). Image credit: Naokivin1978. “Neuromorphic bioinspired electronic devices…

Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have created an artificial intelligence tool to help identify hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis.   Their findings, outlined in a study published in JAMA Cardiology, could make it easier to detect and treat heart disease.   "These two heart conditions are challenging…

Brains contain maps of the bodies they inhabit, with neurons dedicated to the perception or control of particular parts—and research suggests there may be quite a bit of wiggle room in that representation. In 2016 scientists set up an experiment that made subjects fleetingly feel like they had a sixth…

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What do birds get up to at night? It was a simple question that puzzled scientists for hundreds of years. There were wild theories that birds went underwater, or immersed themselves in mud. In the 19th century, a German stork was found with an African spear through its neck, providing…

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Baroness rides a tanked-up Megatron in a new Hasbro release.Image: Hasbro Though Hasbro has yet to let the incredibly malleable world of Transformers really shine on the big screen, the opposite is the case on toy shelves. We’ve seen Transformers figures mash-up with Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Top Gun,…