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Wednesday, 05 April 2023 03:21

AI expert warns: ‘Literally everyone on earth will die’

An artificial intelligence expert is warning America that Elon Musk and others’ proposal to halt AI technology for six months is not nearly enough. Eliezer Yudkowsky, a decision theorist at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute with more than two decades of experience studying AI safety said Musk and other understated the “seriousness of the situation.” Yudkowsky said that he would take the moratorium further, implementing a halt of AI production that is “indefinite and worldwide.” Yudkowsky’s suggestions appeared in an op-ed in which he warned that “literally everyone on Earth will die” if tech companies don’t put an end to…

Tuesday, 04 April 2023 03:31

Drone-on-drone combat in Ukraine marks a new era of aerial warfare

In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat. These aerial duels don’t involve bullets, missiles or bombs. In some, hobby-type camera quadcopters that are used to spy on enemy positions simply ram each other in a crude aerial demolition derby. In other encounters, highly sophisticated craft use advanced radar—backed by artificial intelligence and the latest aerospace engineering technology—to precision fire nets that snag other drones. “This is something we haven’t seen before,” says Caitlin Lee, who leads the Center for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Autonomy Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies…

Tuesday, 04 April 2023 03:29

Inside the AI ‘arms race’: How Google is combating AI language generators like ChatGPT

While it's fascinating to witness the intensifying arms race between AI-powered language generators like ChatGPT and Google (and make no mistake – that's exactly what's happening), my thoughts keep turning to those of us caught in the middle. We, the content producers, businesses relying on search engines for web traffic and customers looking for reliable information, we all have questions. And one question in particular: Will this fundamentally change how we work, learn, create and interact on the internet? ChatGPT (like other natural language generators) poses a significant challenge – a significant threat – even to Google. As ChatGPT's writing…

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:29

I gave ChatGPT an IQ test. Here's What I discovered

ChatGPT is the first nonhuman subject I have ever tested. In my work as a clinical psychologist, I assess the cognitive skills of human patients using standardized intelligence tests. So I was immediately intrigued after reading the many recent articles describing ChatGPT as having impressive humanlike skills. It writes academic essays and fairy tales, tells jokes, explains scientific concepts and composes and debugs computer code. Knowing all this made me curious to see how smart ChatGPT is by human standards, and I set about to test the chatbot. My first impressions were quite favorable. ChatGPT was almost an ideal test…

Sunday, 26 March 2023 04:07

Robots are replacing humans in the last place you'd expect, and it's terrifying experts

Artificial intelligence has infiltrated several aspects of humanity in the last few years. But technology may have crossed the line in India, where a robot is performing a prayer ritual. While some feel that the robotic change highlights innovation, leading to the betterment of society, others are worried that the incorporation of artificial intelligence into religion is a bad omen for the future. The first time a robot was introduced into Hinduism was in 2017. At the time, a technology firm developed a robotic arm to perform an aarti. During the prayer, light (in the form of a small lamp)…

Saturday, 25 March 2023 04:16

New mobile app can detect alcohol, cannabis impairment in 30 seconds using facial recognition

The latest in a rapid trend towards AI-powered tools, Predictmedix has announced the production of a mobile app that can detect alcohol and cannabis impairment using speech recognition and “multi-spectral imaging.” AI-powered facial recognition is coming to the world of breathalyzers. Though the technology is still ill-defined, there are some causes for concern. If that mishmash of convoluted buzzwords sounds concerning, then you’re not alone. The new algorithm, which is being designed primarily for law enforcement and healthcare providers, can allegedly identify impaired individuals in under 30 seconds with an over 90% success rate. That’s leaps and bounds better than…

Thursday, 23 March 2023 02:54

This electric plane could be in the sky in just two years

Early customers include Air New Zealand, which aims to start with cargo deliveries and then explore passenger flights. The transition to electric vehicles on the road is well underway. But electrifying aviation is a longer slog, mainly due to battery limitations for long ranges and large loads. The key may be starting with shorter flights. One of the companies striving to electrify aviation, Beta Technologies, announced this week that it’s producing an all-electric plane for regional trips. The model could start to replace jet-engine aircraft for cargo delivery starting in 2025, and could eventually be deployed for passenger flights as…

Wednesday, 22 March 2023 03:46

Google opens AI chatbot Bard to the public with this caveat

Google is rolling out open access to the chatbot Bard, its answer to ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence computer program. The search engine said the “early experiment” makes the generative AI chatbot available for people in the U.S. and Britain starting Tuesday, with more countries and languages to be added at a later date. The announcement was made in a Google blog post written with Bard’s assistance. “We’ve learned a lot so far by testing Bard, and the next critical step in improving it is to get feedback from more people,” the Google blog post reads. The company said it will continue…

Monday, 20 March 2023 03:35

AI develops treatment for an aggressive cancer in just 30 days

Artificial intelligence has developed a treatment for an aggressive form of cancerin just 30 days and demonstrated it can predict a patient's survival rate using doctors' notes. The breakthroughs were performed by separate systems, but show how the powerful technology's uses go far beyond the generation of images and text. University of Toronto researchers worked with Insilico Medicine to develop potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using an AI drug discovery platform called Pharma. HCC is a form of liver cancer, but the AI discovered a previously unknown treatment pathway and designed a 'novel hit molecule' that could bind to…

Saturday, 18 March 2023 01:47

Common cleaning chemical linked to 500% increased risk of Parkinson’s Disease

A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world’s fastest-growing brain condition – Parkinson’s disease. For the past 100 years, trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal, and dry clean clothes. It contaminates the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, 15 toxic Superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and up to one-third of groundwater in the U.S. TCE causes cancer, is linked to miscarriages and congenital heart disease, and is associated with a 500% increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. According to the National Cancer Institute, TCE is present in some household products, including cleaning…

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Wednesday, 15 March 2023 06:06

Microsoft-backed OpenAI starts release of powerful AI known as GPT-4

The startup OpenAI on Tuesday said it is beginning to release a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, setting the stage for human-like technology to proliferate and more competition between its backer Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google. OpenAI, which created the chatbot sensation ChatGPT, said in a blog post that its latest technology is "multimodal," meaning images as well as text prompts can spur it to generate content. The text-input feature will be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and to software developers, with a waitlist, while the image-input ability remains a preview of its research. The highly-anticipated launch…

Tuesday, 14 March 2023 05:48

US weapons captured by Russian military in Ukraine head to Iran for ‘reverse-engineering - Report

Russia has been supplying western-manufactured weapons and equipment captured on the battlefield in Ukraine to Iran, hoping that Tehran might reverse-engineer the technology, a CNN report claimed. The report, citing four sources, claimed that US, NATO, and other Western officials had recorded Russian forces taking control of US-made shoulder-fired weapons, including Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft systems that the Ukrainian army left behind on the battlefield. The sources suggest that Russia has shipped some of these weapons to Iran, probably so the country can disassemble them and examine the technology to produce similar weapons. Ukraine has acquired weaponry worth…

Sunday, 12 March 2023 05:56

Mind-reading AI turns your thoughts into pictures

Artificial intelligence can create images based on text prompts, but scientists unveiled a gallery of pictures the technology produces by reading brain activity. The new AI-powered algorithm reconstructed around 1,000 images, including a teddy bear and an airplane, from these brain scans with 80 percent accuracy. Researchers from Osaka University used the popular Stable Diffusion model, included in OpenAI's DALL-E 2, which can create any imagery based on text inputs. The team showed participants individual sets of images and collected fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans, which the AI then decoded. We show that our method can reconstruct high-resolution images…

Friday, 10 March 2023 05:59

OpenAI cofounder responds to Elon Musk's criticism that ChatGPT is too 'woke': 'We made a mistake'

In response to Elon Musk's criticism of ChatGPT being too "woke," OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman admitted the startup "made a mistake," in an interview with The Information. Musk, an OpenAI cofounder who has since severed ties with the company, has routinely criticized OpenAI for implementing safeguards that prevent the chatbot from producing responses that could be deemed offensive. "We made a mistake: The system we implemented did not reflect the values we intended to be in there," Brockman, who serves as OpenAI's president, told The Information. "And I think we were not fast enough to address that. And…

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