Recently an AI defeated human champion at a video game called Gran Turismo, AI defeating human is probably something you might heard of everyday, since AI’s learning mechanism is way better than us human, there is one thing that AI was lacking is humanity, but from winning Gran Turismo, it may alter this fact.

“To hurtle around a corner along the fastest “racing line” without losing control, race car drivers must brake, steer and accelerate in precisely timed sequences.” (2022, Sophie Bushwick) seems easy for AI to get familiar with, since they can simulate over and over again to find the optimum angle or timing, but there is one thing need to point out is that if driver catch up with another driver with an uncomfortable way, whoever try to pass its opponent should give up its position, “uncomfortable way” is something hard to explain, sounds like something only human brain would understand, yet AI figure it out and beat human champion, this news could be a breaking point for AI, also could be a warning to us. Till today, AI beats us possibly every single industry field, the most important one I think is the DARPA Alphadogfight, on 20^th august 2020, AI defeated human F-16 jet fighter, AI was able to shoot accurately while doing crazy high dynamic maneuvers, and AI could endure more G-value without passing out, so will we stop making end-game human extinguisher? Or should we be more careful about what we are working on

AI Defeats Human…again. This time there was no contest, AI was… | by Richmond Alake | Towards Data Science

AI Outraces Human Champs at the Video Game Gran Turismo – Scientific American

Various industries been changing every day, some might be groundbreaking some may not, but for battery industry, the evolutionary pace seems quite slow, make it bigger carries more charge, make it more isolated from cold or hot temperatures makes it safer, and environmental crisis gets more and more serious ever since, back in industrial evolution, sky was dark, filled with ashes and dust, nobody cares about environment, but now the main topic of nearly everything is about sustainability, so does batteries.

Besides environmental crisis, we also facing the problem that lack of resources, like lithium, or any other key minerals to feed the demand of manufacturing batteries, “Establishing new mines is an expensive, years-long effort. And mining also creates a host of environmental headaches—such as depleting local water resources and polluting the nearby region with runoff debris—that have led to protests against new mines.”(2022, Jordan Wilkerson), so we recycle batteries, and recently there is a groundbreaking technology related to batteries, “recycled Lithium-ion batteries perform better than new ones” (2022, Jordan Wilkerson), the idea is creating more pores, to increase the exposed surface area, so the void in the middle goes bigger, which leads to more room for cathode crystal to swell slightly as lithium ions squeeze into it, so it charges faster.

Other than lithium-ion batteries, these is a revolutionary invention about batteries, quantum battery, from the study of Dr James Quach, a scientist at the institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide, “the way quantum batteries operate means they could potentially harvest and store light energy simultaneously, providing significant cost reductions compared to conventional solar technologies.”(2022, Anthony Cuthbertson), this technology is completely different from Lithium-ion battery even they end up using in same area, but still the efficiency is vastly different.

So, based on these 2 groundbreaking technologies, which one would you prefer, or which one do you think is the more promising one?

Quantum battery breakthrough paves way for revolution in energy storage (yahoo.com)

Recycled Lithium-Ion Batteries Can Perform Better Than New Ones – Scientific American

New Charging Technique Puts Crumbling Batteries Back Together – Scientific American

Cookies were born from “magic cookies”, a term referred transferring pack of data from places to places without change the content of the pack, and cookie can be seem as repurpose version of “magic cookies”.
Cookies were invented by Lou Montulli, a web browser programmer, he came up with this idea while he was fixing an online store overload, using cookies will enable browsers showing the advertisements you might be interested, and of course cookies can do much more than that, for example, by learning your playlist preferences, your media player will optimize its daily recommendations, and once you start to play the daily recommended playlist, cookies will be more acknowledged your preference by some algorithms, so the media will push even better playlist, but cookie also ruin your experience under some situations, if you somehow skip one song that you like, and you don’t know it’s name, it may never show up in your recommendation list.
Cookie, it can be good and can be bad, but have you ever wondered, what if someone use your cookie to do something bad to you, for example, leaking your personal information, sell your brows histories, sometimes the effectiveness of cookie is scary, a minute ago you were talking to someone on the voice chat, the moment you hang up the phone, the moment your browser start to offer you the whatever object you were talking about through the phone call, isn’t it terrifying? Do we need to protect us from using cookie?
From my perspective, having awareness about the advertisement you looked on each page, and always reevaluate the website, when you were asked if you want to enable cookie for this website.

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/cookies

https://theconversation.com/radicalization-pipelines-how-targeted-advertising-on-social-media-drives-people-to-extremes-173568

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/whats-a-cookie-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-my-privacy-makeuseof-explains/

Battery is something everybody would understand, our lifestyle has been influenced more or less by it, but what is quantum battery, how does it work, what would be the difference between quantum batteries and lithium-ion battery, today I am going to show you guys the answer to these questions and maybe some of them can be a good candidate for you to switch to quantum battery in the future.

The principles of quantum batteries and lithium-ion batteries are completely different, Lithium-ion batteries works based on its chemical reaction and quantum batteries work based on quantum mechanics principles, which means “The Nano-Structured Solid State of matter in which electrons absorb photons and become stable. In this state, particles can hold the energy and remain in the device for an indefinite time.” (2022, Manish Kumar), a downside about quantum batteries is it must be placed in the dark, so it may hold quantum charge, and it must be placed in a close state, so it won’t give up its quantum charge to surrounding environment, and once it is satisfied, it will be no-loss batteries.

Another good reason to switch to quantum batteries in the future is it can be a superabsorption, it is unlike lithium-ion batteries, the bigger the battery is, the quicker it charges, and frankly, it can be charge just by exposing itself under the ambient light in a room, and the charging speed is “related to the square root of the number of batteries lined up together” (2022, Ellen Phiddian).

Here is What You Need to Know About Quantum Batteries. | by Manish Kumar | Predict | Medium

Quantum batteries closer with superabsorption breakthrough (cosmosmagazine.com)

During earlier this year, an invention from the University of Sydney displayed a promising result on Bionic eye implant, and study shows it is a safe and stable long-term biotic implant after a 3-months studying on the implant, it was designed to restore some vision for patients with retina-based degenerative blindness.

The way it works is straight forward, the biotic eye works similar as retina, normally, as a unblind person, parts of our retina convert the incident light source to electrical messages, and retina sends those electrical messages to the brain, so we can see, and our retina failed to convert light source to our brain, due to some type of retinal diseases, we go blind, and that is how majority people goes blind these days.

As I mentioned above if retina failed to convert light source to electrical messages so our brain could understand, the implant will bypass damaged retina and the camera in the front will transmit visual scene through the skin to a module receiver using a set of stimulation instructions, and eventually, blinded people could see again.

On 01/20/2022, a 88-year-old woman from UK successfully finished her implant surgery in Moorfield Eye Hospital, the surgery is mainly about inserting the 2-mm microchip in the center of her retina, and after the surgery is done, the patient then wears special glasses with a special camera installed in front of the glasses, and whatever the camera captures, it will transmit the signal to the computer on her waistband, and using artificial intelligence algorithms to focus the main object in the image.

In conclusion, I think this technology is ground-breaking, yet it needs to minimize the physical size of glasses, or more importantly, having it more mature, I believe nowadays, people will not be too comfortable having a artificial device replace our own organs, unless it is the only choose, imagine if some day, this technology is so mature and advanced, people would rather using artificial device than what we can naturally, would it be terrifying?

Source:

Revolutionary sight-restoring bionic eye will soon be tested in humans (bgr.com)

Bionic eye implant helps blind 88-year-old to see – BBC Science Focus Magazine

Bionic eye implant enables blind UK woman to detect visual signals | Blindness and visual impairment | The Guardian

Moorfields Eye Hospital gives woman, 88, bionic eye implant – BBC News