Unexpected (and Amazing) Breakthroughs

Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 11:30 p.m.

b"Phil and Stephen review some truly surprising developments in science and technology.\\n\\nGoogle Brain chief: AI tops humans in computer vision, and healthcare will never be the same\\n\\n\\u201cIn 2011 their error rate was 26 percent,\\u201d says Jeff Dean, chief of the Google Brain project, which along with other tech giants has helped lead a recent revolution in image recognition as well as speech recognition and self-driving cars. Now, he says, computers\\u2019 ability to view and analyze images (pictured) exceeds what human eyes can do.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nScientists create world's first 'molecular robot' capable of building molecules\\n\\nScientists at The University of Manchester have created the world's first 'molecular robot' that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules.\\n\\nThe tiny robots, which are a millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo, using a tiny robotic arm.\\n\\n\\nScientists Just Used Gene Editing to Remove a Fatal Blood Disorder From Human Embryos\\n\\nA team of researchers from Sun Yat-sen University have used gene editing to correct a potentially fatal blood condition. This world-first accomplishment represents the first step to a future where we literally edit disease out of our bodies.\\n\\n\\nElon Musk is aiming to land spaceships on Mars in 2022\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nAlso see here\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nThe hard-charging tech mogul said his rocket company, SpaceX, aims to land at least two cargo ships on the Red Planet in 2022 in order to place power, mining and life support systems there for future flights.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWT 353-662"