"‘One of the reasons I don’t like the discussions about superintelligence is that they’re a distraction from what’s real,’ says Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, …
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"We found that half of the activities people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated using current technology. The most automatable activities involve data collection, …
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"‘Our goal is to send the machine to attend the college entrance examination, and to be admitted by key national universities in the near future,’ said Qingfeng Liu, Iflytek’s chief executive. The …
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"Kosinski and his team tirelessly refined their models. In 2012, Kosinski proved that on the basis of an average of 68 Facebook ‘likes’ by a user, it was possible to predict their skin color (with 95 …
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" In Switzerland, at least, that matter is settled. Xapo has received 'conditional approval' for running its bitcoin wallet service from the country. It'll have to participate in a self-regulatory …
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"Perhaps the scariest part is that, one day soon, this sort of technology will transcend beyond the academies and institutions to the point where you or I will be able to create fake digital clips as …
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"Google kicked 200 publishers off one of its ad networks in the fourth quarter, partly in response to the proliferation of fake news sites. The company banned the publishers from its AdSense network, …
"Take what US Border Patrol agents call ‘remote control.’ This is a border crossing tactic in which polleros guide pollos across the border over the phone. The polleros relay the instructions in …
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"Japan on Tuesday launched its first military communications satellite to boost the broadband capacity of its Self Defence Forces as they reinforce an island chain stretching along the southern edge …
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"Photos taken in Mosul, Iraq, appear to show grenade-dropping drones used against the Iraqi security forces. The improvised weapons consist of a plastic tube attached to a consumer camera drone to …
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