Flippy rings the bell to close the NYSE, theories abound as Forbes reports that NASA “discovered” a rectangular iceberg, Wapo uses broad brushes to associate Christians & conspiracy theorism, DARPA’s super soldier plan goes public via The Atlantic & a Nephilim Update!   AGG for the WEEK of Oct. 16 - Oct. 22 YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS! (Updates on stories) ‘We'll have space bots with lasers, killing plants’: the rise of the robot farmer | Environment | The Guardian Establishing an AI code of ethics will be harder than people think - MIT Technology Review   CAREER ADVICE BASIL WAS RIGHT ABOUT Blockchain engineers are now paid the same as experts in AI - Neowin   TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI OH MY! Artificial Intelligence In Enterprises - Businesses Are Waking Up You Have No Idea What Artificial Intelligence Really Does – Futurism Predictions for the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Analytics Insight The rise of Artificial Intelligence and impending takeover - Livemint The Rise Of The (Self-Replicating) Machines What If AI Can Make Us More Human In The Age Of Robotic Automation? Anki Vector review: Big on heart, not on smarts | VentureBeat Hive CEO Kevin Guo interview on human-powered AI - INSIDER Deloitte survey looks at the biggest risks of artificial intelligence - Business Insider This AI can search for people by height, gender, and clothing in surveillance videos Opinion | Beware the dark side of Artificial Intelligence - Livemint Artificial intelligence — Who is responsible for the outcomes? AI changing the way scientists carry out experiments Scientists Help Robots 'Evolve.' Weirdness Ensues | WIRED Robots! A fantastic catalog of new species / Boing Boing Automation is democratizing experimental science - Axios Boston Dynamics robot dog twerking to SexyBack will rattle your soul - CNET Postman, shopper, builder: In Japan, there's a robot for that - Tech News | The Star Online Japanese unicorn promises 'robots for everyone' in 5 years - Nikkei Asian Review Groundbreaking Moment as a Robot Closes the NY Stock Exchange | Machine Design The truth about robot cats and dogs: can they replace real pets? | South China Morning Post   ART-ificial INTELLIGENCE (AI in the arts) Christie’s, Trying to Be Relevant, Puts AI Art on the Block - The New York Times DeepMind's Eerie Reimagination of the Animal Kingdom This is what AI looks like (as sketched by AI) | ZDNet Do androids dream of electric beats? How AI is changing music for good | Music | The Guardian ai: From Agriculture to Art — the AI wave sweeps in - The Economic Times   CRYPTOCURRENCY AND B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I. - The New York Times   BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM The Biotech Innovation That Will Transform Society Has Arrived (Hint: It's Not CRISPR) University choice and achievement partly down to DNA DNA Tests Don't Prove Elizabeth Warren is Native American: Why Native American Is Not a Race Elizabeth Warren’s pointless DNA test: Why genetic heritage is irrelevant to identity and politics | Salon.com What to Make of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test - The Atlantic Just about everything you’ve read on the Warren DNA test is wrong - The Washington Post After Warren proves Native American ancestry, Trump pretends he didn’t make $1M charitable offer – ThinkProgress Elizabeth Warren Falls for Trump’s Trap—and Promotes Insidious Ideas About Race and DNA | The New Yorker Geneticists Criticize Use of Science by White Nationalists to Justify ‘Racial Purity’ - The New York Times White-people-only DNA tests show how unequal science has become - MIT Technology Review Genes linked to being gay may help straight people get more sex - MIT Technology Review Want To Know When You'll Die? UCLA Scientist Decodes Lifespan, Learns Exercise Is Bull*hit | Zero Hedge 'Backdoor' eugenics: Are IVF and gene therapy an asset for humanity, or an ethical threat? - RN - ABC News Designer babies aren’t futuristic