What If We Created a Superintelligence
We heard the warnings. But we didn’t listen. Now, we live in a world controlled by artificial intelligence. How did we let this happen? Will we able to survive? And is this the end of the world? The days with AI like Siri and Alexa, that made our lives better are now over. We no longer control AI in fact, … Continue reading
Chinese Military Uses AI to Track Rapidly Increasing UFOs
By Stephen Chen via South China Morning Post Headline Image: Shutterstock As the Pentagon prepares its report into UFOs, due later this month, Chinese military researchers have turned to artificial intelligence to track and analyse the increasing number of unknown objects in China’s airspace. To the People’s Liberation Army, they are “unidentified air conditions” – a phrase which echoes the … Continue reading
AI Can be Trained to Manipulate Human Behavior and Decisions, According to Research in Australia
It’s happening and we can’t stop it, we’re actually helping to make it happen, a ‘vicious’ cycle. via RT: Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers in Australia have demonstrated how it is possible to train a system to manipulate human behavior and decision-making, highlighting the double-edged sword that is modern high tech. AI now pervades the vast majority of contemporary human society … Continue reading
Why Superintelligent A.I. Will Be Unstoppable
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? (lol) You may need to watch the video before you find that a little funny 🙂 Artificial intelligence… will it eventually give us [humans] a taste of our own medicine of our superiority complex? An awesome bonus: ‘Information hazard’, it’s not as innocent as it may sound, watch … Continue reading
Unstoppable AI? Scientists Conclude there Would be No Way to Control Super-Intelligent Machines
By Chris Melore via Study Finds From self-driving cars to computers that can win game shows, humans have a natural curiosity and interest in artificial intelligence (AI). As scientists continue making machines smarter and smarter however, some are asking “what happens when computers get too smart for their own good?” From “The Matrix” to “The Terminator,” the entertainment industry has … Continue reading
Beethoven’s Unfinished 10th Symphony to be Completed by Artificial Intelligence
A team of musicologists and programmers will use artificial intelligence to complete German composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony by next year to mark the 250th anniversary of the famous musician’s birth. Starting from just a few notes that Beethoven had written in a notebook before his death in 1827, researchers plan to use computer software combined with artificial … Continue reading
‘Short Window’ to Stop AI Taking Control of Society, ex-Google Employee Warns
Meredith Whittaker warns we are becoming lab animals in a giant tech experiment. The big news in tech this week is the announcement that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as executives of parent company Alphabet, founded in 2015 with the goal of making it “cleaner and more accountable”. Page and Brin said it was time … Continue reading
“HAL” A.I. System Being Built by NSA, Facebook Developing Brain-Machine Interface
“Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the most memorable character, HAL 9000, having a conversation with David. We are essentially building this system. We are building HAL.” – NSA researcher In a little noticed bombshell report by James Bamford in 2009, it was revealed that the NSA’s massive database of information, including social media, was being used to create … Continue reading
In Order to Prevent Robot Apocalypse We Must Study Machine ‘Behavior’
Experts have been warning us about potential dangers associated with artificial intelligence for quite some time. But is it too late to do anything about the impending rise of the machines? Once the stuff of far-fetched dystopian science fiction, the idea of robot overlords taking over the world at some point now seems inevitable. The late Dr. Stephen Hawking issued … Continue reading
Five Things AI Started Doing All on its Own That Will Creep You Out
Artificial intelligence has been the bogeyman of science fiction since before it even existed for real. But while humanoid robots are still very much a work in progress, AI research keeps making big advances quietly behind the scenes. And it’s absolutely starting to get weird. 5. An AI Learned To Half-Ass Its Work, Then Lie About It It’s nice to … Continue reading
