Jeremy Barton is creating an institute to create basic molecular machines. A primary focus is to create basic motors. We need design tools, motors and more. He previously created an group that combined chemistry, physics, surface science to work on positional chemistry. $150 million was not enough. Here are patents related to mechanosynthesis and direct …
There is progress to precisely placing silicon atoms to create qubits for quantum computers. The Kane quantum computer is a proposal for a scalable quantum computer proposed by Bruce Kane in 1998 who was then at the University of New South Wales. Often thought of as a hybrid between quantum dot and nuclear magnetic resonance …
In January, 2022, – The first molecular electronics chip was developed. This achieved a 50-year-old goal of integrating single molecules into circuits to achieve the ultimate scaling limits of Moore’s Law. Developed by Roswell Biotechnologies and a multi-disciplinary team of leading academic scientists, the chip uses single molecules as universal sensor elements in a circuit …
Harvard researchers bring the accuracy, sample efficiency, and robustness of deep equivariant neural networks to the simulate 44 million atoms. This is achieved through a combination of innovative model architecture, massive parallelization, and models and implementations optimized for efficient GPU utilization. The resulting Allegro architecture bridges the accuracy speed tradeoff of atomistic simulations and enables …
Adam Brown (Stanford) and Robin Hanson (George Mason University) talk about some interesting intellectual concepts for the distant futures in the conference video below. Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute, talks about getting to the next level. She highlighted the need for molecular nanotechnology. Leveraging various forms of atomically precise capabilities are starting to reach interesting new …
The 2021 Foresight review of Molecular machines has another contribution from Dr. James Tour. James Tour and Roswell Biotechnologies just commercially released a molecular electronics chip. They attached molecules onto attachments at billions of points on a semiconductor chip. This speeds up DNA, RNA and protein reading by thousands of times and will scale to …
Science Fiction, scenarios and visions of the future often emphasize fears and risks of collapse or depressions. Science fiction usually focuses on civilizations with major problems so that stories have tension and drama. A civilization with scarce resources is also a simple world to understand. Scenarios planners want to look at three to eight scenarios …
Lior Pachter said “Deep Mind AlphaFold (protein folding) results are just markedly different from what a lot of other methods are producing. This is not an incremental improvement.” But protein folding is not solved. Not only is it not even a well-defined statement to say something like that (others have pointed out that there is …
Deep Mind AI predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry out life’s tasks. DeepMind AI will massively speed up drugs for protein-based problems. Deep Mind revealed enough of their methods for others to make use of them. It will only be a …
There are concerns that Technological Singularity and Artificial General Super Intelligence (AGSI) will change the rate of progress beyond human comprehension. There are concerns that humans will be dominated and be at the mercy of true artificial superintelligence. I will say that things are not on track for key details of AI becoming insanely powerful …
Roswell Biotechnologies and IMEC are partnering to develop the first molecular electronics chips for disease surveillance, precision medicine and DNA storage. They are targeting 2021 for commercial molecular electronic chips. In 2018, IMEC and Candence taped out a 3 nanometer precision test chip. IMEC also has onchip fluid sensors and tiny sensors for internet of …