AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning

Tag: nanopeople

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A nanoscale landscape, peopled with little pillars.  Each of these would fit easily inside a single cell.  They were created out of semiconductor (the same sort that can be made into lasers), when a high-energy plasma ate away everything that wasn’t protected. Each little pillar has a cap on
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This one looked to me like a line of people, standing at attention.  It’s actually an edge-on view of a comb-like grating structure, seen here as it passes between two rectangular alignment markers.  The people-like shape is due to the weird way the plasma etcher ate away the semiconductor,
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Standing at the edge of the world. At microscopic scales, even a clean break isn’t very clean - this electron microscope picture is of the edge of a piece of glass, on which I had fabricated a long wall of semiconductor (the long columned wall you see at the
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I have somehow created nanopeople.  Their heads are made of laser material and their bodies are made of silicon, which means there’s a remote chance that some of them could be lasers.  They’re each so small (300nm high) that a normal bacterium would appear to them like a
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